Allan

And the scraping continues, this time on the second floor in the middle bedroom. The baseboards are all painted white, but they’re nearly impossible to remove without damage, so they’ll have to remain white. We’ve taken the trim boards off of the closet and ran them through the new planer and quarter them with polyurethane (yesterday).  They look good, but now I’ve got to scrape the window frames as well. Dang. All under days work.

We came up with a plan for the living room / dining room opening.  We replaced the framing with 2x6s.  We bought some 2x6s from Lealta and ripped a sliver of wood off.  I’ll sand, stain, and polyurethane them.  They’ll be used as trim rather than adding 1x6s.  I still need to fasten them.  I’ll show you when I’m done.

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The baseboard 1x8s are ready now – routered, stained, and urethaned, so we put them up.  Because the floor is not really level across about 24 feet (7.3m), there were adjustments needed.  It turned out to be easiest to cut them into specific lengths to match the straight parts of the floor.

The rear deck post is fixed now, too.

Floyd and I completed the kitchen floor today. I think it looks really good.

There were some pieces that needed to be cut into odd shapes, but most were simply laid down as-is.

Next: complete the rear entry / laundry room.

I’ve done it now. I’ve covered the floor in glue, and my coffee cup is over there!

Ack!

Next floor is the kitchen. I’m not getting an early start on today, so we’ll see how much can be done.

This took a little longer than I had expected, but the living room and dining room flooring is complete.

Except, that is, for the baseboard trim. But that will have to wait for another day. I’m tired – going home!

Finally, after loads of repair and other prep work, the flooring is being laid.

I’m piecing together the final bit of subfloor not before leveling and glueing the vinyl plank flooring. The home stretch? I hope so.

Floyd is going out for lunch with Terry, so it’s just me for now.

I finally have all I need to complete the flooring., Including the cup of coffee. No, I don’t have the nail gun yet. Still waiting. So I picked up a box of decking screws to finish mounting the proboard.