Picked up the air-powered flooring stapler on Thursday night. What a huge difference this made!
Got the floor done in the room and it's gorgeous!
I took Friday off work. With one thing and another I got started about mid-day on Friday. Worked until the light and my back gave out on Friday, then a full day on Saturday. At that point I had all the floor down that the air stapler would do. And again, my back was done in. It isn't hard labor with the air tool but most of the time you're bent over, either whacking wood into place or whacking the stapler. Took the stapler back in time to only get charged two days rent. While I was putting down flooring, Alice stained the shoe molding and gave it a coat of polyurethane. Then it was miller time.
Sunday I got the rest of the room floor down, the last four of five strips. I had to use my finish nailers for those, the last two strips only have 1-1/4-inch nails because there wasn't even room for the bigger finish nailer. Finished the day by cutting and installing the shoe molding and the threshold to the hallway.
I got to use my new-to-me radial arm saw. Last October I was having a beer with my neighbor, Paul. Someone he worked with was selling his tools. I got a radial arm saw and a 12-inch planer, both for $175. Paul delivered them when I was out seeing the world and I haven't had a project that needed them yet. I set up the radial arm for 45-degree cuts one direction and the table saw for the opposite. Made it all go very quick, especially around the multiple corners you can see on the right in the picture.
I spent a lot of today reinstalling "the data center". Three computers now up and running.
The rest of the room is mostly empty. We got rid of the love seat and ottoman that were in here. My favorite big ol' comfy chair and ottoman will go in, but it has to be reupholstered. I've also got a half-dozen framed photos from my travels that will go up on the wall above the computers. And the rug that will go back down needs a pad so it doesn't scratch the wood.
I've still got the closet to floor. And I'm going to build in shelves to store our office clutter. But that'll be for another weekend.
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