Floors

So, we have decided to refinish the floors ourselves.

We got a price from a company that we knew would be the high end of the scale. We were prepared to go to $1800 with the budget we have made. It came in at $1800. For one floor.

The whole point of us doing the floors now wasn't because it was a priority. It is as much because the house will be empty and we won't be living there yet. So to spend most of our initial remodel budget on floors seemed like a poor use of money. Only getting half the house done also seemed equally pointless.

We knew we could get a lower price, but that we would also get a lower quality of work. Which led to us discussing whether high quality was important to us. Normally it would be, but the floors in our new house are not perfect. They are patched, they are stained, they are worn down. Trying to make the floors look like a showroom floor would be near impossible and is not something we necessarily want in our house.

Once we talked about not hiring the best, we quickly decided to hire the cheapest - ourselves. We feel like we will do well enough, thanks to anecdotes from friends and YouTube. We also know the worst that can happen is we have to hire someone to come in to fix what we have messed up.

We expect it to cost us about $500 after renting sanders, buying sandpaper, poly, supplies and beer. We plan to do the sanding the first weekend in our house. We will see how it goes...