It has been fairly the lengthy street to get so far, however our bed room suite lastly has hardwood flooring all through! It was final September that we employed somebody to take out the unique flooring and subfloor within the residence gymnasium and change the subfloor.
The entire thing was carried out in a really piecemeal means as our plans for this space of the home developed. Initially, the house gymnasium was going to remain the house gymnasium, and the visitor bed room was going to remain the visitor bed room. However over time, every little thing developed into our present plan of turning the house gymnasium into the bed room, and turning the visitor bed room into the walk-in closet and laundry room combo.
It was mid-September once they completed up this room, taking out the unique closet and putting in the brand new subfloor…
After which it was in direction of the top of November that I made a decision to have them take away the complete doorway into the bed room, and I additionally eliminated the hallway cupboard and took up the hardwood flooring within the hallway because it had been put in across the hallway cupboard. To me, putting in all new flooring on this comparatively small space appeared simpler than having to feather in new flooring the place the cupboard had been.
After which it was in December that I had them open up the doorway into the closet/laundry space, take away the previous flooring and subfloor, and set up new subfloor in there as nicely.
So all of this has been underway since final September, partly as a result of the plan stored altering and evolving, and partly due to my contractor concern. After coping with the contractor and eventually telling him to not come again proper earlier than Christmas, I simply wanted a break from this complete venture. After telling him to not come again, the entire thing appeared overwhelming to me, so I needed to step away from it for some time, clear my thoughts, and deal with some enjoyable tasks that will get and preserve me motivated. So I spent the final week in December and the entire month of January of this 12 months targeted on enjoyable tasks for the outside of my workshop. And it labored! As soon as I had carried out a number of tasks on that workshop, I used to be beginning to really feel motivated to lastly face the large bed room suite venture once more.
So all of that to say this. With this space being torn up one space at a time since final September, I’m certain you possibly can perceive simply how elated I’m to lastly see main progress on this enormous, unifying venture for our main bedroom suite. After dwelling with subfloor partly, after which all, of this bed room suite for the final 5 months, I might bounce for pleasure at going from this…
…to this over the past three week days…
And I’ll say it once more to any of you who’re native to the Waco space. I completely liked having these folks in my residence. I’d extremely suggest this native family-owned enterprise, Valdez Flooring Masters, when you have any flooring wants.
They had been an absolute pleasure to have in my residence. The person who owns it’s semi-retired however enjoys being on website to regulate his sons and the work being carried out. He’s such a pleasant man, and he was so good to speak with whereas his sons stayed busy and received the job carried out. They usually have a tremendous work ethic, displaying up on time, working till 5:00 (or a bit after) every day, and doing a wonderful job on the set up.
And I do know it is a little factor, but it surely’s a kind of little issues that impresses me rather a lot. Since I used to be in right here within the evenings and over the weekend doing different issues (just like the drywall mudding, sanding, priming, and testing out paint colours), I had left a few of my instruments mendacity round. After which I left yesterday to have dinner with pals whereas they completed up the ultimate edge particulars ont the flooring.
And after I got here again final evening to see the completed flooring, they’d not solely cleaned up after themselves, however they’d lined up all of my instruments neatly on the window sill, they’d rolled up my air hose for me, they usually had my flooring nailer, air compressor, and air hose neatly lined up in entrance of the window.
I do know it’s a small factor, however small particulars like that impress the heck out of me.
For those who’ve been round right here for lengthy, you understand how onerous it’s for me to rent out work. It’s so onerous for me to belief different folks to do a superb job and to concentrate to the main points that I need them to concentrate to. So hiring out one thing as vital because the flooring set up in our complete bed room suite was a giant leap of religion for me.
Discovering an organization that not solely met, however exceeded my expectations, makes me wish to shout their title from my rooftop. That’s the type of enterprise you hope stays round for a very very long time. We want extra contractors and subcontractors with that type of work ethic and a spotlight to element!
Clearly, the flooring has a protracted option to go earlier than it’s really completed. As I discussed in a earlier submit, they solely do the set up. However the proprietor advisable somebody to do the sanding for me (the half I actually dreaded doing myself).
They usually instructed me he’s coming at this time to begin the sanding. I didn’t really verify that with him myself, however Mr. Valdez mentioned he talked to him and mentioned he’s planning to be right here this morning. If that doesn’t occur, I received’t be upset about it since Wednesdays are the day that I’ve lunch with my mother and brother. So if he doesn’t present, I’ll coordinate with him by the top of the day, and hopefully he can get the sanding carried out by the top of this week.
And if he can get it carried out by the top of this week, that signifies that I might begin staining and polyurethaning this weekend! (Aspect observe: I can’t consider I really had flooring left over! I used to be so nervous that I hadn’t bought sufficient, and even after I measured and refigured, my math instructed me that I used to be about 40 sq. ft quick. I do not know how I wound up with flooring left over!)
And one other facet observe, I had somebody ask me about these few boards within the lobby which can be darker. She questioned if they’d slipped in some boards of a distinct species than the remainder of the wooden floors. These are the identical pink oak as the remainder of the flooring. I had examined out stain colours on them, however as soon as they’re sanded, they’ll be the identical colour as the remainder. I’ve solely ever purchased pink oak hardwood flooring for our home.
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Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You’ll be able to be taught extra about me right here.
