Getting a New Floor....Part 3

 

Day Three

If you've missed part one and two,

check them out HERE and HERE.

Mark and James arrive early
Monday morning to keep laying the
Faux wood porcelain 
Bedrosians Barrique Aspen Gray "gris" tile.

Mark puts tile against the kitchen

and family room wall,

and into the pantry.

They then move all the

furniture in the living room

onto the dry side of the room

and lay more faux wood
gray tile in there.

When he can no longer reach

across the wet area,

he tackles the coat closet

by the front door.

Mark says it was a difficult area because

he had no way to rest the palm of his hand

while he leaned in...a real back breaker.

 From there,

 he moves to finish up the hallway.

 

Then moves furniture in

the family room to the dry side, 

and lays more faux wood tile in there.
With that he completes day three.

Do you see the dust on the table on the right?
I'm finding that all over the house!!!
Scaping dust is on everything.

 

Tuesday
Day Four,

Mark finishes up the front room

and attacks the kitchen,
 under the dishwasher...

and under the fridge and oven.

 

He then does half the guest bathroom.

 

Mark starts grouting the master bath.

remember we chose
Spectralock #78 sterling silver grout

Spectralock is a fast drying product

so he works very quickly.

Gray grout for gray tile...
a pretty good match.

Bathroom done, BAM!
James has to wet the area with a sponge
so the grout drys evenly
and wipes up any residue.

 On to the hallway, BAM!

 Not long till the front room...

is mostly done,

BAM!

 Into the kitchen and

 family room. BAM!

 

On Wednesday, Day Five

 

Mark is back to finish up

and the carpet installers arrive this morning

for the bedroom carpet, and
whole house baseboards. 

Carpet went in fast...
(We went for a tight Berber weave
gray with flakes of beige and blue.)

followed by the baseboards.

Sam was out back painting them

as the installers were measuring, cutting,

and installing them.
 

master bath

I must say, they did a wonderful job.

 

master bedroom closet 

Unfortunately they were going so fast they

didn't take into account the closet doors needed

to close.
 

By the end of day five Mark was done,

tile was installed, carpet was in,

and
the baseboard install needed one more half day.

 

Day Six

The guys arrived early and worked through midday

 

Closet will now close but Sam and I will need to
touch up the area.

Those corner pieces cost money and

we didn't order enough

to go on the inside of the closets

so the installers pulled them out

to use in other areas. 

 

Kitchen looks good with the
gray grout and faux wood porcelain 
gray tile and new baseboards.

Hallway looks divine.
Sam even painted the walls a tan-ish gray
to compliment the floors.

A far cry from just a week ago, don't you think?

 

We still have a lot of cleanup to do.

You wouldn't believe the amount of dust

the scraping of the floors created.

 

Plus

Sam is still busy painting the living room

so I haven't quite moved

the furniture back into place yet.

I'll show more in another post.

 

Hope you all are having a Great October!

Ours certainly got better!

 

 Thanks for stopping by!