Flooring

You might have seen from some of the earlier posts but most of the first floor had wonderful oak wood floors.  It's just that neither of us particularly liked the shade of stain that had been used.

And as you may recall the kitchen had some seriously hideous tiling.   

With the demoliton of the kitchen, the tile was removed and then came the matching of the wood floors.  New oak floors were installed where the tile had been and then the whole of the first floor was resanded and then all restained so it would all match throughout.

The new wood laid.  You can see the old colouring.

Then the sanders came in....

it was a pretty dusty day:

The camera picked up all the dust in the air

Sanding took the old colour off the wood.



That's a lot of dust!

Jose Angel and his team did an amazing job, it just took us a little unaware that we were not going to be able to get back into the ground floor of our house whilst he was working on the floors.    This caused a little problem considering we were only using one room to live in and that was upstairs!

Brians ingenuity overcame the issue, as he worked out that getting upstairs just meant climbing a ladder to the first floor den, and then balancing on a beam to get across the newly stained floor to the bottom of the carpetted stairs, which we could walk on!

Our escape route:
from the Den on the right over the plank and up the stairs on the left....

Unfortunately I didn't get back quick enough to be able to get a picture of newly stained floors before we had them covered over again to stop them getting nicked by the cabinet installers or splashed with paint.... you'll just have to wait and see!