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More on the floor

 Sunday

I had one day to get more stuff taken care of before Doug returned. Siggy decided to come along, which was great!

He installed half the oak floor in the master bedroom, including cutting and nailing.




He found this beautiful dragonfly that had gotten trapped in the house.


He installed a couple outlet covers.



We glued in a couple hundred plugs and cut them off flush with the floor.


As with the subfloor two weeks ago, we discovered that we'd used a terrible batch of screws, many of which had already broken; others broke when we tried to sink them a little deeper. Aaargh. Jon pulled a couple hundred screws out and had to drill a few new holes to make up for screws that were sheared off and stuck in place. Next time, huuuuge screws.

Monday

Siggy and Jon nearly finished off the master bedroom floor, leaving the tricky last few rows for Doug.



We fixed a few hundred more screws and installed a few hundred more plugs. Then we cut and installed some splines to fill a big gap in the balcony floor. The upstairs is ready to sand.


Meanwhile Doug was puttying and sanding the first floor.



Having finished preparing the fir floor, Siggy and Jon went to work furring out the stairs for the oak treads and risers. Jon had originally designed the stairs for 1-1/2" car decking steps to match the balcony, but decided later that the fir wouldn't be durable enough for stairs.



 
Tuesday
 
Siggy and I had half a day before Doug was going to begin applying finish, which meant kicking us out of his job site. We spent it installing the rest of the stair tread spacers.
 
The landing also had a "temporary" 3/4" subfloor waiting to be replaced with 1-1/2" car decking. Since we switched to the oak floor, we needed to make the subfloor permanent. We pulled it off, sistered up the joists in the box below, and reinstalled the plywood panels with lots of glue and screws.



That took us to about noon, after which we freshened up the gas in the generator and lawn mower to get them started again, and headed home.

Doug finished up around five, and sent these photos of the first layer of finish applied to the downstairs oak.



Wow. It looks amazing.

Comments

  1. JSeptember 5, 2022 at 9:49 PM

    You guys are killing it. Amazing contributions from Siggy. Sure can't wait to see it.

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  2. JSeptember 6, 2022 at 7:37 PM

    Youzers! Exciting week!

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