HGTV Bleah!

So on HGTV, this floor that I have been working on for three months would have been done in four minutes seventeen seconds. Of course, there would have been three or four guys you never see on screen doing all the grunt work. Unfortunately, I’m the grunt-worker. So here goes with a little dose

of reality not seen on tv.

 

    Floor finally finished.  After waiting for two weeks for another carton of flooring to arrive at Home Depot so I could finish, I realized I could complete the last row with some waste pieces.  Hard to see in the picture, but the last 18” are made up of 5 pieces of flooring. 

 

    Now for the door trim and base shoe.  Cut, fit, nail temporarily.  When all the pieces are in place, go back and remove everything.  Prime coat, then paint, and reinstall.  Counter sink the nails, putty the nail holes, cover the putty and a few mars incurred during the reinstallation with a dab of paint.  Done.

 

 

    On to the bedrooms, yes the very same ones where all the stuff was removed for carpet cleaning.  Then put back, now removed again, at least some of it.

 

    Go through the same process of cutting fitting, removing, painting, reinstalling, and touch up.  Put the junk back.

 

                                 During the “drying times”, work on the basement stairway.

 

 

    “’Tis an ill wind that blows no good.”  Here’s one good thing that came out of the floor work.

 

 

     A homely way of keeping the knee pads on the knee and off the shoe tops.  It’s not necessary to have the straps too tight, and it only takes one strap.  And that’s a good thing, Martha, since I’m down to one strap per pad.

    Ideally, the loops should be stitched to the pant leg like belt loops, but knowing not the skill of stitchery, iron-on patches cut into 4” strips worked fairly well, and a little fabric glue aided and abetted when the iron-on stuff turned loose.  I'll bet Thomas Edison would be jealous.

     An enjoyable weekend got off to a good start with a root canal in Ft. Collins on Friday.  Hey, it beats bridge work or plates. 

     Back to the grindstone tomorrow.  One bedroom still needs trim, and there are rain gutters to be installed.  I bet Mother Nature is just waiting for me to get done so she can let it downpour.