On Thursday during the day I started removing some of the moulding in the kitchen to get ready for our floor install on the weekend. It was so tough to get out and really deep under the existing floor. This was confusing.
Then when Steve came home and we started trying to figure out how to join the wood with the next room we discovered a small (huge) problem.
The dining room was a good 1/4 inch or more lower than the kitchen floor. WHAT!?!?! I was really confused. We knew the kitchen floor was a second layer put in sometime in the 90's, but we also knew that the same linoleum tile was in the hallway. The flooring guys just went right over the linoleum in the hall to keep things even. How could they be different levels with the same flooring?
We soon discovered that the top layer of floor was glued onto a 1/4 inch plywood board, fastened down with L cleats.
So we ripped up the boards, which wasn't that hard.
And then we ripped out hundreds and hundreds of these L cleats. 1 cleat every 4 inches.
It was not what we had planned for Thursday night, and I had to miss my favorite TV shows. But it wouldn't be a DIY project without a punishing labor intensive surprise. Lets hope this is the only one!
