It has been forever....for flooring too.

I know it has been forever since a post.  Well we haven't don't much with the house!  It was a very mild winter, so we had no stories of freezing pipes or snow.  We have been shopping though for future plans.  One of these plans was/is to replace the flooring in the kitchen and dinning room.  Both have linoleum from probably the 60's.  Frankly it wasn't really too ugly, considering how old it is.  But, it was breaking apart leaving holes in the floor. So for years we have covered the holes with rugs.

Then we found sticky back tile, for 22 cents a sq. ft. at Lowe's this past winter...needless to say, we bought almost every box!

It is hard to see what it looks like so here is another picture with a few tiles on the kitchen floor.

So now that it is warm, and we can take the wood stove out of the house, and 

I am out of school, work can begin. Hooray!!! With the tile picked out, let the work begin!

                 

     

Look what I found behind the gas stove, which hasn't been moved in about 6 years!  Our cat, Cashton, was delighted to have his balls back.  Sorry dogs, your rawhides got trashed.

Here we have the hot and cold turn off valves/pipes for the washer and kitchen sink.  The last few months the kitchen has smelled musty, I think this is why.  There is a small leak here and the floor probably has some water damage.

 yep, definitely water damage as part of the sub floor comes up.  Oops!!!  We may need some help regarding this issue.  so Help!!!  I will leave it alone and continue on....

A few hours later, with not too much difficulty I got it all up, vacuumed and cleaned. There are a few spots of glue I couldn't get up so it will need to be sanded.   But for now, it is almost ready for the new flooring...which will be done in a week or so when we are able to have Cliff's father come and help us.  Yay!!