It's Lino Laying Day!

Wow - time surely does fly by when you are too busy working on other things than finishing the house. But here we are in December - Happy Sinter Klaas, by the way - Dutch Christmas. This little project is our gift to each other.

We 'booked' our good friend Bob to come over today to help, so in order to make the job go by quickly, we ripped up the kitchen before hand: removed the island, filled in the holes & gouges in the floor & vacuumed about 60 times!

We also had to make sure the lino was relaxed, so we rearranged the living room to make way for the large sheets of lino. Already the place looks different!

Phil got in there quickly with a nice sharp pair of scissors - a sharp knife might get away from you & leave you with a slice in the wrong direction! Measure 6 times before you cut...

The hardest part of it all was getting it placed properly over top the pipes from the island. Required a lot of slight adjustments before the knife was put to the lino & then a bit of fun as the accoustical glue was getting onto everyone's fingers...

Bob was teaching Phil how to get the lino cut in as close as possible to the cabinet & wall edges. A proper tool is essential & we are glad that Bob came fully prepared.

Now it's Phil's turn to get in there with the tool - a bit of tucking & folding & cutting under the cabinets & we are almost done!

Ta-da!
The edges of the lino will be taped down til we can get the laminate floor in towards the end of January, but the rest of it should be fine! We'll let it relax for about a week & then see how it sits before caulking any of the edges.
No glue in this job, baby!

Area 2 is the entrance. Not a square piece, but the job went by faster as Bob & Phil were now comfortable working together. Phil showed Bob a few tricks with his Dremel Mult-tool & they got the lino in under the door frame without having to remove the frame!

Completed entrance way!
Well, except for the baseboard, but that will come along after the laminate.

Speaking of laminate - I completely forgot to post the photos from our October laminate floor project. We found some beautiful laminate at Costco - of all places - & bought enough to do the office. We thought we would start with a small area before attempting the rest of the living/dining room.

There is a sound-proofing backing already on the laminate & we just had to click them together! Very easy & once again - no glue baby! We were astounded at how much 'stuff' we had stuffed into the office - it was not useable space til we had to haul it all out to do the floors. Now, it's much better organized & we have the room to install the Murphy Bed system & have a comfortable place for guests to sleep.


Well, that's about it for now - the laminate flooring will be in Vacouver just before the holidays, but we won't get it to Bamfield til after we return mid January. Hopefully the sun will be shining just as bright in Janaury as it was today when we install that! We also have some other projects lined up - one big one is a landscaping project to try & solve our flooded front yard situation... we'll fill you in on that as I think I'll be starting that in February.... before the spring rains come & flood us out again!