Day 3108

 I woke up about 8 and played games until 9.  Then it was up for pet stuff and breakfast.  After that I went out to the shed to remove the floor.

I started by moving the shelf out of the way along with a few things that were on the floor.  Then I started removing the screws.  Unfortunately most of them were filled with dirt.  I managed to clean out and remove about half of them.  I got out the hammer and crowbar and started prying up one of the patches.

The patch came up in pieces, but it gave me a start on the rest.  I used the jigsaw to cut convenient pieces and then pried them up.   I even had to use the Dremel to cut the places the sat on the metal joists.  At one point the Dremel died and I had to get the one in the trailer.

All of the cutting with the jigsaw ruined the blade because it would run into rocks and walnut shells below the flooring.  There are A LOT of walnut shells.  It took over two hours to remove just the one 4x8 piece of flooring.  I was hot and tired when it was done, so I had Ellen haul the debris to the burn pile.

I sat in front of the fan for 10 minutes to recover and cool off.  Then I measured out the 8 2x4 sections that I'll need.  There's slight differences in length for many of them.  I bought way more 2x4's than I needed.  I also measured the difference in thickness between the old floor and the new.  The new is 1/8 inch thinner.  That means I need shims to go on top of the metal joists.

I went inside to rest and have lunch.  After that we went to Lowe's for the shims, caulk, and paint for the top side of the flooring.  Then we stopped at DQ for a Bizzard.  It's Saturday.  The final stop was Safeway for groceries.

When we got home I cut the plywood sheet that I'd bought into strips for the shims.  By then it was almost 5 and I quit.

I watched videos until dinner - a frozen one.  Then we gave Abby a bath.  She really stank.  After that was more videos until bed time.