Friday, October 28, 2011

THE BATHROOM SAGA – new flooring 7


The linoleum required gluing down. This was obvious when noting it shifted slightly each and every day. I purchased two tubes of extra strong glue and managed to warn my son not to go into the bathroom for 2-3 hours. Luckily, he had decided to pushbike ride to Hazelmere and back, taking several hours, anyways.

This difficult task was done by firstly placing the lino in perfect position and then lifting a corner to move a 1/4 into the air at a time. I covered the hole-ridden vinyl linoleum below in squidges of glue and relaid the new linoleum on top of the gum. Luckily, this and a quick pat down sufficed. I am now ready to chop a chunk up for the windowsill and then move on with what is left over to the next place - the toilet.

This is going to be much more difficult. Currently there are pieces of carpet over newspaper over floorboards. Therefore, if I try to glue linoleum down, it will be directly onto the dusty floorboards below....

This is the end of the bathroom saga - for now!

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