Well our animals have done a good job on our carpets… They love to tear up little pieces of the rug, and we’ve been doing an OK job of hiding that with throw rugs… Friday was the end though. We came home from work and found the reminents of a bird all over the floor and the carpet had some new “stains”. They were a mess and not worth cleaning, so we ended up jumping into this project a few weeks earlier than we expected, but oh well…
Holes in the carpet. Here you can see the holes that the animals were putting in the carpet. Sorry about the toes on the bottom… 12mm really is a WIDE ANGLE. There is a lot of extra furniture here because we hadn’t moved it downstairs yet, we were moving it from room to room as we worked in different rooms before we relaized how much easier it would be to move it all downstairs…
Floors under the carpet We tore up all the carpet and were surprised to find “hardwoods” under part of the floor. It’s actually really old (1941) wood subfloors. The wood is in OK shape, but it’s not anything nice enough to finish, and it’s also been screwed down. It’s only in one of the rooms we need to do, the rest are plywood and lenolium, so we have to go over those anyway.
WRX loaded to the “gills” with wood. We both drive small cars. Here you can see my WRX loaded with the wood. Anything short enough to fit sideways in the car went in, all the 5~6′ boards went on the roof. We picked the wood up at lumber liquidators in Boston, so we had to drive 1.5 hours with the car loaded. We bought Canadian maple for $1.99/sq ft.
New wood ready to go. Here you can see the new wood stacked in the “den” ready to go down. We started in the bedroom, and will then do the hallway and den last.
Bedroom 1/2 done. This is what I’ve gotten done so far. Half the bedroom. It’s looking pretty good if I do say so myself. Some gaps, but not bad, and much better than the original hardwoods downstairs.
Bedroom so far. The other “good” thing about this project is that I “needed” some new tools. An Air compressor and nail gun were needed to nail the boards to the floor. Good tools make it a lot easier and faster.
Downstairs Bedroom This is a shot of our downstairs bedroom. It’s got all our crap from all the upstairs rooms in it while we put the wood down. We actually sleeping on our pull out couch until we finish, so that should help motivate me to get finished ASAP.
Finished Bedroom Floor This is a shot of the bedroom with the whole floor installed.
Finished Bedroom Floor This is a yet another shot of the bedroom with the whole floor installed.
Finished Bedroom Floor This is a yet another shot of the bedroom with the whole floor installed.
