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Category Archives: 1st floor
You’re Invited!
This coming weekend, July 18 & 19, is our next Work Weekend and your chance to be added to the Wall of Awesome. Here’s the plan: Garden Apartment Paint bathroom Install shower surround Install tile in bathroom & back entryway Secure gas … Continue reading
Posted in 1st floor, 2nd floor, 3rd floor, bathrooms, bedrooms, garden unit, Wall of Awesome
Tagged drywall, electric, electrical, newark, nj, paint, painting, refinish, renovation, row home, row house, rowhome, satin, semi-gloss, tile, wood, work weekend
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Refinishing: Day 2, Progress
Day 2 of refinishing the floors is complete and visible progress has been made. Although, it does look very similar to Wednesday’s progress – LOTS OF SANDING. I stopped by the house Thursday afternoon at lunch with my coworker. There … Continue reading
Posted in 1st floor, 2nd floor, 3rd floor, Floors, JDL Flooring, Product/Service Review
Tagged floor, flooring, Floors, hardwood, newark, nj, refinish, refinishing, renovation, row home, row house, rowhome, wood
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Refinishing: Day 1
Wednesday, JDL Flooring started on our house. We met with Jon, the owner, a few Saturdays ago during our big basement demo day. Our tenant hadn’t moved out yet so the 2nd story was the only floor sans covering. It … Continue reading
Posted in 1st floor, 2nd floor, 3rd floor, Floors, JDL Flooring, Product/Service Review
Tagged before, floor, flooring, Floors, hardwood, newark, nj, refinish, refinishing, renovation, row home, row house, rowhome, sand, sanded, sanding, stain, stained
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Floor Prep
The floor refinishers started bright & early this morning but yesterday evening was spent prepping for their arrival. Sure we spent almost all day Saturday tearing up carpet & flooring. And yes, we had all the trash hauled away Monday. … Continue reading
Clean Slate
Saturday we vanquished the gross flooring the previous owner left us. While I had already ripped up 2 rooms of carpet, there were still several rooms of disgusting left. We chose to divide & conquer. That meant we never really … Continue reading
Space vs. Historic Accuracy
I’m taking a break from thinking about our garden apartment for a day because I’m currently preoccupied with our 1st (aka parlor) floor. While we were at the house ripping out drywall Monday evening, we met a couple of our … Continue reading
Posted in 1st floor
Tagged city, demo, demolition, newark, nj, renovation, row home, row house, rowhome
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