Now that I've kept you all in suspense for so long I'll get to my demolition story. So, we got home from Corpus Christ and had all of our stuff put away by about 4:00 in the afternoon and Erik quickly got bored. Anyone who knows my husband knows that he can't sit still for 5 minutes unless he's sleeping, so he needed a project to do. He decided that now was a good time to start tearing out our carpet, so he quickly got to work. Before he quit for the night, he had all the furniture from the dining room,
hallway,
and most of the stuff from the living room cleared (most of it was in the babies room, but there was some in our bedroom and some in the kitchen).
He also had the carpet/pad ripped out of the dinning room.
Now let me back up just a little, we had been planning on redoing our floors and had even purchased the wood already, but the original plan was to wait a week to start the demo because Erik had a 4 day weekend coming up so we would be able to demo on a Wed/Thurs (his normal days off) then start laying floors the following Monday (he had Mon-Thurs off). That way we'd only be in a state of deconstruction for a couple of days and he'd have 4 days to work on laying the floors. So starting demo when he did threw this schedule off. Anyway, back to the story, so he started demo on Thursday. Friday he had court all morning, but had the day off from his regular shift so that afternoon he came home and finished ripping out the carpet in the hallway (with the help of her highness)

and living room 
and breaking up the tile in the entry. 

Saturday was spent running errand to get all the toys [ I mean tools] Erik would need to finish the floors with. The following Wed. Erik had court again that morning, but was able to come home and get started on the floors in the afternoon, 
and was able to finish the dinning room that evening.
The following day, he did the entryway, hallway
and most of the living room
before he ran out of glue and had to stop for the night. And so we spent yet another weekend in a state of construction. Erik was able to finish the actual flooring on Monday, we were able to put most of the furniture back in place Tues. afternoon (only because I begged and pleaded with Erik to at least let me get some sense of order back). 
Wed. we picked up the molding and the tools Erik would need to finish the project, but will all the corners and odd angles we have that didn't happen, in fact, the molding still isn't complete, but we are hoping (keep your fingers crossed) that he'll be able to get it done tomorrow or Friday morning then we can move the rest of the furniture back in place and have everything back in order. Needless to say, I've said NO MORE PROJECTS until well after the babies come. So, if anyone needs projects done around their house, I have a husband-for-hire for the next few months, just shoot me an email and I'll send him your way.
8.11.2010
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The house looks so good...way to go hubby of yours and way to go Amy for having patience...it looks well worth it...your family is just two cute...
ReplyDeleteI am so jealous right now, the floors look amazing and I can not believe that you were able to deal with all that and being pregnant :) It was a quick job if you ask me. By the way the vacation seems like so much fun!!!
ReplyDeleteThe floors look fantastic! I know who to call when we decide to do the same to our house!
ReplyDeleteIt looks great! I just love the look of it!
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