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I got Mr Hippy Man’s estimate in the mail today. (I’m sorry I’m bad with calling people names, I have to stop that :) I have his list now of how much material costs and how much labor he is charging. To fix the subfloors and then put down new flooring would be $7289 total. Out of that total, he is charging $4500 in labor! Wow. I’m saving so much money by doing the subfloors myself. According to what’s listed on his estimate, I would need 30 sheets of new OSB board to replace throughout the house and that would cost $243. Not bad. I went to True Value today and bought myself one of those cats claw bar thingys. I saw a pink tool box there. Cute. I’m thinking I might have to buy that one ;) I went over to my house after work to start pulling up some nails. It’s not too bad. Lots of the nails come up real easy. Others are really really difficult to pull up. It’s like they’re in cement! No, it’s like they’re super-glued in cement! But I’m proud of me :) I didn’t break off one nail head. I’ve pulled up every nail successfully so far. The only bad thing is I think I have a splinter in my butt from scooting across the floors. Hey, do you guys know those knee pads that people use when they’re putting down flooring? I wonder if there’s butt pads? :)

And here’s a pic of my first sheet of subfloor I removed! YAY ME!

 

Guess what I’ll be doing all weekend? :)

Good news! I got an estimate for my gutters that I’m REALLY happy with! Yay! For all new 6″ aluminum gutters, 4 new downspouts, vinyl soffits and facia: $2279. That’s a VERY good estimate! I’ll be hiring them for the gutters. And it turns out they know my family cuz they helped fix my parent’s home when the trees destroyed it. Small world :)

Take a look at how many trees those bulldozers have cleared away now…

 

You can see houses now on the other side of the clearing! I wonder how many condos are going up?

 

 

I pulled up some more sheets of subfloor today. I’m making progress :)

 

 

 

I was able to remove the top layer of subfloors in my living room and dining area today! Yay! But I have a new problem. Last summer when I removed the old vinyl from the kitchen floor, it left a paper backing on the subfloor. This is covering the nails in the kitchen, so I can’t see the nails to pull them up and it’s really hard to get that paper removed cuz it’s glued to the floor. Not sure what I’m gonna do about this yet. Maybe a stud finder will help find the nails?

I took a video clip of the livingroom and dining area I worked on today. I’m happy I got so much done :)

I also mowed today. I’m so sore from pulling up hundreds and hundreds of nails and then mowing all the grass. Just lifting my arms to type on this keyboard hurts :( But look! I have baby rosebuds yay!

 

And look! Little baby daisies too! Aww :) I love daisies.