It's flooring day!!!

[TBM]

Well, the first day of the flooring installation. I think it will be today, tomorrow, and Monday.

They are being finished on site, so hopefully it will all work out and it will be ready to walk on by Tuesday. The movers are bringing our stuff on Thursday, so our contractor wants to lay down something to protect the surface, then put plywood over it so that the movers don't do anything bad to the floors (they scratched our hardwood at the old house).

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[emoflamingo]

Yay new floors!

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May 9, 2013 9:43:34 GMT -5 emoflamingo said:

Yay new floors!

Actually it is yea floors!..new or otherwise.

We've been living with bare slab and drywall dust for the past couple of weeks. It will be so nice not to have that mess anymore.


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[TBM]

No. That lasted less than a week, and we have been living in a construction zone since.

The flooring guy is whining about the finish coat now and wants us to move out...or do the finish coat ourselves. I think we may do the sanding between the second and third coat, but we can't move out. Even the hotel we stayed at doesn't allow four dogs...they had to get permission because someone had given us wrong information, but it was against policy.

I think we are going to have to postpone the movers too. *sigh*

On a happy note, I do love the floor. It is exactly as I envisioned, even if I can't get a decent photo color wise.



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[bunnymendelbaum]

Exciting! What kind of wood/finish are they?

[munkii]

Is that cork? It's beautiful whatever it is!

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May 9, 2012 20:03:16 GMT -5 heliocentric said:

Checking in.

It's cork! Duro Design cork floor, Edipo, in leather brown. The installers and other contractors keep commenting on how much they like the pattern, and that none of them have ever seen it before.

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[bunnymendelbaum]

( just googled it)
oh I love it!

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Living room pics



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The floor is super dusty. As the guy wipes it off, he lays paper, but they are going to have to vacuum it well before applying the finish.

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[bunnymendelbaum]

So you got rid of the wood stove? or is that a different room?

[heliocentric]

May 9, 2013 11:13:22 GMT -5 TBM said:

May 9, 2012 20:03:16 GMT -5 heliocentric said:

Checking in.

It's cork! Duro Design cork floor, Edipo, in leather brown. The installers and other contractors keep commenting on how much they like the pattern, and that none of them have ever seen it before.

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Why does this quote from me keep appearing in random posts? So weird.

[mrs.jacinthe]

May 9, 2013 14:18:36 GMT -5 heliocentric said:

May 9, 2013 11:13:22 GMT -5 TBM said:

It's cork! Duro Design cork floor, Edipo, in leather brown. The installers and other contractors keep commenting on how much they like the pattern, and that none of them have ever seen it before.

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Why does this quote from me keep appearing in random posts? So weird.

Maybe it's our anniversary gift from Patrick??

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May 9, 2013 14:03:28 GMT -5 bunnymendelbaum said:

So you got rid of the wood stove? or is that a different room?

Yeah...it just ate up too much square footage. We are thinking of using the fireplace in the courtyard.


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[curlygirlygirl]

I hope everything goes smoothly for you! We've been living in our house while undergoing renovations and it's been a month since everything started getting ripped apart. I can't wait to have a "new" house!!! I'm so sick of dust and boxes everywhere

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May 9, 2013 23:05:08 GMT -5 curlygirlygirl said:

I hope everything goes smoothly for you! We've been living in our house while undergoing renovations and it's been a month since everything started getting ripped apart. I can't wait to have a "new" house!!! I'm so sick of dust and boxes everywhere

Pretty much nothing has gone smoothly so far, but we have a new roof that is well insulated and has no hidden damage, and we seem to be okay now. I don't want to jinx it by being over confident at this point.

We are going to redo the kitchen after our old house closes, so I am not fooling myself that having the flooring in will mean no more mess. Actually, getting all of our belongings is going to mean a lot more mess...just different. lol

Hang in there!

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[ssmjlm]

Could you guys find a condo to rent so they can do the finish coats? They tend to be more lenient with pets.

Love the floors and can't wait to see them complete!

[curlygirlygirl]

May 10, 2013 6:03:38 GMT -5 TBM said:

May 9, 2013 23:05:08 GMT -5 curlygirlygirl said:

I hope everything goes smoothly for you! We've been living in our house while undergoing renovations and it's been a month since everything started getting ripped apart. I can't wait to have a "new" house!!! I'm so sick of dust and boxes everywhere

Pretty much nothing has gone smoothly so far, but we have a new roof that is well insulated and has no hidden damage, and we seem to be okay now. I don't want to jinx it by being over confident at this point.

We are going to redo the kitchen after our old house closes, so I am not fooling myself that having the flooring in will mean no more mess. Actually, getting all of our belongings is going to mean a lot more mess...just different. lol

Hang in there!

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We're in the same boat as you.  When they went to pull up the pergo, there was tile under that.  Once they rented the equipment to remove that (at $2 sq. foot...), they found hardwoods under some sections of our floor... it was a mess!

We removed the heinous wainscoting in 2 living spaces (who puts in 5 ft. tall wainscoting?) and found wallpaper behind it. Joy.  They also glued the wainscoting everywhere instead of just using nails, so all of those walls need to be retextured.

This week something was dropped through the ceiling in the kitchen.  At least this is an easy fix!

Our attic space is too cramped, so for our bathroom remodel they had to remove the ceiling in order to run all of the electrical and piping.

It has been a long couple of months!  We figured if we were making a mess we might as well make a mess everywhere, I suppose!