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Old 07-10-10, 04:02 PM   #6
Jimmy2Feet
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Default Re: Filthy and messy jobs

decided one Friday afternoon to rip up the floor in the living room, (we live in an old cottage!) and replace the really old battered floor boards with some that my parents had taken up from there place, (same age but been covered by carpet for 100 odd years so in much better nick, but still had the character) slightly miss understood what it would take to do this job with only the other half to help!

Got them up OK, cutting and relaying not too much of a problem, but my back was killing me by this point. then came sanding them back. I had hired a big floor sander and an edger, however by the time came to using the sander it was 6.30 Saturday afternoon, i realised that the floor sander didn't work!!! and being that i needed to finish the job, oil the floor, and get all furniture back in my the end of Sunday.... i ended up doing the entire floor with only the edger and a small hand held belt sander!

I have never been in so much pain in my life!! being bent over and seeming to get no ware was so de-motivational you would not believe!! and to make it worse the misses went out on the Sunday and wouldn't help so i was left on my own to do it!!!!

It was a killer!!!!!!!
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