Mobile Home Goddess

[baymule]

Bay, you are doing a lot better than some professionals I have seen. Maybe you need to take up a new career. (I hope you have knee pads)

I don't kneel, knees are shot, so have to sit on my butt and scoot around. I always need the tool that is just out of reach, so lay down and roll to it, grab and roll back. I am up-down, up-down, up-down-get board, measure, mark, go cut it. The easy ones I can just bend over and, using a hammer with a rubber end, beat them into place, then nail. The hard ones, I plop down and get up close and personal.

 

[baymule]

That's a complicated cut! Good job. DH is a stone and tile guy, and also has done a lot of wood floors. I'm always impressed when he does all those detailed cuts. I think you're doing a swell job Bay!

Thank you! I have never tackled anything like this!

 

[baymule]

The flooring looks BEAUTIFUL and well laid. Good job!

Thanks, I just couldn't make myself get the prefinished flooring. I know I really bit off a chunk of hard work, but I have a picture of the finished floor in my head and it is fabulous.

 

[Lavender2]

Oh wow that looks great! You have never laid wood floor before, and you took on a whole house?!
I agree it will look way better than the prefinished flooring, beautiful job!

I would love a wood floor in my kitchen!

 

[baymule]

So mz diva what all did you get done today? I'm just trying to stay warm.

I've been busy.

 

[Carol Dee]

You ARE the *Mobile Home Goddess.*

 

[Nyboy]

Go Girl looks great !!!

 

[ninnymary]

My goodness bay! That is unbelievable! I don't know how you do it. I can't even change a light bulb. Everything is looking soooooo good. Glad you went for the real thing. There's nothing like real hardwood floors. I need to show this thread and pictures to my husband. I know he'll say "see if she can do it so can you". But I can't. I wouldn't even be able to measure right.

Mary

 

[Nyboy]

Whats great about hardwood is when they start looking beat up, you can sand and refinish them. Can't do that with laminate floors.

 

[baymule]

Whats great about hardwood is when they start looking beat up, you can sand and refinish them. Can't do that with laminate floors.

Not hardwood. It is pine, a soft wood, they will get dinged up and look "lived in". I am going for the look of an old farmhouse--just close your eyes until you get inside.