Done with bamboo project, mostly

The flooring guys finished up on Tuesday. We've moved all the furniture back and the remaining work is mostly deferred organization -- sorting through stuff that should have been disposed of ages ago, thinning files, etc. The hard surface of the flooring makes the house sonically "live" when compared to the old carpet, which takes getting used to. It's a bit springy because of the thin padding underneath (a so-called floating floor, not glued to the concrete but to itself so it can expand and contract.) I'll post a gallery later when I have time.

Last night we ventured out for the first time to ECR club night. Saw handlebear, who was looking really lively, and of course excessor was his usual charming self. We were too tired to dance, alas. So next week we need to get some floor time to prepare for Convention.

Bamboo Floor Project Gallery

Here's the Bamboo Floor Project Gallery I promised. Punted the gym today -- I was just too tired.

There are lots of little consequences to changing over to wood floors -- we've had to put felt dots or rubber cups under most of the furniture (so you can slide it without marring the wood) and will be shopping for a nice area rug for under the coffee table, plus a few runners for special situations (like next to the beds and high wear areas.) More shopping fun awaits us. We also had to rip out the built-in shelves in Mike's office, since they interfered with the installation and weren't nice enough to keep permanently, so there's another shopping trip (and Ikea furniture-building session.)

There was so much sawdust on the bottom of the pool I only finished cleaning it today, and I'll put in a new filter since the old one is beyond its design life. These filters are basically big paper filters, rather like a 3' tall car air filter, and after a few years no amount of cleaning will fix them.