Mo' Flo

We still have more floor to work on. tonight, I began tearing into the flooring in the back hallway. I have no doubt that I wrote about this when we pulled up the linoleum but here we go again.

We need to replace the flooring leading to this room. You can see that it is different from the flooring at the bottom of the picture.The door to this room used to be where the flooring transitioned. But somewhere along the way, probably when the house was transformed into two apartments, they moved the door and built a closet and a linen closet.

Well, we like the closets and so we are keeping them. But we need to make the floor look consistent.So, just like the other day (but without John) I cut into the flooring where I want to remove it. Then I began the task of prying up the boards. I didn't have to be quite so gentle this time because I wasn't planning on saving these boards. It would have been nice to save them but not imperative.

That was lucky because saving them was not to be. For some unknown reason, someone went under the house and screwed a row of screws through the underlying floor and into these boards. That made it very difficult to remove them in tact.

I can only surmise that these floor boards came loose at some point and the fix was to fasten them down with screws from underneath.So after only a couple of hours, this is the progress we made. The main thing is that we did something rather than sit around and watch TV like we usually do.

One other note of importance; we ordered a door yesterday to place in the entryway that will be an alternate entry into this room. One may recall that we thought there would have been a door into this room originally, but apparently people from 100 years ago don't think like us!