Wow, I am quite proud of how much McGee and I were able to get done this weekend. We were busy! One big thing that we didn't actually do ourselves, but it still a huge thing off our list, is that we had our new oven/stove delivered!! The oven that was here was not working correctly at all (it would LITERALLY take over 90 minutes to preheat the oven... We tried like 4 times), so we ordered a new one and had it delivered on Saturday! We couldn't go with a gas stove (there's no gas to this house whatsoever, and it was going to be such a crazy ridiculous/expensive process to have a gas line run to the house), so we got an electric stove, and it works so great! Electric stoves have really come a long way.
Isn't it pretty?? :) It works so great.
We also changed out one of the thermostats (we have 3-zone heating, so we have 3 thermostats... and one of them was quite old and wasn't working properly... ), we installed a flag on the front of our house, and the biggest project of all: we made some huge progress on the hardwood floors in my soon-to-be office. On Saturday (after the stove installation) we purchased a few new cleaning products that we'd heard could work wonders on the adhesive that was stuck to our hardwoods, and we scrubbed for a long time, but it was becoming clear that we were fighting a losing battle. And we calculated that we've each probably spent about 12 hours scrubbing those dang floors. So, we decided it was time to sand the floors down, and refinish them (we'd been trying to avoid that). Saturday at 5pm we went to Home Depot and rented a sander, and this morning we got a start on sanding them. We went through SO many sandpaper inserts because they kept getting coated in the tar-like black adhesive that was stuck everywhere, But, I'm happy to say that we now have some well-sanded floors that are FINALLY not gross sticky messes. They're just waiting for some stain and few coats of polyurethane. I think this week sometime we might try the stain (we got a few samples from Home Depot, so we're going to try to find a close match to the original color so it matches the other rooms and the hallway).
Here's a picture from this morning, before the sanding... So you can see what it looked like after TWELVE hours of me and McGee scrubbing it with various cleaners and adhesive removers. There was still soooo much sticky texture everywhere.
This was a particularly bad area... We got the adhesive up (with some MAJOR scrubbing), but that's what the floor looked like underneath. It was SO stained...
Here's McGee just starting to sand!
Here's about halfway done... You can still see some of the sticky black areas, after many sanding trips.
And here they are after! And I'm happy to say that they are NOT sticky anymore!! There still small bits of black staining that went deep into the wood, but most of it is awesome looking. We're excited to see what it looks like after we apply stain and polyurethane!
And here's the flag in the front of our house! McGee is super happy that we finally got this up.
I hope you all had a great weekend! I'm SO excited for The Walking Dead Season Finale tonight!! AHHHH!!!
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