Batchelor pad floors - day 1

The time has come for the floors.  This is exciting because once the floors are done in the living room and kitchen - we move out of the bedroom, get it done and get moved.

Peter had to go to the office this morning (why does that seem to always be the case?) so I started the morning by clearing out the living room.  This was the hardest part because we just don't have room for all this stuff.  We are going to have to move it all back and forth like we did for the walls.  Right now all the stuff that was in the living room is shoved into the kitchen and the bedroom.

I cut the carpet into 4 pieces and hauled it all out to the barn. 

I quite like the reddish color of the carpet pad. But it had to go too.  As well as the tack strips and all residual glue and gunk.  I managed to get the pad up in one piece - I even managed to get it to the barn in one huge chunk.  I think I'm getting muscles.  Peter came home just in time to help me get up the last of the tack strips and goo.

We brought the boxes of flooring in from the car preparing to get to work.  Cleverly, we read the directions first, and they stated emphatically that the flooring be installed at room temperature.  Sigh.  House:  65 degrees (ish), car: 40 degrees (ish).  Whoa Nelly.  Stop the presses.  Hold everything.  Keep your pants on.  Cool your jets.  
 
So now, the flooring is inside and nearly everything in our world is displaced until the stupid stuff warms up.  sigh..
 

 
Tomorrow we should be able to get serious about laying down the new floor in the living room.  Then we'll need to move all the stuff from the kitchen to the newly laid floor in order to work in there.  It's like we live in a Cuisinart.