Flooring's On!

With less than a month to go before baby Barnhart comes and with the recent flurry of house project posts, I thought it was a fine time to kick it into high gear and get our living room and dining room floor finished up.

The hardwood floor has been living in various stacks ever since we tore it up and painstakingly removed the nails (thanks Rachel and Paul!). The floor has lived on saw-horses under a tarp, in the car tent, in the front porch, and most recently in the garage. It's been in the process of getting cleaned up for about 5 years now. After removing the most obvious defects, we ran the flooring through a planer, hand-scraped all the joints, checked for nails, trimmed the ends, and ran it through the planer once again.


It doesn't take long for planer shavings to fill up the shop vac. Somehow, it still had suction.


Rachel helped run wood through the planer - I shoved it in, she grabbed it and stacked it. We had 2-4 pieces running through at all times and it took a little over an hour for the final planing.


The wood is planed, trimmed and neatly bundled. Within a week it should be acclimated to the house humidity and we'll start nailing it down. More photos to come.

Here's a photo of Rachel with our recently trimmed-out kitchen window. Part of the flooring project will be to clean up our old trim and finish up the living room/ dining room.