Sorry it has been a couple of days since I posted I will catch you up on my activities.
We were set to begin the second phase of our remodel, laying down beautiful Bruce Hickory natural wood flooring and I realized the fireplace was going to be an big big problem.
Our fireplace did not have a hearth as it was even with the floor so being natural rock this caused allot of jagged edges uneven surface. To have the 3/4" hardwood flooring butt up against this and look anywhere decent was going to a near impossible.
Solution was to build the hearth up so I did 8" as this was all I could for clearance to the insert.
Fire Hearth Build Pictures So I took Feb.3-4 to build it. The pictures are dark sorry the camera didn't do a very good job.
Began laying the floor on Feb 10-11. The start up was to say the least tough. First you need to lay the tar paper but the real problems was getting the swing of things as you would guess my darling wants the floor set down on a diagonal and this is much much harder as to begin there is allot of cuts. To make the cutting easier I had to go to Lowe's to buy a table saw to make the straight.
Hardwood flooring Before and During Construction I have added the pictures to their own page as the images would take too long to load together.
I will add some really good tips as I go as this is still a learning phase for me as well.
One neat tip I have is not all the pieces are straight and fit well so you have to push them together. Easier said than done especially if you don't have help as some of the pieces are hard to push together without a special tool, and when one board gets off this keeps moving across the floor so here is an easy solution I came up with and really works well.
Cut yourself a couple 2 by 4's about 6 inches place them on the floor flat up against the board you need to push together put a couple nails behing the secound one and hammer in wedge between the boards. Sometimes this is all you need to do sometimes you need to leverage and push them together. This really works well pull the nails out and keep moving . For the ends this is a tricky area as you can put one of the cut 2x4's long ways and butt the other against it nail and apply pressure with the wedge. The good part about this is you can get the nailer in this area beside the 2x4's and nail the boardtight.
I didn't think of this till Sunday as I was having a hard time getting the boards tight and nailing all at the same time. With the studs it is much easier for me as I am putting it down pretty much by myself.
I will post more pictures and tricks as I go.
God Bless,
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