Today was the day we had planned to finish off the flooring in the living room.
Before we arrived here, Brian and Leanne had stripped the carpet from this floor and despite dramas with rough and unlevel concrete floors, laid a room full of mahogany floor boards. The only thing still to be done was the quarter round to mask the floor to wall join. We collected 10 pieces of 10 ft quarter round from Lumber Liquidators and visited several stores to try to find one which hired out a nail gun, but lucked out. After lunch Brian went to one more Home Depot and returned with a nail gun and compressor for the job.
When Leanne returned from work at around 2.30pm, we went to work. Marg and I did the cutting of timber (actually MDF), while Leanne and Brian tended to the nailing task.
Despite some initial setbacks such as out of square walls and floorboards which didn't quite make it to the walls with a gap which couldn't be hidden by the quarter round (we fixed that !), we were finished by around 5.00pm. That meant that although we had hired the equipment for 24 hours we returned it early and got away with a four hour hiring charge. Good work, team.
The compressor had a leak in it - I guess if it's hired equipment it's not likely to be perfect. Wherever the leak was coming from, was not obvious but we were able to work through it. I had once experienced a problem wih a leaking tyre on a hire car and was initially told I would have to pay for the tube repair. I argued that the tyre was leaking when I hired the car (which it was) and won the day, but learned a lesson. This time, the leak went unreported.
All hands reckoned we'd done a good job, today.
