Hello all. In honor that old TV show, we made a mad dash to install and finish the floor in the kitchen, which adjoins the living room. Five days straight of quality time in close proximity to the ground. Here's what we had to work with--a stack of unfinished yellow pine boards that had acclimated to the house temperature and humidity:
Way back when we were finishing the bulk of the kitchen, we had a flash of foresight. We didn't want to maneuver the refrigerator or oven on the unfinished floor (deep scratching) and had no place to stash them while we did the floor. What to do? We made a platform for each with the pine and finished them. The darker piece was scrap oak that we screwed temporarily in place to act as a straight edge and as a ramp for moving the appliances when the time came.
Next up we prepared the floor with our standard red rosin paper. In the hallway we laid the 3/16-inch luan boards again to match the height of the kitchen. That odd coil/cord in the middle of the kitchen is electricity for an outlet that had been on the original island and will be again. One difference from the prior rooms is that we needed an air compressor-powered stapler to drive into the linoleum.
With that we were ready to nail the boards in place. We made our lives a little harder by deciding that we didn't want a threshold between the kitchen and hall, but some careful planning on where to place boards and which lengths solved that.
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Here's the final floor with its two coats of finish. Contrast that with the living room to the left of the threshold which is still unfinished.
And here's what remains of our initial stack. Good thing we have lots more in the garage for the remaining rooms.
Until next time.
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