On Sunday Amy persuaded me to get cracking with laying the wooden floor in the box room. We have only two more weekends to get everything done before baby Mia arrives.
I have never laid this type of flooring before but after some research on the Internet I made a start. I started by laying a single board facing the direction of light against the left-hand wall. I placed a couple of spacers between the board and the wall to accommodate contraction and expansion. I then cut the next board to size and fashioned a simple template to follow a line around the door moulding. After this, the job was repetitive with the only hassle being that I had to cut around the radiator pipes and make another template for the left-hand door moulding. The very last length needed to be cut lengthways which took a while to get right because the wall was not quite square.
Jake came up a few times to help tidy up the off-cuts but I think the noise of the jigsaw was too much for him.
Ames did lots of activites with him while I was working. He made glittery fireworks pictures for his ‘About Me’ school book and also made some apple parcels although he wouldn’t eat them afterwards because they tasted too strongly of cloves.