Steven decided there was a way to raise the radiator pipes so he removed the radiator again and installed flooring. It all had to be hand nailed and holes cut out for the radiator pipes but turned out good.
While Steven was working on this corner, I was stripping the body of the dresser. It did not go well and there is still much to do.
Had problems with the air nailer but once Steven figured it out the nailing went smoothly. All the boards are not the same width; so we had problems with extra spacing which we will fill later. The boards are nailed up to in front of the door.
Now what to do with the area under the radiator.
We picked up an old dresser that had been painted. Thankfully the mirror was not painted. Unfortunately, the owner had removed the ornate drawer pulls. I have stripped the drawers to reveal beautiful oak wood and a lovely gold metal key hole surround.
Hickory flooring is a very hard material and is also hard to install!
First Steven needed to move the very large radiator. We cannot install flooring underneath the legs as it would then be too high for the water connections. We will lay flooring around the feet.
Hickory flooring is a very dense hard material. To install the first two rows, Steven had to drill holes for the nails and they were still difficult to pound through to the rafters. I had marked the position of all the rafters with a black marker and installed underlayment on top of that.
The wall was not straight with the lines of the underflooring so we needed to make adjustments in the first row. We got two rows almost finished before Steven didn’t have enough strength to sink the last row of nails.
The next rows will be installed with a pneumatic nailer which will make it much easier.
Tomorrow we are having the final electrical inspection for the second floor. Today I cleared material from the first floor to the basement to give working room. Steven worked on the electricity for the living room. He is having problems and can’t figure what the problem is. I started stripping the paint off a dresser for the north bedroom.
I hand painted a medallion for the stairway light. The medallion was another thrift store find.
Add the white paddles on the ceiling fan in the south bedroom. The light globes are Caprice design. We do not have a globe for center light as it is a wide opening. Will have to keep looking for something. There are also lights in the area above the paddles.
We also purchased 7 boxes of a darker 3/4″ hickory flooring which we will use in the south bedroom. We had also stored it in the garage. It sat on top of 8 boxes of lighter hickory 3/4″ flooring which we will use in the middle room. It is still in the garage. To get the flooring upstairs, Steven backed our car to the garage, slid the boxes of flooring into the car, drove the car around to the north side of the house and slid the boxes into the house. He then set up a way to slide the boxes up the stairs! Very ingenious and resourceful! We had purchased all the flooring at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore at a fraction of the retail cost.
We purchased 10 boxes of this hickory flooring. I will be installed in the north bedroom. I sorted it into approximate lengths so we can more easily find just the right length when installing. We had stored it in the garage. My daughter and son-in-law carried the boxes upstairs for us. Thank you Katina and Patricio!
We found two slide by windows being discarded. One is in the south bedroom and one is in the water closet. They were dark brown so I painted them both white.
