Archive for June, 2007

Flooreration

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Prepping the house to install a floor is oddly like trying to back up a computer to reformat it but not quite having enough spare hard drive space. Unfortunately, it’s not a problem that can be fixed with freeNAS; the solution was to make the kitchen impenetrably packed with furniture, and then throw out what didn’t fit. And convert those cheap bookshelves into a stand for the circular saw.

Anyway, floating floors are fairly simple, given that:

1. Even after getting a couple opinions on what the pictorial instructions could possibly mean, you’re happy to just go at it without really knowing.

2. You have enough patience to endure knee pain and put on band-aids so that you don’t bleed on the pretty new floor from the cuts it gave you.

3. Your respiratory system can successfully filter out the burning laminate dust the circular saw spews out.

And here are the pictures.