This weekend has been very busy!! We ripped up the carpet, pretty easy; then we moved on to the kitchen vinyl flooring. The sheet of vinyl came up ok with a lot of tugging and Jason heating it with his heat gun. The problems began with what was under the vinyl, an extra layer of plywood underlayment which the builder thought needed to be stapled down with at least 2,000 staples (I'm not exaggerating)!! So after we fought the staples and got the plywood up I had to go back and take a sharp hook tool that looks like Jess would use in surgery and get all the little pieces of plywood that was stuck under all those staples. After all that we got to take some frustration out on those staples by hammering them back down with the sledge hammer!! We quickly swept up the dust and Jason started on the tar underlayment for the wood floors which he added another 2,000 staples to our floor! It was a new tool which he had way too much fun with, now I know why there were so many staples in the plywood (cause a man put it in with his little staple hammer)!
And somehow in between all that work Jason worked Saturday and Sunday!! He needs some sleep and food!!
love ya all!!
As you can tell by the pictures we busted some ass on Sunday!! We got almost everything done!! We have maybe 10 more feet on the hallway and then the stairs, which we plan to do next weekend. I guess it just took us a day to get the hang of everything. Plus I helped a lot on Sunday I cut all boards on his new miter saw!! (and I didn't cut any fingers off)!! My rugs came in from Brylane home! which is in the first picture! 3 rugs for 129 which I used a 40% off coupon! what a deal!! And to top everything off on Sunday we stopped by home depot to see what you are suppose to use for doorways with wood floors, we knew they made laminate pieces but had never looked for wood moldings. Well while we were at home depot searching we found that yes they make wood moldings to match the floors great!! well that is it would be great if we would have bought them at the same time as the floor, the floor was 1/2 price and discontinued. If they don't have the moldings no one will!! NOOOOoooooooo! But as we were there trying to find moldings that looked similar Jason picked up and said "huh this is the angliam" (our wood) and I walked down the aisle a little more and found another one whoo hoo 2 more to find. As it so happens I go to the end aisle where they put stuff they try to get rid of and found the 2 we needed which so happens to be the last 2 they had!!!! YES!! They were a little high $26 but we thought they were worth not having to stain!so up we went to the self-check out lane you know the one that talks back to you and makes you feel stupid. Well we rang the first one up and it said ten dollars. thats right 10 dollars!! I was so shocked that we got our floors moldings and all for $1,600 when we had people quote us at $10,000!! Well I will post more as we do more!!
