Dusty!

We will all be glad when we can finally stop sanding the drywall.  Even though we cover the cabinets, table, etc, the dust finds its way everywhere, probably with the help of our air conditioning ventilation.  In any event, I believe we only have one more course of spackling to apply to the ceiling and wall where we removed the dividing wall.  The wall extension needs at least one more coating before we can paint. 

The photo on the right was taken just after I applied this evening's coat of spackling.  It should be ready for sanding in the morning. 

Our plan is to finish painting the ceiling and walls on Friday, and start nailing floorboards on Friday or Saturday.













Since the new floor is 3/4" thick, I had to saw the bottom of our door trim with the miter saw.  The original oak threshold will be re-installed and was sanded today and sprayed with several coats of polyurethane.







I connected and tested our new compressor and floor nailer this evening.  The compressor came with a bunch of 1/4" fittings, but the nailer requires a 3/8" male NPT fitting.  I spent the better part of an hour combing Home Depot for the fitting, and finally found an adapter that works perfectly.  I loaded the nail magazine and fired off a few test shots into an old piece of flooring that we had from the last time we installed Bruce flooring (15 years ago, as I recall).