To start, T took a long weekend from work so that we could try to get our bedroom finished. We had purchased all of the flooring materials a couple of weeks prior so we could be ready to do everything without having to run into town for forgotten material. Unfortunately we had also been talked into buying some stuff that the guy at Home Depot swore we would need for the best possible outcome on our floor. Being new to this whole flooring thing we went along with it and bought what we needed for the room.
The day came to put this liquid underlayment down (it was like quick set concrete). T started pouring out buckets of this stuff and trying to smooth it out before it set and hardened...ha! It became this massive uneven blob on our floor that no amount of smoothing and troweling could level out. Our floor looked and felt worse now than it did before. We both made the decision to say "Screw this" and started chipping it up off the floor. Sadly it came up off the floor faster and easier than it was to put it down. We had wasted an entire day with this stuff and we were no further on our floor. In fact, we were farther behind than when we started because now we had to make sure we got it all up, vacuum again, and scrub again. By the end of that day we were both sore and tired and grumpy and blaming ourselves for having poured that stuff out. Oh well, lesson learned on that part.
The next day, neither one of us was moving very fast. I felt like my legs were ripping to shreds every time I moved. I really understand what people talk about when they mention they had "leg day" now. T finally drank enough coffee to get him going and he began the slow task of putting down the flooring.
T putting in the last piece!
In total it took 2 days to put all of the flooring down, but it looks and feels nice and I can't wait to get the carpet ripped up in the hallway and living room and to put this same type of flooring in there. By the end of the weekend we were both more exhausted than when we started and it took the last bit of energy to put our bed back together that night. I sincerely hope that when we go to do the molding and trim, it won't be such a big ordeal as the flooring was and we won't mess it up. I told T that we always have at least one big oops per project and we will hope this was it.
It's so pretty!
Until next time in the Remodeling Saga!
