Fixing the floor

Any time you pull up flooring to expose hardwood underneath, you are taking a gamble. Our gamble payed off mostly, but there are definately some areas that needed some work. Because the floor is 80years old we were unable to match the wood exaxtly, so we improvised a little. Actually the end result turned out to be a lot cheaper than replacing flooring and will look okay in the end. We had long since given up the hope that the floor was in good enough condition to refinish, so we are simply going to paint it. The replacement wood for these repairs was salvaged from other parts of the building that we are taking out. The smaller patch was actually part of a windowsill in a wall that we removed. The larger plank was cut from a sturdier piece of subfloor.

Here is a picture for 12/20/07. You can see that the cealing has been painted but that there is still a lot of work to do. We took a week off of work for the holidays, but are back at it.

For consistancy, all of the images on this blog are from roughly the same angle. This way you can scroll down and see how things are progressing. This picture was taken a couple of days ago, so there has been more done since then. The ceiling has been primed in preparation for the paint that will go up tomorrow, so it is currently gray, but will probably be black the next time I put a photo up. The terrible wallpaper in the front room is now gone as well. Progress was slowed somewhat over the last couple of days because with this snow/rain we discovered 3 holes in the roof, and I was up there in the freezing rain patching them. The roof will eventually be replaced, but for now the priority is on fixing the broken water main and getting the shop open for business. The roof can be done at a later date. I will go up again and make sure the patches hold, but hopefully the roof can wait until spring.

Wouldn't you know it!!!!

Ok, so we finailly finished all the electrical, HVAC and plumbing issues, and it was looking like we were going to come in under budget, and then our water main broke. So much for staying on budget.

Other than the water issue, the place is starting to look good. Most of the Demo is out, and we have starting with painting the ceiling. Right now it is just primer up, but we should have the ceiling in the main room finished by the end of the weekend. The new ductwork is so shiney and new that I considered leaving it silver, but shiney doesn't last long, so it will go black with everything else. So while a Jan 1 open date may be a little ambitious, we will get pretty close to it I think, Taking Chrismas off will slow us down but we will get some work done between holidays.

This picture is the Same view as the pictures in the posts below. Although it looks a little more cluttered, there is progress being made. You will see that the drop ceiling is out, and what you don't see is that some of the floor has been pulled up to reveal the hardwood underneath.

The following is a photo update of our progress sorry some of the photos are low quality, many of them were taken from my phone.
Photo 1: This picture is looking from back to front when this was a Cricket Store. Notice that you can look through the little window and see a yellow wall that separates the front from the main part of the store.

Photo 2: This is the same view as of 12/2/07

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