Monday, January 14, 2013

Flooring.....Finally!

Its been awhile sense my last update but work all but stop in waiting for the hardwood flooring to show up.  Well the hardwood flooring finally showed up.  The wood was delivered in the back of transfer truck so me and the builder off loaded 5000lbs of hardwood flooring. (yes 5000lbs, my body reminded me I am not as young as I once was)

We decided on Hickory flooring with different widths, 4" 6" & 8".  We also chose to go with 60% select and 35% character grade which provided us a few knots to add some character.





The floor installer got it down in three days.  Since the floor is a wide plank we glued it down plus toe nailing like other hardwood.  The glue acts as our vapor barrier whereas normally you put down paper. It will help that our crawl space is conditioned so the humidity should be the same on both sides so hopefully we will not have any problems with the flooring.

once we get closer to finishing the installer will come back and sand and finish the flooring.  We are planning on adding a darker stain.



Once we had the floor down the cabinet company delivered the rest of the bathroom cabinets and the kitchen cabinets.

Here is the living room full of kitchen cabinets.


white cabinet is the surround cabinets and darker will be the island
The contractor already installed the master bath cabinets and the girls cabinets.




So its now busy busy at the house with the cabinets being installed and the doors and moldings being installed.  The outside rock is suppose to show up Tuesday but they are calling for rain for the next three days so that will probably be pushed back a week.  The septic tank should go in next week if the ground dries up.  Also progress energy will be running their line from the transformer to the meter on the 21st.  So hopefully work will be picking up and getting us to closer to finishing.

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