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Liam's room with the stain on it

Our room with the stain on it

 Liam has been really good. He has limited play space and we have been working really hard on the house and haven't had a lot of extra free play time.  By no means do we ignore him or not play with him, but he just hasn't been the center of attention the past few days.  He has really been interested in helping.  As you can see in the photos below, he was trying to get going on the living room floors.  He would pick up a pair of pliers or a tool and start imitating  what we are doing.  I think he likes all the activity but wishes he could get a hold of the sander.  Jake and I started yesterday morning by renting the equipment at Home Depot. We started with a less aggressive sander and after several hours of sanding with not as much result as Jake expected, he made another trip back to get the Drum Sander or the more aggressive sander.  I did sanding with the non-aggressive one and Jake was in charge of the aggressive sanding.  Liam and the dogs really followed me with every pass of the sander. We were able to sand and stain the floors by the 7:00 pm last night.  The next step will be to apply the poly-urethane.  The stain definitely had a odor but we had the windows and doors open.  The poly-urethane is more volatile so Liam and Jake will probably be staying somewhere tonight while it is drying.  I think they look great so far and can't wait to see the finished product.  It will end up costing us around $211.00. This includes renting the equipment, buying the stain and urethane, and then after 9-11 hours of work we have managed to save ourselves a couple hour dollars.  Hopefully this will be done by friday and we can get the furniture back and get the house ready for the realtor to come and take photos.  Please know that my house is normally very clean, and pretty organized.  The photos below are not usually what our house looks like.  It's really insane that anyone could ever live like this, I feel like our house looks like we are hoarders.  Hope you have enjoyed the photos and the update! I will keep posting as the house comes along.  Happy reading!!

Jake's dust coated self..His hair looks like he is going grey on the side

 

Jake applying the first coat of stain

The hired help...Serious about sanding

He really prefers to wear a diapers and shoes only

The drum sander..aggressive sander

This is what Liam's floor looked like after  I removed the carpet

It had lots of paint stains and spills

Liam was trying to work on the living room floors

Cute little thing!

Jake working on our room

Liam's room carpet

 
Lately we have been working on our house to get it ready to sell.  We initially were going to do some minor fixes and paint the bathroom,replace the bedrooms carpet, minimal landscaping, and stage the house.  Well, that has changed, we have now added a little more on our plate.  We decided we could save money by refinishing the floors underneath the carpet and we needed to paint the "man room".   I also decided to paint out bedroom furniture and then we had to paint the room trim too.  We have been moving from room to room and the house is in complete disarray!! We are hoping to be done with the house by this weekend.  Here are some pictures off the floors and of course Liam!!

Non-aggressive sander... Liam was very curious