Hardwood Flooring
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Ever seen a birdseye maple hardwood floor?  I hadn't.  Now I have one.  This page covers only laying the floor - not sanding and finishing.

Here's $4500 worth of wood.  I still have about 200 square feet left in their original bundles.  Anyone interested?
First the rosin paper goes down to provide some isolation from the plywood subfloor and moderate vapor barrier.
As bundles are opened, the boards are arranged so that the interesting ones are in highly visible areas, and there're no obviously contrasting neighboring boards. 
Thank goodness my father did this tedious task or I'd still be nailing.
In attaching the 3/4" strip flooring, each board is slid into the previous course (it's all "tongue and groove".) and tapped home with the rubber end of the heavy flooring hammer.
This is the flooring nailer - a completely manual, back-breaking device that simultaneously pulls the board tight and drives a nail diagonally through the tongue so that there's no nail hole visible.
It usually takes two full swings of what must be a three pound hammer to set the nail in this extremely hard wood.
This is my helper, Tigger.
The bar area before sanding, polyurethane finishing, and of course, the bar.

 

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