Four on the Floor

It's Day Two of flooring installation, and it's going very well. The four installers finished Kathy's room and worked partway into my room and the hallway that connects the two. The boards are pre-finished, so the parts they've completed really are done. There won't be any messy sanding or sealing afterwards.

The toughest part -- for us, at least -- is playing Musical Chairs with all the furniture. When you put down a new floor, everything has to come out of the room. It's like moving to a new house, minus the moving boxes. We had to move almost an entire floor's worth of beds, bookcases, chairs, and other furniture to somewhere.

Fortunately, the installers allowed us to push some things to the  back of the guest room if we promised to move it all again to the other end when they needed to get in there. Deal. It's better than moving bed frames and bookcases down a flight of stairs (and back up again when they're done).

Then there's the dust. Nailing down a floor is pretty clean work, but a lot of the boards need to be cut first, and that makes sawdust. Kathy's room, in particular, needed a lot of cut work because she's located under the "witch's cap" tower of the house, so that part needed a lot of angled cuts.

By the end of the day, the installers estimated they'd need only one more day to finish -- maybe one day and a bit. We'll find out tomorrow how far they get.