Getting there (yes, another wood floor post)

A quick progress update on the wood floor thing I've mentioned once or twice on this site"

Now that we've got the flooring figured out an order has been placed to 1A Flooring for about 650 square feet of the stuff. How long it'll take to get here from Massachusetts is anybody's guess. Maybe next week. Anyway they had the best price and came out ahead in shipping. They also deliver it to the curb which will help out a lot (as opposed to picking it up at a terminal in my Celica and testing the car's load limits like I used to do in college at the end of the semester when it was time to move out).

The other big material item we'll need is the glue. While searching for who actually sells the stuff Kahrs recommends google pointed me towards a Craigslist posting. This was no ordinary posting - it was from here in San Antonio and made two days earlier. Long story short, I got a killer deal on the exact amount of glue I'll need from someone who ordered too much when they did their own place. Sometimes you get lucky.

So this weekend if there's time between football and group projects we might be able to start demolition - removing the furniture, carpet, padding, and tack strip from the two rooms the wood is going in. I'd like to scratch up the concrete so the glue will hold better and get to work on the low spots, while waiting for a couple of moisture tests to run. To test for moisture in the concrete slab I plan on duct taping some plastic to the concrete and checking for discoloration and moisture in a couple of days. We should also be able to remove the baseboards and number them so it's clear which one goes where.

I'm also hoping the original owners can make it over this weekend - they said they wanted to see the place again and bring along some pictures of what it used to look like. They'd probably have a better time having a look around before or after all this work begins.

There will be plenty of details and pictures when we get to work. It should be any day now!