Laying the Hardwood floors

     The old kitchen are had a nasty vinyl floor while the rest of the main floor was nice red oak hardwoods. We that means good bye vinyl and hello to stitching in new wood to complete the great room with all hard wood.

     The original hard wood was made from 1 1/2 inch wide boards. While this might have been popular in the 60's and 70's you will have a hard time finding that narrow a board today. Luckily after much searching I found some unfinished 1.5" at Lumber Liquidators. We bought enough to finish off all the floors in the house. Figured we would make the future dinning room hardwood as well.

     With my trusty helper Ben assistance we prep'd the floor for the wood. In order to make it match as best as possible and not have a straight seem where the old floor stopped we had to remove a bunch of the old wood to make staggered edge.

We rented the Floor nailer from Home depot. Fun little nail gun to use. You really have to give it a good wack.

Two full days later we have nicely laid tightly butted hard wood floors ready for sanding and stain