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Do you appreciate your floor?

I don't think you can really appreciate floors until you don't have them. Bill finished installing the subfloor in the upstairs bath this week. This weekend, it's out with the final layer of kitchen floor so we could level the former porch joists. We'd hoped to get the subfloor down too, but alas, no such luck. Many thanks to Steve for keeping Ruth occupied for a few hours today while we worked!

On the plus side, not having a floor means that from our dining room, I can literally see if the laundry is done in the basement. That's not teenage vernacular "literally", as in, "I will literally die of embarrassment if Britney shows that picture to Jaden!". When there's no floor, I can stand upstairs and see the washing machine.

You have to find positives where you can when remodeling. :)



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