Anita has wanted a new kitchen floor for a while now, and Harry decided to take on the project this summer. They decided to lay a wide plank pine floor. The material arrived in late June, and it required a few weeks to acclimate. Harry started laying the floor two weekends ago; he did the necessary demolition a few weeks ago. Kenny (Anita’s cousin) and Pat (his wife) came up the first day the project got started. Kenny and I helped Harry with the work that day. Harry worked on his own throughout the week and on Saturday. I helped again this past Sunday; I was the designated nailer. I have been paying the price for the past couple of days, my legs are so sore I can barely walk.

<edit>I was just reading through this post and I realized it makes no sense why my legs would have gotten sore from doing all of the nailing. The floor is not exactly flat, in fact it is no where near what you might call flat. This meant a lot of the boards did not lie down nicely. It required standing on them in particular ways to get them to lie down whilst putting the nails in. It was this process that led to my legs being sore.

And to continue my rant from a previous post it has now been nice for three days (great cycling weather); well guess what, my legs are too sore to ride. I love that Murphy.</edit>

I think Harry was hoping to be done with the floor by this past weekend, but he didn’t quite get that far. He worked on it again yesterday and made good progress. He is probably just a couple of days from getting all of the wood laid. After that the floor will need to be stained and tung oiled, this process will take around 5 days.

In the meantime, Harry has made a make shift kitchen in the dinning room. He moved the stove and refrigerator in there, and made some counter space out of the bottom half of the hutch. We had to move the kitchen table into the dining room as well. On top of that the wood has been stacked in the living room since late June. If the house was a bit cramped before with Ali and I living there, I’m not sure what you’d call it now while this work is going on.

So far it has been an interesting project and I’m glad I’ve been able to see it action.

I’ll post more pictures in the photo album when it is all done.