After the plasterwork, Rob amazingly painted the whole upstairs with a primer coat and a coat of paint in less than three days. We were in a hurry to get the upstairs painted because we wanted to install the floor before we were moving in on Nov. 29 - and we had help that week from Lance and Judy who came to spend Thanksgiving break helping us! We ordered carbonized bamboo flooring the week before, and it got to us just in time for installing it Thanksgiving week. Bamboo flooring is said to be more "green" than hardwood floors because bamboo grows much more quickly than hardwood trees (oak, maple, etc). Unfortunately, we were sent three different shades of the bamboo flooring, and had to send back a third of the boxes that were too light. We did get most of the floor installed, however, before we moved in.
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| That's not how it's supposed to look, is it? | |
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| Lance used the crowbar to take up the panels with the three shades |
After the oddly-shaded panels were torn up, we changed direction and started over in the east-west direction. We all took up our posts....
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| My job was to glue the grooves on the tongue-in-groove panels | |
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| Lance hammered the panels into place |
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| Rob secured the panels with the nail gun |
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| Judy was the facilitator passing the panels between me and Lance to speed up the process |
We had some long days, including....
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| Yoga! |
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| Naps! |
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| Love! |
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| Dancing! |
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| And Celebrating! Yes, we have a floor! |
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