A
shot of Jen's finishing work and the
pine
floor.
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Another shot of the
pine.
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But it had to go. The
pine is very soft and the finish kind of thin. We could certainly
get it refinished,
but our plan is to get new hardwood
throghout. It's a good thing too, because
the pine was also
nasty.
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Here's most of the pine up
from the living room. It took a little while, but we got good
at removing it. Each
of us with crowbars in each hand, we could
move pretty fast at prying up the wood and popping ou the
nails. Notice the white spot in the middle of the
wall? There was an open flu for a woodstove that was
never
used. We figured if we were going to use it, we could always cut the
hole out again. In the meantime
it was best to cover
it.
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I tried convincing CJ to
carry all the boards out to the garage. I kept telling him it would
be just like a game
of fetch, but he wasn't
buying
it.
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We got this lawn tractor and
plow with the house. The driveway is nearly four hundred feet long,
so the
plow would come in handy. Unfortunately it was missing
some pieces I had to order. Since it was warm
yesterday, I fixed
it and fired it
up..
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Little less choke next
time.
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We needed the air compressor
to run a special cut-off tool I had. Running the air compressor
required a
220v socket ("220, 221 whatever it takes"), so I
patched one into the main breaker (spaghetti)
box.
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Meanwhile Jen took
down the railing at the top of the stairs and the pine boards lining
the foyer wall. The
plan is the add a half-high wall
in place of the
railing.
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Here's the kitchen
with the pergo floor removed. Underneath is this lovely linoleum
over top of particle
board. All of which has to come up. We're
putting in a different floor in the kitchen and it needs to be at
the subfloor to do so. Unfortunately the cabinets are all
sitting on the old floors. That makes it kind of
difficult to
remove the floors, yet leave the cabinets in
place.
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And finally a bucket-o-nails. These are the
nails from the pine floors. I call them old square head barn
nails. Others may call them masonery nails. Either way, they
were a pain in the ass to get out.
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