2nd May 2019
House renovation day 4
I made the executive decision to start the flooring. I felt that would give us a moral boost in the same way the painting in the living space had done.
I had learnt a lot from laying the floor in the cottage, so with laser and tape I set about setting some starting lines.
I was careful to get all the starting points correct, and as the first two runs had floor vents I was taking special care not to mess things up. At one point Kelli was concerned that I had frozen in time as my progress was painfully slow. I kept telling her how important getting the first row straight and true, but she just saw the snail pace, and thought it would take forever.
Greer even phoned from work to see if I had broken the second row.
I ignored the comments and just soldiered on.
Kelli managed to scrape off the wallpaper in the kitchen, an achievement in itself as she had to climb a ladder, something that she is not comfortable doing.
As I was now making real progress, I invited Kelli to help in the floor laying marathon. It took a while but she soon got the hang of it.
We worked on until we nearly got half of the living space done, then crawled back to soothe our weary bones, and some liquid strength.
Another Lifetime to go 