Six of one, half-dozen of the other
posted by peppermint at 9:42 AM
I could have SWORN that when we had the living room measured for the carpet installation that he said the hallway was 4x3. Turns out it's more like 6x4 and I'm just a really poor listener. So all my "Hey, it's only 12 square feet" babble was a gross misrepresentation of the actual space.
Also grossly misrepresented was the amount of leftover laminate my mom had. What looked like a full box of the natural oak was actually only 3 full pieces and then the rest were ripped down one side (the "groove" side of the tongue-and-groove"). So I drove back over to my mom's house to rummage through her garage some more and wound up grabbing the leftover floor tile laminate she had - same idea, but made to look like 12 x 12 tile. I don't like it as much, Tom likes it more, but desperate times call for desperate measures so I tossed it in the trunk and headed home with it. As far as I was concerned, any floor was better than no floor.
Long story short, there wasn't enough of that either. We were a little *less* short with the tile floor, but still short. So basically the only thing Tom was able to do last night was remove the carpet tack strips from the entry area, then stare at two piles of laminate floor that we couldn't install.
This morning Tom from Independent Flooring called and asked if he could stop by and re-measure the hallway going to our bedrooms just to make sure the carpet they're installing tomorrow is going to fit. While he was there he asked why we didn't have the laminate down yet, I explained my poor observational skills, and he said he'd check his warehouse to see if he enough of any one thing for that space. We stopped at his store on our way into work and he had two boxes of maple laminate (plus a couple loose pieces) ready and waiting for us and they appear to be almost exactly the same color/finish as the oak, just with a maple woodgrain. So TONIGHT we will install laminate floor and rip up the remaining little strip of old, disgusting carpet we left down purely so the couches have something to sit on.
We have a little over 40 sq feet of laminate floor to cover our 24 square foot entryway so there shouldn't be ANY way that we could screw this up. Ha!
Also grossly misrepresented was the amount of leftover laminate my mom had. What looked like a full box of the natural oak was actually only 3 full pieces and then the rest were ripped down one side (the "groove" side of the tongue-and-groove"). So I drove back over to my mom's house to rummage through her garage some more and wound up grabbing the leftover floor tile laminate she had - same idea, but made to look like 12 x 12 tile. I don't like it as much, Tom likes it more, but desperate times call for desperate measures so I tossed it in the trunk and headed home with it. As far as I was concerned, any floor was better than no floor.
Long story short, there wasn't enough of that either. We were a little *less* short with the tile floor, but still short. So basically the only thing Tom was able to do last night was remove the carpet tack strips from the entry area, then stare at two piles of laminate floor that we couldn't install.
This morning Tom from Independent Flooring called and asked if he could stop by and re-measure the hallway going to our bedrooms just to make sure the carpet they're installing tomorrow is going to fit. While he was there he asked why we didn't have the laminate down yet, I explained my poor observational skills, and he said he'd check his warehouse to see if he enough of any one thing for that space. We stopped at his store on our way into work and he had two boxes of maple laminate (plus a couple loose pieces) ready and waiting for us and they appear to be almost exactly the same color/finish as the oak, just with a maple woodgrain. So TONIGHT we will install laminate floor and rip up the remaining little strip of old, disgusting carpet we left down purely so the couches have something to sit on.
We have a little over 40 sq feet of laminate floor to cover our 24 square foot entryway so there shouldn't be ANY way that we could screw this up. Ha!
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