New Flooring

Friday - Yesterday, I turned 70. I’m not really sure if that means anything to me. Hope and Richard made me a wonderful dinner. They are wonderful friends. My blood glucose numbers are higher than they were last year. It probably means that I need to take better care of myself, health-wise, as in diet and exercise.

Saturday - I hooked up the cargo trailer and headed to Home Depot first thing in the morning. The tires needed air, but other than that, no issues. I picked up twelve boxes of vinyl laminate plank flooring for the shed. The Internet says to put the flooring in the room to acclimate for 48-hours. So I still have my weekend "free". I have the room A/C running to help dehumidify the room. I have installed similar floors a couple of times, but never on a concrete slab. I'm told that I need to lay down a poly vapor barrier. I think that is going to increase the difficulty as it'll be slippery and challenging to walk on. 

Tomorrow, I’ll start moving things around the room and start prepping the concrete floor. 

Tuesday - I've been busy working on the flooring. I started laying it on Sunday. The vapor barrier is a real pain. 200 ft² of plastic sheet is challenging to deal with. The first couple of courses needed to be redone as it was crooked due to the wall not being very straight. But on the second attempt, it was looking good. 

The next challenge was the door needed trimming as the flooring added a bit over 10mm of thickness. 

But it’s done. Far from perfect, but the baseboard is installed, and it looks better than bare concrete or the filthy carpet that was originally installed. 

Next step is to move all of the stuff back.