I got a lot of quarter round cut and in place (but not secured with the brad gun yet), and only have part of the hallway and the closet to finish before I nail everything down. About 15 years ago, we replaced the original carpet in the family room with hardwood floor. The quarter round that we installed at that time stopped at the corner where the floor had linoleum tiles in the hallway at a lower level than the new wood floor. Now that we have wood floor throughout the entire first floor, we needed to extend the quarter round. As luck would have it, the old quarter round is 3/4" x 1/2", so the new 3/4" x 3/4" quarter round couldn't be used in this spot. Take a look:
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| Old and new - not a good match! |
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So, Sharron and I popped over to Home Depot and got some of the odd-ball sized quarter round to finish the interface, which fortunately was just a short, isolated segment at the corner. Here is the finished corner prior to securing to the baseboard:
I know, the interface to the old stuff should be done with a 45-degree angle cut, but I didn't want to have to rip out the long section to the left just to fix something that is hidden behind the wall unit, so this is how it will be!
Meanwhile, Sharron and Amanda moved the family room couch back to the way we had it originally. Here, Sharron is pruning the carpet pad for a better fit.
Sharron also removed the hard drive from the old family room PC that we are disposing of. We still have some clean-up to do in the family room, but we are getting there.
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| Sharron into the guts of the PC |
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