Hard Work & Hardwood

This past week we opened and sorted the hardwood bundles so that they would be used to the humidity of the room they were going to be installed into. We sorted them into the different lengths. The lighter wood is birch, and the reddish wood is cherry.

The birch hardwood.

The cherry hardwood.

Then it was Halloween.

This weekend we began the installation. We rented a machine that knocks the wood into place and drives a nail in at the same time.
We ran the wood at at a different direction between the doors. We put the darker birch pieces in the short corridor.

Jeff, the Machine Master, in action.

We covered over the step between the kitchen and addition with a piece of 1/2" plywood.
We worked on both rooms at the same time, to utilize the machine as much as we could before returning it.

The dining room got the birch hardwood. The study got the cherry hardwood.Last pieces.All done!Leftover hardwood scraps used to fill in the holes in the kitchen floor where walls used to be.

The leftovers.

And then we moved and re-assembled the dining table.
Ben helped, using the screwdriver he always carries around.