Friday, November 16, 2012

The Wonder Twins strike again!

 We decided it was finally time to take our old carpet out and put new Bamboo floors in. As usual, there were a few snags along the way. Here is a picture of the first snag we ran into.
 After we pulled out the carpet, we found that we had hardwood floors this whole time! David wanted to tear the hardwood out, but I said we should just leave it. He didn't agree, but I won because they glued the floor down and we couldn't get it out.
 Our second snag was the nail gun we rented didn't work on our floor because Bamboo is too hard. We had it drill oles and then sink the nails by hand on the first three lengths.
 After that, it was smooth sailing the rest of the way.
 We had some help along the way.

 We tried to do most of the work while Nate was in school and AJ was napping.
 Nathan using some of the underlay to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (I know, he looks like a burn victim).
 As soon as we were done Nathan got out his baseball stuff to play ball in the house.


Any time David lies down on the floor, Anderson climbs on for the ride. AJ thought he was doing push-ups and was disappointed when he didn't get a ride.
We are very pleased with how our floor turned out. Not too shabby for two people who have never done any flooring before. Now if only we could find the time to move all the furniture back in from the garage.
 
(One day David was talking to one of his friends about all the projects he and I have done together, and his friend said we are the Wonder Twins.)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The floor looks great! Great job, Wonder Twins!

Aunt Llew

Anonymous said...

I like the floors. If I ever have a house of my own you two can come do projects for me also..
Love,
Heather