Day 3 of the Laminate Flooring Install

Holy crap! We finally got to put down some real laminate!

We've got about 1/2 the living room/dining room done and we had to stop. It was getting way too late at night to run the table saw because of the noise. Halfway through getting this stupid thing started last night, the blade that I had on the table saw decided to die. It wasn't cutting anything, all it was doing was producing tons of smoke and just not cutting. So, off Mike went to Home Depot at like 9:30pm to get me a new blade so we can at least cut a bunch of starter pieces to put in more rows. I figure that we would cut the end pieces tonight out of the other half of those rows but each one of those takes time and serious measuring. Anyway, he came home with a 2 pack of blades from DeWalt. At first, I was freaking out because DeWalt = BIG$$$, but they were acutally the least expensive ones there in the size and type I needed. Put that thing in and started ripping boards....OH MY GOD! It is the mostly heavenly blade! No chipping, nothing...goes through like butta'! So beyond worth the money...WOW!

We're back at work now but tonight we're going to bust out as much as possible since it's supposed to hit 100+ degrees here for the next couple of days and we need the floor to be down so we can break out the air mattress and sleep in the living room since it's the only room with an AC unit in it.

More pics and hopefully a "Yay! We're finished!" post tomorrow.

On a different note, we went to the city planner yesterday to find out what permits have been pulled on the house so we could find the person that ripped out the walls and beat him to a pulp ask him a few questions. There was only 1 permit pulled on the house in the last 20 years and that was to install a new circuit breaker box. Fantastic. That explains a lot about the way things were done.

We also saw arial pics of the property lines and as we suspected, the neighbor is over our property by at least 7ft. The photos also show that this has been like this for less than 10 years, so we have no squatter's rights issues going on at least. Plus, he also gave us the number to a surveyor in the area to contact. I called and left a message for him. He called back within the hour and is going to be coming by on Saturday to talk about the situation.

Finally, we had been waiting for about 2 weeks for an electrician to come by and give us a run down on the wiring situation in the house. He finally showed up yesterday as well and went on a tour of the house. Looks like if we want to get them in to simply clean up all the junctions, they estimate it would take 2 people about 2 days to get it done (this is just the attic work) and would run roughly $2500....ouch! So, Mike is going to be doing a lot of the clean up himself. We also made a deal. Since I go all fritty when it comes to electricity, I'll take care of all the plumbing. Only problem I have now is getting over the buried alive severe phobia I have to get into the crawlspace to work on it. Fun.

posted by Unknown @ Thursday, July 20, 2006