Today, I started putting down the maple flooring that I bought to fix the bad areas. Here’s my first row.

I didn’t zoom in here, so you can’t see the somewhat large mistake I made. I should have started using two of the longest pieces I had for the first row. But since I had to cut off the tongue on the boards so they’d sit flush with the old flooring, I instead used some smaller pieces. This led me to have a joint where the two boards didn’t line up properly. I should have fixed that before I nailed them in completely, but I didn’t notice until I started on the next row. Oh, well. I’ll know better for next time.

Here’s how it looked when I was finished for the day.

Tomorrow, I should really fix that hole in the subfloor before I do anything else. Then I’ll also lay down some paper I bought. Mickey told me to get tar paper, but I don’t know what that was or where to find it. I bought some brown contractor’s paper, that sounded like it’ll do the same thing. I guess we’ll see.

Have to say that so far, I’m happy with how it’s looking.