I am pretty aware of everything taking longer than expected. I think I made a post about that recently. However, I would be going into this project with some experience, having done my living room floor already. The living room floor took a long time because I had to lay down plywood first, and cut it out around the fireplace, the entrance way, and the radiator. Then the first row of boards was very hard to line up since I had to span the opening between the living room and dining room. But, once that was done, I laid the actual floor in one weekend. There was work to be done after the floor was down, like cut the nice angled area for the entrance way, and rip out the radiator and then finish where the radiator was.
On the nursery floor, I don't think I would need to lay down the plywood, there are nothing but four straight walls with no cut-outs. Once I get the first two rows in, which will take the better part of a day, because, to do it right, I need to pre-drill some holes right at the edge of the first row, then pre-drill angled holes just above the tung of the second row, then hand nail those two rows in. But once that is done, I can really fly through the rest. The floor moldings are very wide, so in the living room we didn't do anything, just laid the new floor down and the moldings look perfectly normal. Just slapped down some quarter round and it looks great. I really need a sighted person to take a closer look at the nursery floor first and see just how good or bad it really is. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [email protected] Tel: (412) 268-9081
