New Floor
Last month I finally put down the floor I’ve been talking about for so long. My dad came into Blacksburg just to help me put in the floor (and by help, I mean he did most of the work).
New Floor
Meko surveys the job before we begin
The hallway
Livingroom
Livingroom with the carpet ripped up
Bringing in the tools
We had to rip up the subfloor to get the massive squeaks out. Notice how they hung the drywall for the apartment downstairs (hint: the white strip).
The builders thought no one would ever see. This floor was obviously never inspected due to some obvious code violations.
Because the beams were uneven, the subfloor was uneven so we had to level it with some floor leveler.
And then we put down another subfloor on top of the old one.
Beginning to put down the hardwood laminate flooring.
Meko hid in the bathroom during the sawing, hammering and other loud noises.
Meko voicing his complaints
Hallway laid down.
Put down the quarter round on top of the floor to finish it off.
New hardwood floor meets almost new tile floor.
The cost of it all? Less than $800. Of course labor was free and you’d be looking at 3-4 times that cost for the same work we did.
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July 25th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Looks great Mike. Good thing we have such a nice and talented father!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 26th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
My brother does nice work and he even cleans up after himself
NOW I remember why we’ve never fixed our floors. Nothing is ever easy, surprisingly though, not even in a new house. Imagine what we’ll find when we start dismantling eighty years of…god-knows-what.
Um, has Meko forgiven you yet for all the hoo-hah?
August 10th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
My buddy Meko! I can imagine he voiced his complaints often, and loudly … he’s good at that.
Looks great, nice to have that project done, I’m sure.
August 23rd, 2009 at 9:17 am
Hey Mikey-Mike, I think you need to have some nice TOTALLY finished photos of the flooring project, especially the “transitions” from one flooring type to the other, and explain how a two day project turned into five days of “torture” for your poor father. We actually had a blast and hopefully you learned how to do the next project on your own, or I can “instruct” you through pictures on the blog. We should have taken pictures of the truck, totally “loaded to the gills” with the tools of the trade, to do something very simple as laying a new floor. It’s amazing what you can do with $2000 worth of tools. God bless America. We are going to need it!