Today was supposed to be the day I cleared out the dining area and ripped up the rest of the linoleum. I started moving stuff out of the room, but got side tracked and ended up putting up a light fixture with Dave, clearing all the tools off the island so we can actually use it, and putting knobs on the cabinet drawers. I'll probably clear everything else out tonight and rip up the floor on Monday. We rented a floor scraper from home depot for the other part, but it was a hassle to bring home since it weighed like 200 pounds, so I'm hoping it won't be super hard to just use the hand scraper. The last few days have been a pain. When I grouted the first tiles under the appliances, I just did what the youtubes did and everything turned out good. Well, Dave decided to read the instructions which said to leave the grout in for 15 minutes before sponging off the tiles. By the time we tried getting all the grout out of the nooks and crannies, it was dried up. I was trying to get grout out with a toothbrush, it was midnight, and both of us were sore and had hurting backs, so we had to call it a night. Our bodies just couldn't go anymore. The next day I tried using different things I read that should soften the grout, but none of it worked. Then, I tried using a steel brush, what everyone said would scratch up the slate and you shouldn't use. Well, it did not scratch the tiles, except for one, which was a lighter sheen and thinner, but even that was easily buffed out. The grout just came right up, but I've been scraping tiles for days and it still didn't get everything. I got some concrete dissolver to help it along, but it's still a long process. I'm taking a break since my fingers hurt. Pictures of the kids having a contest of who has the biggest smile, new knobs, and a fly strip which a nice lady in my ward gave me after I told her we had hundreds of flies due to doors being open from renovations. The fly strip has over 120 flies on it. I got more and they have a bunch on them too.
