ace’s blog

Holy shit that was a lot of work!  The floors look AWESOME!  I can’t believe how well they turned out.  We have a few gaps but so do the floors we had installed “professionally”.  I think we did an awesome job!  The last 1/3rd of the floor gave us a run for our money since we had to go through Aaron’s doorway and then go into his closet.  We ran out of adhesive so I had to buy more of that as well.  We also rented a nail gun to make the quarter-round go a lot faster and damn, that helped.  I was also very pleased at the cuts that I made with my new mitre saw and also the cuts I made with my circular saw that an old coworker let me have. 

I think that whoever buys this house from us is going to be very pleased with the amount of work we’ve done to it!  So far, we’ve painted all but two small rooms downstairs (including the living room and it’s 20-foot ceilings), tore down, had hardwood flooring put down in the living room and we put down hardwood floors in Aaron’s room and the hallway near his room. 

I can’t wait until we get a chance to do our bedroom.  The only way I would pay someone to do hardwood floors for us again is if we had a ton of very difficult cuts.  This room took all day but it makes me feel so proud of the work that Meri and I can accomplish together.  We complement each other so well when we work together.  Doing projects like this really makes me realize how lucky I am to have such a wonderful wife.  Meri’s the greatest!  I just love her to pieces.  She worked her butt off on this project.