We have two weeks til we have to get everything off the wood floors so they can be refinished. That includes, three spinning wheels, breakfast room table, four chairs, three bar stools, dining table, eight chairs and a chest that’s in the foyer.
The plan is to push the sofa up into the middle of the living room and move the dining table into the living room. I suppose we’ll stick some of the chairs in the living room too. The breakfast room and those four chairs will go into the sun room. The bar stools will probably go into the living room, the chest from the foyer will go into the living room. I hope it all fits.
The sun room had become the dumping ground for things that go in the house but there was no place I wanted to put them. There were at least 6 cases of empty canning jars, two canners, two stove top pressure cookers, two boxes of lids and rings and all the Christmas stuff that goes into the attic. Nicole has to put everything in the attic so I need her to be here before the end of the month.
Anyway, I’ve made at least a dozen trips up and down the stairs carrying cases of empty jars, as well as the extra coffee, pasta, rice, canned tomatoes that we’ve bought lately that ended up at the edge of the stairs waiting to be taken down.
I’m tired! Dinner today is leftover tomato soup, salad and toasted cheese sandwiches if Vince wants a sandwich. We had a big breakfast – grits, eggs, bacon and biscuits, so I’d be happy with just a salad but the soup needs to be eaten.
For now, I’m back to cross stitching for a while.
Cindy F says
Good luck with all the moving! It reminds me of when we had to clear out the living and dining room, kitchen, laundry, and our back room off the laundry. We moved things into the bedrooms and garage. Even had to empty the fridge and put it on our deck and covered it with a tarp incase of rain. It was a huge job and I think I will live with any kind of scratches rather than do that again! We were warned that when moving things back into the house to be extra careful as the finish would take even longer to completely set up. They worried about the wheels of the fridge making marks on the finish so we had some masonite in two pieces around and used it on the floor to move the fridge back in. I forgot but we had purchased some portable air cleaners because of all the drywall dust during renovation and having them downstairs was helpful. Oh and I forgot, we covered the island and some things with plastic to try and keep the dust off from when they sanded. Since your rooms have openings to the area being sanded you might want to consider doing that. You will get through this!
judy.blog@gmail.com says
Ours is all being done by the insurance company (not ours) and they are sending someone to do all that before the work starts. The floor guys said they have attachments that suck up the dust as it’s generated so we shouldn’t have too much but . . who knows. I’ll lay all the photos down and move all the “stuff” off surfaces and put it inside cabinets so they can cover everything.
We can’t put rugs back on the wood floors for 2 or 3 weeks so we can’t put the tables back in there. The only thing we need to do is get the furniture out of the rooms with wood floors, then they cover everything, the guys come in and re-do the floors, then I think we just stay off it. When we can move back onto the floors, we’ll have to uncover everything.
Cindy F says
It sounds like the insurance company is trying to do the right thing which is good! Great that they are doing most stuff but still unfortunate that it had to happen in the first place. I’m sure you will be glad once it’s all done.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
The insurance company has been so good! When I was talking to the appliance salesman yesterday, I made sure to tell him how I happy I was with the way the insurance company was handling it.