Flooring

Well.....after a VERY long 3 days, Clay and I are FINALLY finished with the kitchen and dining room floors. We worked on the kitchen late into the night on Monday and then worked all day on the dining room on Tuesday. After completing the entire floor, we realized it was really squeaky and very bouncy. I called my step-dad at that point to figure out what the heck was up with the floor. When laying the dining room, we left the carpet underlay on the floor and then put the laminate ontop of that. My step-dad said that it actually needed to come up or the laminate would start to slide apart and break and come up. Sooooo...as much as it sucked, we pulled apart the laminate floor in the dining room and then pulled up the carpet underlay and the carpet tracks. This part REALLY SUCKED. At that point, we realized the kitchen flooring was about 1/2 inch higher than the dining room flooring, so Clay went and got plywood and cut it up into pieces to try to bring it even. Clay started laying the floor while I was on my run this morning and when I came back I realized that the floor still was uneven (even after he put in the plywood). So, he took it apart and then put leveler down to try to level the spot that transitioned into the kitchen and the dining room. That had to dry FOREVER, so we went to the park and let Kaylee parade in the grass and play on the swing. Once the leveler was dry, Clay started laying down the floor again. After all that, the floor is finally laid down. It looks so much better than the carpet/blue and white linoleum combination that was there before. For those looking to redo their flooring with laminate, it isn't easy but the results are beautiful. Clay and I redid both of our bathroom flooring and that was immensely easy....laminate flooring is definitely tougher.