Out with the old time to re-claim some floor.

Now that the tree is out of the way and we have made space in the living room we decided to take advantage and re-claim another section of the wood floor. Our house was built some where around 1820-1840 but has had some not so pleasant “up-dates” prior to my purchase in 1999. An example is the 3 tone green shag carpet installed in the dinning and living rooms over the original oak and knotty pine wood floors. Maybe installed isn’t the correct word because who ever put the carpet in glued it to the floor. Yes you read correctly- glued. Clint and I have scraped every inch of this floor with a heat gun to get rid of the glue. Then the floors have to be sanded, stained, and coated with 3 layers of polyurethane. The dining room is finished but the living room is barley started on the sanding and staining process. Because we are trying to live in it while we do this we do it in chunks. Here is one more chunk.

 

Caelun got his own broom from Grandpa Medford to help. He loves to sweep.

   

Even if the sweeping isn’t where one would think the sweeping needs to be.

He is even going to use the dust pan.

Where we left off.

 

Then we sand.

I ran the sander, Clint stayed behind me with the shop-vac, and Caelun was the cheering section.

Then stain.

Then the polyurethane.

  

This is kind of a before and after.

There are some stains that I didn’t sand deep enough to get out but for almost 200 year old floors not to bad. At some future date when other projects have been completed I may come back to some of these spots to sand deeper or use some bleach but for now it is a great improvement.