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Oct. 6th, 2012 03:24 pmYesterday was Floor Day, and there is in fact a new floor! However:
- The two-man crew showed up at 9:30 AM, looked at the UnFloor for five minutes, left again to go get the plywood for the new subfloor and didn't come back for four hours. Turned out it wasn't their fault, since they'd gotten sent to three other jobs. They were Not Pleased about that, and went at my floor like nobody's business when they got back.
- After the subfloor went down it turned out we had the wrong adhesive, so they had to go get that too, and that took an hour. And then it took half an hour for the right stuff to dry slightly.
- The floor was finally done at 10:45 last night. (I bought the guys a pizza at 7:30 because their four-hour trip hadn't included any lunch.)
- In order to keep the Hairy Beasts out of the way, I had to gate off the living room and stay in there with them (and their food and water and litterbox). The living room gets awfully small after eleven hours or so.
- The kitchen takes up the whole width of the apartment at the far end of the hall, and the bathroom is on the right, next to the kitchen. The floor guys moved the stove out of the kitchen and completely blocked off the bathroom with it. Fortunately the first floor bathroom was available. (I could leave the Hairy Beasts for that long without Snip trying to leap over the gate.)
- After the floor was finally done, we discovered that the back door wouldn't shut because of the new (metal) threshold. This morning we applied to the bottom of the door, in order: sandpaper, a rasp, and a saw. Thereby proving the wisdom of "When in doubt, use a bigger hammer." Opposable thumbs help too, and the door now shuts very nicely. We didn't take it off the hinges because the hinges are under so much paint that it would have been a whole other adventure dealing with that.
After we got the door dealt with, we hooked up the washing machine again and vacuumed the leftover grout particles off the floor, and I cleaned the sink (which also had grout in it) and moved most of the furniture back in. There's still a butcher block shelf in my office, but it goes next to the stove and I have to wait for the plumber to come reconnect the stove. I almost don't care, because everything else is back where it belongs and I'm on my second load of laundry and the floor is wonderful. And the stove will be working again by dinnertime.
Now I have to clean the rest of the apartment so it holds up to the kitchen...
- The two-man crew showed up at 9:30 AM, looked at the UnFloor for five minutes, left again to go get the plywood for the new subfloor and didn't come back for four hours. Turned out it wasn't their fault, since they'd gotten sent to three other jobs. They were Not Pleased about that, and went at my floor like nobody's business when they got back.
- After the subfloor went down it turned out we had the wrong adhesive, so they had to go get that too, and that took an hour. And then it took half an hour for the right stuff to dry slightly.
- The floor was finally done at 10:45 last night. (I bought the guys a pizza at 7:30 because their four-hour trip hadn't included any lunch.)
- In order to keep the Hairy Beasts out of the way, I had to gate off the living room and stay in there with them (and their food and water and litterbox). The living room gets awfully small after eleven hours or so.
- The kitchen takes up the whole width of the apartment at the far end of the hall, and the bathroom is on the right, next to the kitchen. The floor guys moved the stove out of the kitchen and completely blocked off the bathroom with it. Fortunately the first floor bathroom was available. (I could leave the Hairy Beasts for that long without Snip trying to leap over the gate.)
- After the floor was finally done, we discovered that the back door wouldn't shut because of the new (metal) threshold. This morning we applied to the bottom of the door, in order: sandpaper, a rasp, and a saw. Thereby proving the wisdom of "When in doubt, use a bigger hammer." Opposable thumbs help too, and the door now shuts very nicely. We didn't take it off the hinges because the hinges are under so much paint that it would have been a whole other adventure dealing with that.
After we got the door dealt with, we hooked up the washing machine again and vacuumed the leftover grout particles off the floor, and I cleaned the sink (which also had grout in it) and moved most of the furniture back in. There's still a butcher block shelf in my office, but it goes next to the stove and I have to wait for the plumber to come reconnect the stove. I almost don't care, because everything else is back where it belongs and I'm on my second load of laundry and the floor is wonderful. And the stove will be working again by dinnertime.
Now I have to clean the rest of the apartment so it holds up to the kitchen...
