Laying the Floorboards

The next big job that we had to do was to lay down the floating floorboards. This was a huge job and it took Dave a few weeks to do the whole house (he was also working at the time and he was supposed to be studying as well!).

Here's the living room before the floorboards were laid.

Phil was our resident expert on laying floorboards, so he came over to show Dave how to lay the floorboards. Our friend, Paul, also came over to help. They had to measure and cut the underlay first (the blue stuff). They've just started to lay the floorboards in this photo.

Here they are making progress. As you can see, they worked into the early evening.

Here's Phil directing Dave and Paul, offering guidance when he wasn't otherwise distracted.

Paul came over the next day to help Dave again - what a champ!

It was quite fiddly maneuvering the floorboards around the doors.

Dave finally finished the job about 4 weeks ago; he's such a trooper. Now we just have to finish painting the skirting boards and put them back so that the house is no longer cold. We also need to put the doors back on - the job's are never ending...