Linoleum Liquidators

We have spent our day pulling up flooring.

Susan worked the area south of the island and I concentrated on the floor in front of the doors to the deck.

It took us about three hours and then another hour and a half to clean up.

Now we need to take a trip to the dump. The last load I took was a bout 250 pounds and cost about thirty bucks.

I think we have pretty close to that amount for todays' dump run. Gotta go. The dumps closes at 5:00.

What To Do Once You’re Retired

11:58AM: Today we are continuing the destruction of the kitchen floor. Ideally, I would like to get the whole rest of the linoleum cut up with the saw and be done with the messy part of this project.

I have completed the first half, cutting up everything to the south of the island. I even moved the fridge and cut up the floor under it.

Susan is presently vacuuming while I am writing this portion of the post. When she is finished, we will move the Piano Bar and mini fridge and other assorted items that are in the way so I can proceed to cutting up the remaining linoleum near the doors to the deck.

3:00PM: The floor is cut up in to nice bite sized squares. I do not feel like pulling up any of those squares. We are concentrating now and some dust remediation. Now that the floor has been completely cut up, the dust storm this house has endured is at its end. So we can dust and clean the thick layer of dust I have been creating since this started back on the second week of August.

But first, I think I deserve a dip in the pool.

Mo Flo

Susan took a Covid test this morning and she tested negative. Finally! She has been feeling better the last couple days. She was feeling good enough yesterday to help with floor removal.

We pretty much got the pantry room completely linoleum free. I have a little to do along the edges where the cabinets are. It seems the flooring is under the cabinet so it’s giving me some grief about coming out.

I figure we still have 340 square feet to go.

Cabinets and Radiators

We met today with Rick from CabinetPro. He took and bunch of measurements and talked about what we had in mind for the kitchen. He's going to work up a plan and give us some ideas plus a quote of what it will cost.

I'm anxious to see what he comes up with. We should be hearing from him by the end of the week.

In the meantime I am dealing with this radiator...my nemesis.

It's giving me trouble because I cannot disconnect it. I've drained the radiators so I can pull this and the radiator across the room out of the way to get to the flooring underneath.

I've got the left side disconnected, which only required loosening the connection with my pipe wrench. The other side is soldered into place and so far, it's not cooperating.

I made no progress on the floor today as I had a golf date with Mark.     

Kitchen Kontinuation

I'm slowly plugging away on the kitchen floor. I figure if I do a little work on it everyday, I will have it done in no time...which is equal to about two or three weeks.

One problem I have run into involves that radiator in the picture up there. I need to drain the system and remove the radiators in the kitchen. That's not going to be too much of a problem, but it will take time and will be my project for tomorrow.

When they put the linoleum down, they did not remove the radiators. They put the linoleum around the radiators. I can't get under them without removing them. 

Don't worry. It'll be fine.
 

Kitchen Man

Today was the first day of the rest of the Kitchen  Floor. We are going to be in battle, that floor and I. I will eventually win, but it will NOT be without casualties.

I started about 10:00 and stopped for the day at 1:00.

I have removed 18 square feet of a 400 square foot kitchen space.

I can tell you that a sharp saw blade makes all the difference. I've also gone from 60 to 24 teeth so it tears it up pretty good.

I am doing this by myself right now because Susan is down with Covid. This is Day 2 1/2. So far, I feel fine.

I'm happy to be doing this on my own right now because I'm trying to figure out the process. One thing I learned today is to cut small squares. It's much easier to pull out a small square of floor in one piece, which saves on clean up and searching for nails. 

Kitchen Floor

I am not counting today as the start of the Kitchen Remodel. But I did take some distinctive action.

I got out my circular saw and cut out a section of the kitchen floor. I wanted to see how easy and/or difficult it was going to be. It turns out that it is going to be easy but difficult because it's going to be slow going. 

I didn't do any more than this small section because my saw blade is so dull. I went out and bought a couple new blades that I hope will work for a while.

I went on YouTube to look up some videos on removing a sub floor and it appears I am doing it properly.

So, tomorrow, I'm going to hit it hard as soon as I finish mowing.   

Plugging a Hole

A while back, I discovered this fairly large hole in the base of our foundation right next to the basement door.

Susan discovered it a couple weeks ago and insists that it be fill in. Susan is the reason that anything gets done around here.

So we went out and bought an 80 pound bag of mortar today and went to work on the problem. In addition to the hole, Susan worked on a couple of other areas in the outside stair well where the mortar has turned to sand.

We found rocks around the yard to fill in the bulk of the hole and then slobbered mortar into the space.

It looks pretty good and now the mice will have to have to find a new way to get in. I'm sure there are plenty of other holes.