GOODBYE LINOLEUM!     HELLO ELEGANT WOOD FLOORS!

Just starting to Remove Linoleum

The Linoleum Floor.

During the Difficult Preparations.

Linoleum is Gone, Sanding has Begun.

Sanding and Sanding

The Beautifully Finished Wood Floor.

 GOOD BYE LINOLEUM!  HELLO ELEGANT WOOD FLOORS!

The floors of the camp are a beautiful wood.  The dining room area was covered with a yellow faded linoleum.  Willi took off the linolum with some help from Marcia.  There was paper cardboard under the linoluem that stuck to the wooden boards on the floor.  He scraped and scraped off the cardboard as Marcia wet the floor every few minutes.

It was impossible to get it all off by hand so we went to Saranac Lake and rented a sander and edger.  Picked up is a funny way of saying it as it was extremely heavy.  The man at the rent a center gave us a wheeled cart as we had to cross the railroad tracks, go down the long path from the tracks to the dock, across the lake in the boat and then up the path to the camp and up the stairs. Willi and Marcia really worked to get it into the camp but made it after a long hard struggle.  Willi sanded from 6pm to 12am with time out for a watermelon smoothie.  We emptied four bags of saw dust and went to bed.  An hour later Willi couldn't sleep and said he was going back to finish the job.  So at 1:30am we got up, and Willi started sanding again.  I sat on the front porch and watched the sun come up over the water.  

Early Morning from the Front Porch.

We had rented it for a 24 hour period so Willi was working that entire time with just time out for a bite to eat.  Finally, we got it down the stairs, down the path over the water, up the path and over the railroad tracks to the car.  The car was dead so we had to call a taxi to come pick it up and take it all the way to Saranac.  It turned into an expensive task but we did get the machine back to the rent a center.  Willi polished and polished the wood until it shined.  What a beautiful addition to the camp.  This was a real labor of love .