New floors!

We gots new floors, in the living room and hallways, anyways. The installer came yesterday and got started, and came back and finished up today, except for the transition pieces around the entryway tile, which never got ordered for some reason. They will come back and install those when they come in. As soon as Pat wakes up from his nap hopefully we will get the furniture moved out of the garage and back into the living room.

Our new flooring is called handscraped Maple, and is an engineered hardwood that locks together. No glue or nails. We learned in our flooring search that solid wood requires a wood underlayer, and since we have a concrete slab, no go. We didn't want laminate since we went that route in the Ridges. The solution was the engineered hardwood. It's a hardwood layer (pretty thin, like 3 mm) bonded to a plywood base, in our case a total of 1/2 inch thick. Mosts engineered hardwoods are 2mm layered for 3/8 total thickness, so we got a little better product, I think. Looks good too. It was made in the PRC though, so it's probably laced with lead or sewage or something I don't want to know about. We got it at Lowes, and they contracted out an installer.

Happy upcoming 4th of July!!