Little by little

The right combination of paper and poly!

Here is the final experiment with the paper flooring experiment. This time it actually looks good! It's amazing how much time it actually takes to do even a small portion of the room that is done here. Talk about feeling things that you didn't know existed on your body the next day! I know I'm not terribly old, but at 37, kneeling and bending over through this whole process for just this little chunk made me feel about 100 the next few days. Looking ahead to finish the rest of the flooring in the longer space was not something that I was looking forward to doing... but with only 1 month to fix the place up as good as possible before my junk arrived, just had to focus and plow through, suck it up and go!

lead test spot near the middle left edge on  wall

Of course, with a victory comes a speed bump...lead, yes lead! So, the cheapest legal way I found to fix this was encapsulation with polyurethane....wonderful! That is something that i have a ton of! But still, not too excited about that. So, eventually got a lead test and everything is ok so far!