Moving along

All the floor installations are in progress... the errant finish nailer we ordered for the floors found its way here on Christmas Eve after being lost in Lacey, WA (about 6 hours away) for a while. It is working well and the kitchen/dining room flooring is almost done. We are pleased with the look of the Ecotimber stranded bamboo.

Here is a sampling of the bamboo.

Tiling is underway also, although we discovered 3 boxes of the wrong tile mixed in with the rest and will need to have them replaced. One good thing, we won't have to take the big truck this time. On a positive note, the replacement part for the truck heard round the world cost only $2.00, so it wasn't a major expense.

This is the entry tile. Ken designed the pattern.

Ken has installed the under tile heating system for the master bath-- Yeah! Now he is filling the space with self leveling thinset to even out the flooring before the tiling begins.



Having some spare time on my hands, I decided to start digging for native rocks/stones to put around the bottom of the pillars at the front of the house. I found some good ones and there are plenty more out there. (I kept thinking of the movie Cool Hand Luke while I was digging.)

Lots of pieces to the puzzle

Well almost all the pieces are here. We managed to get all the almost 100--72 pound packages of flooring in the correct rooms, lugging about half of these up the stairs.

The interior doors and finish woodwork arrived at the beginning of December and the replacement pieces of flooring arrived today.

Installation of the flooring started earlier this week, but ran into a snag as the wood is so dense and hard (which is a good thing in the long run). We have had to order a new tool to install, so that added a couple of days delay.

Yesterday Ken and I borrowed a vintage flatbed truck from our neighbor and drove 100 miles each way to pick up about a ton and a half of tile. It was an adventure as an exhaust gasket failed and we made LOTS of noise all the way home, so much that a Washington State Dept. of Transportation rescue vehicle followed us for several miles to make sure we were ok.