Living in a Construction Zone

We have now completed our first week of construction on our upstairs main living. Last Monday afternoon me and the kids started removing the carpet from the main hallway. My back would not let me do a lot, but giving Damien the hammer and telling him to take out the tack strips was fantastic! We might have to hire him out to a deconstruction team!

Then it took almost 4 days to get the 'hardwood' out of the entry way. The builder had glued it down! It was so thin and flimsy it ripped to shreds when we tried to pry it out! It was a mess that kept on coming. We finally took a shovel to it to get the wood out and a scraper to get the glue off the floor. Yesterday (last night really) Shawn finished laying the tile in the foyer. He will be back on Friday to grout it and then we can start on the real hardwood floor.

I didn't expect it to be such a mess. We have the basement apartment to live in so it is not really that much of an inconvenience... but since we spend most of the day downstairs, I don't get to clean much upstairs, and it is really piling up. Most of the flooring is plywood sub floor...and still has drywall dust from construction! I sweep it once a day and it is still so dusty it is setting off my allergies!

Once we start on the tile in the kitchen it will start to get inconvenient. I have a kitchen downstairs, but getting everything I need out of the main kitchen to the downstairs is going to be rough. I really need to stock the downstairs kitchen better! (but then again, the dishwasher is upstairs, sooo....)

So far the tile is looking great! Shawn has done a great job and it looks very professional. I can hardly wait to see the kitchen done.

So, until I get my floors finished I am 'roughing it'. At least for me this is roughing it!