Step Back and Regroup

Last week I went to buy the flooring we had planned to use in basically the entire house except for the bedrooms.  It was a new flooring sold by Home Depot and looked like hand scraped wood but was waterproof and very durable.  It was a mechanically locked together flooring system.  What I liked was I thought I could do the whole house in a day and it would look decent.

When I went to buy it they didn't have enough boxes and while waiting to order more I noticed a bunch on a pallet that had been returned.  When I inquired I was told some people were experiencing problems with the seams not holding.  Red Flag!  So we decided to re-evaluate our plans.

The result was that we will no do a more conventional system.  Ceramic in the hall and bathroom and solid wood floors in the family room and kitchen.  It will add about a month to the project completion and will be a LOT more work to install but at least I will be comfortable in knowing how it will perform and last and I will not have any seams coming loose.

So I spent the last 2 days installing the ceramic.  I still need to grout but I got the tiles installed.  Two days on my knees and bending over tested my endurance.  Ah hour before finishing I started getting back spasms but it held up long enough to "get er done".