The dining room and living room had this ugly Pergo wood flooring...
The foyer had an ugly black/white spotted tile...
so they all had to go!!
Removing the old flooring took the longest time..
The machine tool didn't work that well on the Pergo flooring,
so we had to manually hammered out every single piece from the slab..
of course, the fact that the wood was glued to the slab didn't help either!
Anyway, we had helpers for this project!!
Handy couple Brian & Andrea came in town to help us out :-)
So, what did we do for the long Labor Day weekend?
We worked on the floor and some other misc. house projects!
We love our new floors!!!
Prep work -
Getting rid of the old flooring was a major b**tch!
Before -
Brian and Doug used the machine tool
and easily removed the old tile in the foyer!
Now all areas are cleaned and ready for new wood flooring :-)
Laying in process -
Once we got the floors ready for laying,
the actual laying of new floors went pretty fast!
Doug was doing the cutting,
Andrea, Brian and I lined and clicked the floors..
Brian also did the measuring!
It worked out really well :-)
Andrea looked like she was having fun laying the floors!
After -
Yay! The floor is done! Looks so nice!
The part that took the longest was when
we had to cut small pieces to fit the door jams,
and ripped the last pieces to fit against the wall!
After -
The boys framed the big windows!
Looks fabulous :-)
It's so great to walk down to finished floors
and see nicely framed windows!
After -
Brian even made the thresholds for us!
We stained them and coated them with polyurethane!
They look and match the new floors great!
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