| Our bedroom.
You'll see in the trash can a piece of the nasty gold carpet that was in almost every room in the house. |
| Once we got the holes cut out and the floor
cleaned up, it looked like this:
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| And this is what the floor looked like after
the new pieces were in and the surface was sanded. You can't even see the patches!
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This is
pretty representative of the kinds of problems all the floors had. These holes were
patched with all kinds of stuff: particle board, plywood, drywall and mortar (I'm
serious). We pulled all that stuff up and used chisels and the SkilSaw to cut the
floorboards back in a staggered pattern around the holes.
Next we had to cut floorboards to fit the
gaps. The wood was old heart pine, and they don't have the kind or the size we
needed at Home Depot. So we sacrificed the floor in the study and used the wood to
fix the other floors. Here's a picture of Marty and Jim fitting the new pieces into
the floor.