I fully intended to post on Tuesday's progress yesterday. I even took pictures of the family room every hour on the hour. I decided to spare you all, my gentle readers, from looking at those pictures because essentially they were a record of watching cement dry, a process that is only slightly more interesting than watching paint dry.
Here, for example, is the first picture of the day, taken in the early morning before the installer arrived yesterday:
And here is what most of the pictures that I took for the rest of the day looked like:
The heater moves around, various tools and supplies appear and disappear. And that's about it. The long and short of it was that the leveling material was not quite dry enough to lay the floor over. So we ran space heaters and overhead fans and cranked the house heat up in hopes that today, Wednesday, the work could proceed.
And it did!
A moisture barrier is laid down.
The first few rows of new flooring are installed.
Mostly done.
And a detail of one of the corners where the new floor and the tile floors around the kitchen meet. Transition strips will be put in place tomorrow.
And finally (despite the decision by my camera to mess up the color values), the new floor is complete:
The floor in Future Vet's bedroom was also completed today:
And that leaves only the living room, which -- G-d willin' and the river don't rise -- will be done tomorrow.
But at least the prep work is done in this room and, after running space heaters and fans all day, the leveling compound is dry enough to work with.
Here's one last effect of all this "progress" inside the house. We moved a couch to the back yard because we are not keeping this couch in the new and improved family room.
The dogs have taken full advantage of this temporary location. (Just for the record, the streaks on the window are not weather-related. They are from emptying the hose to the swamp coolers. I haven't had a chance to clean the sliding door yet. Too busy moving furniture.)
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