Friend to the Rescue

Once again, a friend came to our rescue.
Les has been working on our floors for the last few weeks. The living room and front bedroom have really nice hardwood floors, which were in bad shape, so he has sanded and varnished them, sanded them some more... still working on them. The master bedroom and the third bedroom have poor quality pine floors, really a subflooring, with a lot of damage, but our plan was to sand and refinish those floors also, just make it work.

 
  A few weeks ago, on a Sunday, our friend Pam told Les that she bought a house which she is remodelling, and asked if we would like the wood laminate flooring she is removing. Yes. Sight unseen, not sure is we could use it, but yes. Last week, Les went to Pams and picked up the flooring, which was good quality and very usable. BONUS, the color went very well with the dark walnut that we have used on the living room floor. What a blessing that was. It could have been blonde or a red tone, but it was a brown that looks great with the other floor colors in the house.
Thinking that installing laminate would be a pretty quick job, I suggested that we stop working on the living room, and do the master, which is what we did last Thursday.
First, we moved everything into the living room.

The bedroom was a little lower than the living room, so we bought chip board for the first layer. This raised the floor to the same level as the living room, and also would help the floor have a more solid sound and feel.

 

 We then laid the ...whatever it is called that goes under the laminate...

 
Next, we brought the flooring in. Because the floor had been removed from another house, the boards were a variety of lengths.  We did not want to use all the long pieces and end up with a bunch of small pieces at the end, so we carefully laid the boards out, using smaller sections on the ends. It was a little like fitting a jigsaw puzzle together.

 We worked out a system where I measured the end pieces and passed them through the window for Les to trim.

 

When we finished laying the boards, Les did some clean up, repaired a few spots, then put a final coat of varnish, just to cover any scratches. And, here is the finished product. 

 

 
Beautiful! Right? I am so grateful. God provided flooring in a very unexpected way. Thank you, Jesus. And, thank you, Pam.