Sunday

On Sunday morning we were really racking our brains trying to figure out how to coordinate all the parts so that we would have it ready for installation on monday. First off, we had 2 plasterers over to remove the concrete range hood. It came off pretty easy, but took a big chunk of ceiling with it, so now there's a hole in the ceiling and a dodgy section of plaster on the wall. They have covered it with black plastic so giant spiders don't come to get us in the night.

Next we had a plumber in to take out the old taps and put in new ones. The new sink is going to be almost in the exact same spot as the old one, so thankfully it wasn't a huge task. 

The gas man called to look at installing a pipe for the new gas hobs, but he said he needs to wait until the cabinets are installed before he can do his part.

So now we needed to get a ceiling guy to fix the hole. Then an electrician to move the sockets around, and when they were finished, the plasterers would come back and plaster the whole room to get it perfect for painting. It made sense that if we could line everyone up to start their tasks on Friday, we could do the floors now. This was at around 12 o clock, so we raced down to bunnings and got everything we needed. 

First the lino had to come out.

Leaving loads of glue:

We got a glue dissolving paint and then used little scrapers to get the worst patches of glue up. It was like shaving the floor. Very time consuming. 

And then we had to seriously fly though the sanding, as we have small kids next door and didn't want to have loud machines going all night. So we gave the drum sander 3 passes to get all the glue off. 

And then 3 passes with the edge sander to finish it up. 

And there we have it, beautiful sanded floorboards. Richard was over at this stage and gave us a hand with washing in preparation for staining:

At around 10 o clock we put down stain and went straight to bed. Our weekend was much harder than our working week!