Floor Finishing and Interior Walls

The last few days we've been busy getting ready for the drywall phase which involves ticking quite a few items off the list: Framing all of the walls on the upper floor and installing the ductwork for the Heat Recovery Ventilator. While I've been working on those jobs, Karen has been filling and re-sanding the floors and was finally able to put on a second coat of urethane this afternoon.

Flooring Patching and Sanding

Working towards getting the floor finished, we've spent the weekend patching some of the larger defects (Saturday) and sanding (Sunday) getting ready for a coat of finish. Although the reclaimed fir was a lot of work to get installed and ready for urethane, we are really pleased by the results of our work.

Flooring Day 2 (Just Plugging Away)

Following another day of fastening floor boards in place we are now approximately 1/2 way through the job. While more boards are being prepared (cut to length, sanded & whitewashed on the underside), Karen has begun cutting and installing the Yew plugs in the screw holes. So far for half the floor: 660 plugs cut and glued in place.

Flooring Day 1

A very productive day fastening down our reclaimed flooring on the beam structure. The flooring was acquired last fall from the demolition company who had removed it from the roof of an old hangar on the Comox air force base. The material that we installed today was cleaned up, metal fasteners removed, planed down and re-tongue and grooved for us by Pacifica Reclaim and has been drying in our garage since it arrived. We are fastening it down with screws which will be plugged with Yew.

Flooring Preparation

Karen's sister Jan and her husband Russ were here for a visit on the Easter weekend and kindly assisted us in moving our flooring material from the garage where it has been drying nicely on the warm floor for several months to the house in preparation for sanding, finishing and installation on the beams. The next few posts will detail the whole process!

A Couple of Milestones & Some Insulation

So, this marks the 100th blog posting for our New House site along with a year ago today that the footing forms were begun. I've enclosed a picture of the house foundation excavation which shows the state of the project 365 days ago!

Our hard working crew from Insolex were here on the Easter long weekend to complete the insulation for the house, so we're now nice and cozy there and ready to head to the next stage: flooring.