The New Floor Saga - Finally the Finale

Four of them arrived at 8:30 on Wednesday morning.  Within minutes the house was filled with sounds of demolition.  Joined in  concert with the snap crackle of ripping wood was the bang, bang of swinging mallets prodding the old floor to just let go.
Listening to this, as I sat with my knitting in one of the four kitchen chairs, which, by the way, were now in our bedroom, I wondered how any sort of order could be restored by what seemed to me to be sheer and utter chaos.

Within in a surprisingly short amount of time, though, the old floor was up

out the door.

By the end of the day three quarters of the new floor had been installed.

Old Floor / New Floor

The four men who were doing the job were young, probably in their 20’s.  The one who answered to “the boss” spoke English, but with a definite accent.   I tried to identify the language that he was communicating in to the others.   “Portuguese,” he answered when we asked.   He told us that they were from Brazil.
I must say they worked hard, only stopping once for a short lunch break.
They came back the next day and were completely finished by 3:00.

I love our new floor.

Now onto the next project.  We are getting new carpet installed in our bedroom.  We are also getting the bedroom and master bath painted.
Today I spent the day emptying out our closets.

The plastic bins hold all of my yarn stash.  Sinful!

I can’t believe that all of this fit in my closet.  Ross and Rico can’t believe it either.
I hope this goes as smoothly as the floor did.