Floorlopnik

"MM54" (mm54mk2) 02/25/2018 at 21:18 • Filed to: HOUSELOPNIK

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Spent all weekend installing (real, 3/4") hardwood flooring in my house, finished the hallway (and linen closet, and all the related difficult cuts/pieces), the office (wherefrom I type this), and about half of the living room.

Office

Should be able to work on it a little during the week and finish up by the end of next weekend (need to finish the living room, do the dining room, and two closets). I hope. I realized as I opened the second box of nails (1,000ct) this morning that I have swung the hammer on the flooring nailer at least 1,000 times in the prior 24 hours. My back hurts.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > MM54 02/25/2018 at 21:32

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I did that last summer. Living room and bedroom. Well worth the effort to install real wood.

shop-teacher > MM54 02/25/2018 at 21:45

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Looking good!

I hope you rented a pneumatic assisted gun for the job.

MM54 > shop-teacher 02/25/2018 at 21:47

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Better yet - borrowed one!

shop-teacher > MM54 02/25/2018 at 21:50

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Niiiiiiice!

Nothing > MM54 02/25/2018 at 22:07

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I did it in my prior house with 3/4” hickory. When we moved, I paid to have this house done. Family, timeline, blending with existing wood, all that jazz. I did the stairs in the old house too. Did you use knee pads? I didn’t and was sore for days.

Looks great! Congrats on a job well done.

Nibby > MM54 02/25/2018 at 22:08

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Wow, nice job! I’m floored by your work.

Nibby > shop-teacher 02/25/2018 at 22:09

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i’ve got a pneumatic gun too ;)

E92M3 > MM54 02/25/2018 at 22:11

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Looks good, what kind of trim are you going with? I was thinking about replacing some of mine with “flat stock”.

smobgirl > MM54 02/25/2018 at 22:15

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Looks fantastic! Mine next!

shop-teacher > Nibby 02/25/2018 at 22:28

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*rimshot*

OPPOsaurus WRX > MM54 02/25/2018 at 22:39

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all that in one day? i did my kitchen, dining room , and living room, about 650 sq ft and it took days.

MM54 > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/25/2018 at 22:41

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Friday 7pm -> 11pm
Saturday 10am -> 12:30am
Sunday 9am -> 6pm

A lot of the time was getting started and the hallway, which has 4 door jambs and a little closet which makes for some time consuming work.

MM54 > E92M3 02/25/2018 at 22:45

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Thanks! For trim I’m just going to put in basic pine ranch casing, stained to match doors/other trim. It’ll match the rest of the house’s trim and is what was there (albeit destroyed from 30+ years of abuse) before I pulled it up alongside the carpet prior to painting.

I do like the look of flat stock, but it really needs to match the rest of the trim (i.e. all the windows, door casings, etc need to be the same flat) to not seem out of place.

MM54 > Nibby 02/25/2018 at 22:46

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Thank you, I was worried I’d be board with the work but I was able to get in the groove and hammer it out.

MM54 > Nothing 02/25/2018 at 22:48

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Thank you. If I had a life much going on it would be hard to get the time to do it as well as the time of “the house is torn apart” - fortunately being a single guy living alone, I can take the house apart at my leisure.

No knee pads, or any other sort of PPE, really. Don’t tell OSHA.

LOREM IPSUM > MM54 02/26/2018 at 00:52

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At work I often go through a box of staples in my hammer tacker in a day.

There are approximately 5000 staples per box.

I feel your pain.

MM54 > LOREM IPSUM 02/26/2018 at 17:55

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The slap stapler (as we called it) was one of my favorite tools back when I worked construction, but I wouldn’t want to run through a box in a day!