Team Mario Returns

Our next trip was dedicated to installing our flooring.

I was so much work installing the first six boards that Gerald decided to call Mario and Robert. Gerald would cut and feed boards and Mario and Robert could install them. Mario is a good worker, and fast. We figured they'd get it done in a fraction of the time it would take us.

But it was slow going, even for them.

They worked until 8 o'clock or so in the evening and had just gotten to the point where they were laying boards from the guest room into the master.

Mario, Robert and Gerald got back to work about 7 a.m. the next morning and made pretty good progress. By noon, they had completed most of the guest room and all of the living room and were working in the master.

What a difference a floor makes. With every milestone, I kept expecting our place to transform itself from a construction site to a home. Nothing ever did. Not the walls, the appliances, the installation of the kitchen cabinets. Until the floor. Now, for the first time it looked like a house to me. Of course, moving the tools out of the guest room probably helped.

By the time Mario and Robert called it quits, nearly all the floor was laid in the master, which Gerald felt he could finish up.

In addition to a little in the master, we had a couple of feet left to lay in the guest bedroom. We think we'll have enough wood to finish, but it will be close.