All Forum Posts by: Lee Fahy

Floors are done:

I did the trim work for about a week and touch up paint where I had bumped the trim with my staining pad. 

So nobody likes to admit they don't know what they are doing, its embarrassing when you make an obvious mistake. Don't stain floors when its 85F inside the house and always always use a smaller pad and never cross the board lines. 

Room 2 was finished before I realized my mistake. What can you do? It's a rental so I'm not resanding but it took my father-in-law stopping by (he's an actual wood worker) to stop me from sanding it all off in a fit of rage. 

Long day:

I'm mid thirties and in fairly reasonable shape, working out and maintaining a TIGHT chicken wing and craft beer diet. That said I could barely walk the next day after edge sanding. 

So the problem about thinking you know what you are doing is.........YOU DON'T REALIZE YOU ARE CLUELESS. Drum sanding and edging then:

If you have a chance, IMMEDIATELY volunteer for the drum sander and not the edger. Here is my dad drum sanding because he made the mistake of visiting from Houston. 

Here's the wet room 2 after sanding:

Also, there is no whining about chatter marks on the floor when your labor is free (minus buying him lunch). 

@Linda Weygant; If things weren't going to work out with my wife I'm pretty sure it would have been the night we put sheetrock up on the ceiling of Room 2. We made it through that and didn't speak for 24 hours after.....so I think we are going to go the distance. If not though, I'll PM her contact info, haha. She's a keeper. 

@Ryan Huggins; HA! I love it, I can't imagine what you've seen if this one isn't that bad. I'm still 'fingers crossed' that I'll find drug money tucked up in a basement ceiling tile so I can pay somebody to finish this project. 

Meanwhile, laying in bed on a Saturday morning after a week away in the field (field engineer) my wife shows me:

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and now we've got more things happening. So I am now being accused by my buddies of forcing my pregnant wife to work on the CrapPlex. 

Nine months later:

Sleep... that's a thing I used to do. 

So room 2.........good God. Just magnificent. 

The musty stink of money...and wet insulation. Anyway, we dried it out and fixed the ceiling but after six months the floors were still showing major gaps. The quote I got was 1600 to redo the wood floors(not including this room because the guy said the floors were a total loss) but I'm a naturally cheap and stupid person. So I redid them myself. 

Here's a pic of the ceiling and prefloor work:

I had to pull them together and reattach the boards as much as possible before sanding. Not perfect but the drum sander evened things out. 

Also try to understand that it gets old and you'll find yourself in home depot towing your wife behind you at all hours of the evening:

@Michael Boyer; I WISH I could be making some of this up or churching up the hilarity of this trainwreck. It was like watching a train wreck or car accident in slow motion. The more we fixed the more we fixed. 

All I can say is, "marry the right person and laugh".

And be sure she can do vinyl work better than you can. 

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