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It has been an abnormally long duration since my last imprint on the internet. To be fair, I did write about the first four days of our trip to Europe about a month after it happened. It's been a cascade of procrastination, a chain of 'I do not want to do that until I finish...'es that seemed to feed on itself. I've been picking at it like a knot and although it's loosening, the twine is spun pretty tight, but I found enough slack to sit down and write.

A lot of the work that I've been getting completed, is not the end of the road, but a first step towards a journey. An initial trip to Graham Auctions resulted in a little bit over 600 square feet of oak flooring. Excited as a school boy, I scrambled to get it home and started to research into how I would best install it.

Hindsight has usually shown that working out how to do something before you buy the materials results in a much higher success rate in getting what you want. Turns out installing solid hardwood below grade is a big no-no, unless you go through the steps of creating a moisture sealed sub floor. It is just as expensive as it sounds, and it takes away three inches of height in a basement that is already short. I'm happy that I managed to get the hardwood I wanted for upstairs, but the deal was a little out of order and I was still short something for downstairs.

Another trip to the auction house and I have a garage full of flooring. Now plans are for the living room, kitchen, hallway and computer room upstairs to use the actual wood, and having a dark walnut click together laminate in the basement. The coverage of the basement is going to include everything but the bathroom and laundry room. Again, another tile in the procrastination mosaic is placed.