Frugal Farm Renovation: floor progress

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

floor progress

So we've been working on installing the bamboo flooring. Er, well, Frugaldad has been doing all the installing. I am really good at holding the other end of a tape measure, though. Here is the room before. Just in case you forgot, this is going to be our dining area for a while, and then we're going to put our kitchen here and turn our old kitchen into a really big dining room.

Before the floor

Here it is after a couple courses were nailed down.

the first couple courses

and a few more courses

the first few courses

after the first day

after the first day

the Frugalbaby has learned to speed army crawl...

chasing his brother

Frugaldad took a day off work and worked on the floor some more and got to here:

after two days worth of work

We think we are really going to love this floor. And have already decided that with kids and pets, we're not going to stress when it gets dinged and scratched.

Every single hardwood and laminate floor brochure I've ever seen has a dog in it. So we had to take this one.

the "dog on the hardwood floor" picture you see in all the brochures...

4 comments:

Evelyn said...: I love it!!!; May 13, 2009 at 8:24 PM
Jess said...: Yay Monique!! It looks awesome!!; May 14, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Aunt Joanne said...: Beautiful floor, Monique--the whole project has really come together well. It will be fun to see the finished product.; May 16, 2009 at 1:25 PM
Michelle Kynaston said...: very cool...i remember doing that to our texas house - don't envy you! What a pain. Glad to see yours is done!; November 3, 2009 at 2:42 PM

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Addition Timeline

sorry this is so outdated...
1/26 Last door installed, plus knobs and locks on both doors
1/12 Supply side of plumbing begun
1/1 Last window installed
12/29 3 basement windows, DWV system plumbed all the way outside the building
12/27 1 more window, some more plumbing
12/24 5 more windows installed
12/22 first 5 windows installed
12/21 windows delivered
12/15 working on plumbing
12/8 French doors installed
11/30-12/1 House wrap done; framing of first floor bathroom and doorway in center wall
11/23-24 More walls framed
11/23 Roof finished
11/17 Stairs finished
11/10 Cliff nearly finished south side of roof; trim and drip edge finished; Frugaldad extended existing plumbing vents through new roof and built landing for basement stairs
11/8 Cliff finished north valley
11/7 Cut stair stringers
11/6 Cliff started on north valley; Frugaldad built stair jigs
11/3 Cliff started roof work; wove south valley and did lots of trim boards and drip edge; Frugaldad framed and tipped up walls on either side of stair opening. Framed east section of center wall
11/1 Moved debris to dumpster, framed east stair wall
10/31 cleanup, chalk lines for interior walls
10/30 Rafter ties, removed rest of siding from outside of house (inside the addition)
10/29 Rafter ties
10/27 Rest of sheathing
10/26 Clean-up
10/22-10/25 Tar paper
10/20 Majority of exterior sheathed
10/19 Roof trusses and decking installed
10/18 Finished top plates of walls
10/17 Dumpster and trusses delivered; debris from demo cleaned up
10/15 Took off shingles for new roof; tar paper
10/13 Tipped up walls; finished subtraction demo
10/12 Demo against house for wall placement
10/11 Exterior walls all framed, trusses are ordered
10/10 Nailed walls together
10/9 Built west walls
10/8 cut lumber for under window openings
10/6 put headers in north and south walls
9/30 to 10/5 Business trip
9/29 Started framing walls
9/28 lumber delivery--studs for framing walls
9/26 Floor decking complete
9/25 Remainder of joists installed
9/22 Concrete shelf completed
9/21 4 parts of concrete shelf laid
9/18 More joists installed
9/17 Majority of floor decking installed
9/15 Floor joists positioned and nailed. First course of floor decking nailed down.
9/14 Another lumber delivery--floor joists and deck. Rim joists positioned.
9/13 Crawl access opening framed
9/12 Crawl access cut for HVAC
9/8 Load bearing wall finished.
9/7 More lumber delivered. Working on building the load bearing wall in basement
9/1 Sill plates installed. Grass is growing.
8/25 Reseeded lawn over the new drainfield.
8/31 First lumber delivered. Started installing sill plates
8/21 Saw cuts made in slab
8/20 Slab and stem walls poured
8/16 Finally passed soil test
8/14 Failed soil test again, took a new sample
8/10 Failed soil test
8/9 Soil sample taken
8/7 Backfill completed, forms off walls
8/6 Start taking forms off walls, backfill begun, window wells installed
8/2 Basement walls poured
7/30 Footings poured for basement
7/23 Basement location excavated
7/20 Demolition of the "subtraction"
7/19-7/20 New drain field installed