Stained Floors

I figured that it took me more than a day to get the floor done- so you shouldn't get to see all the pics in one day! That and, we "stained" the cameras into the closet and couldn't get to them! At the bottom of this post is the final floor picture!

This is what the floor looked like after we put the stripper on. More stripper=a lot easier to scrape. I was SO excited to see this and even more excited when (for the most part) it all just scraped right off.

Any guesses as to what this is? It is the sand paper for the sander! I have never seen anything like it- it was 20 grit. It looked like a roof shingle- We were so surprised that it didn't even touch the floor.

A pile-o-wax. Toxic wax. The stripper stung. I discovered that wearing shorts was a bad idea. All the bits that we scraped off turned the floor into something like a bed of jelly fish. I wonder if I will ever have to shave my legs where I burned them? That would be nice.

The LAST square!! OK- well we thought it was the last square until we started to sand and noticed little bits here and there. Dave and I ended up crawling all over the floor with box cutters scraping the wax off of the corners of the wood tiles. nice.

I think that Taylor lasted for about 2 minutes with the sander. Remember those "weight loss" machines from the 80s? it was this jiggler thing? you stood on a platform and wrapped this belt around your waist and it wiggled your tummy chub right off?? Yeah the sander is like that for your arms! I am pretty sure that a few hours with the sander did more for my arm wiggle waggle than P90x!! I am totally going to market this!

FINALLY we get to sand and have it....you know...sand the floor! (I know you are like--but you were sanding in the last picture!- but we still weren't sanding floor- Taylor was sanding off the stripped wax)

WOOOHOOO!!!! ALL SANDED! NOW we get to do the afore mentioned sweep and sweep and sweep some more.

"Why would they start staining in the middle of the floor?" you ask. Yeah, that wasn't the plan. We poured the stain in the pan and it was quickly apparent that there was a crack in the pan. Stain started to spread all over the floor! YIKES!

oooooooh so pretty.

OK- So there we were. I was finishing in the landing and Dave was doing a few stairs......we got a little carried away. The idea was that he was going to do a few stairs, so that I could get down and then wipe them off.....we overestimated the length of my legs. whoops.

AFTER Dave took this picture he actually decided to help me down. You would think that I would have learned my lesson, but when I went back to put on the first coat of "poly" I did the same thing.

ooooh shiny!

¡Finalmente! Spanish, I know random, but I accidentally hit the "option" key instead of the shift key to get an exclamation mark and discovered that it made one of those upside down thingies. So of course I had to use it!