Kitchen Hardwood Floors

The floor installers came on Wednesday. That means no walking on the floors.  The problem is all main floors entrances have wood.  Therefore, we had to dig through a foot of snow to get to the back of the house and the bottom floor laundry room.

They installed the 50 square foot section of hardwood near the front entrance, sanded and did the first coat of varnish.  The smell was overwhelming to say the last–plus it’s toxic.  We had to cordon ourselves off to the bottom floor only; we had to open the windows when it was zero degrees to allow fresh air into the basement.  Then we got to sleep in the basement in about 40 degree temperatures on a mattress on the floor–just like camping. Luckily, we planned ahead and brought all the necessities downstairs the day before so we would not be stranded.

Fortunately, we stayed at my mother’s and took Friday off and went on a road-trip.  We will survive, but it certainly is a pain and the house will smell for about  a week.

Written by Nagel on February 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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