I never thought that I would have the luxury of writing a part of my blog on just how mundane de-stapling a timber floor is, but here we go. I reckon there was a sale on staples when they laid the previous floor, they certainly didn't want it going anywhere in a hurry. There were literally hundreds of the blighter's to get out. Some of them were easy, but some of them required a little more than elephant strength to remove. Ive managed to strip skin, and blister badly from using the pliers to remove them. Vic had the right idea and used the obvious and correct tool, pincers, and suffered no blistering at all. We had my business partner, Ken Lodge, on board with us today helping out too.
Some of the offending articles
The end result was 5 rooms done completely and some of the corridor too, so pretty happy with that. Managed to see a plasterer for a look at that side of things as well during the day, and he has given us some solid recommendations. The plumbers have said they will reconnect to the existing services as a part of their installation work when they re-connect the water supply too. So back in there tomorrow for a few hours more on my own (Vic has a job interview - go Vic...!! ). Personally I will be glad to see the back of it, but it WILL look nice when its all done!
Vic and Ken caught skiving outside....
We have also managed to get the application off to the Adelaide City Council for this skip, so hopefully by Friday, all of the rubbish will be out of there, and all the floors will be ready for sanding and polyurethane.
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