Hi, I am Bob Vila, Welcome home again.
We've made a lot of progress here since last week.
The hardwood floors have been installed in the kitchen.
It's a beautiful maple floor.
I'll give you a look at that, as well as some tips on how you install a herringbone patterned floor.
Then we are also taking a tour of a plant that makes water purification systems, KinetiCo.
They're out in Cleveland.
We're also installing a system here.
And my friends from California Closets are paying me a visit.
We're going to try and figure out the best way to it put in custom closets in the master bedroom.
Stick around, it's good to have you home again.
Bob Vila 's Home Again.
We really are getting to the point that it's exciting and frustrating because you see so much finish going in that you feel that we ought to be able to move in the next week, but we're still not ready to install kitchen cabinets.
The kitchen floor has just been done.
It just has one coat of sealer on it, and its a maple floor, which is I think, a very good choice for a kitchen area.
And take a look over here under the window.
We retrofitted some of the original hot air registers that are here, the old cast iron ones, and refit them so that we will actually have the hot air coming through here.
Which is where you want it, right where you have the windows.
Windows have been put back in place.
And if you notice, this isn't finished.
We've only run the plaster down this far to where we have a ground, it's called, a piece of
wood .
And the reason for that is that were we're going to have real old-fashioned wainscoting in here.
It's going to be out of poplar.
It will be painted but that's not in from the mill work yet.
Anyhow, the kitchen is at that stage, almost ready for cabinets to come in.
We've already got some of the holes in the floor for the waste pipes, for the plumbing.
I'm standing where we're going to have our kitchen sink.
And it's going to take a good month to install all these cabinets.
But let's go into the den where we're putting in a herringbone floor.
Okay, this room, of course, is pretty special to me because I'm considering it as the home office.
Hi, Riley.
Hi, Bob.
How are ya?
Good.
This is really getting along very Very quickly lets talk a little bit about the material that we use for a padde herringbone pattern like this.
Okay, what we're gonna this is a odd edges for a herringbone path from the suppliers.
It comes in various lengths and it's cause the architect wanted a large herringbone, were bought at eighteen inch pieces.
So every single piece that goes in here is eighteen inches, and how its milled?
Its milled the group on all three sides-- both sides.
Grooves on both ends, and on one side then a ton on the other side.
That way we don't have to worry about having lefts and right, you can just go ahead and set them down.
Now this is really select oak , right?
There's no knots or anything on it.
Right.
This is white oak.
This is sort of like...
And what does that do to the cost?
Basically it well, brings this cost up to three Thousand dollars and fifteens over gain today, can I buying regular?
Is about a $1.85 a quart.
So this is about a dollar thirty more expensive than the regular strip oak.
Right, yep, that's what it is.
Okay, now, who is -
We have, John Doe is here.
He's putting it down for us.
John, how are you?
Good.
You've been installing this type of floors a long time, have you?
Yes, years.
Really?
So does it take a lot more time to install this than it would a regular strip floor?
Oh, as much as four times.
It took us -
Yeah.
- much longer than the regular floor.
Four times as long as a regular floor.
And we figured out that this room has about 225 square feet?
Yes, 225, right .
And it's going to end up costing almost two thousand bucks for this floor.
Yeah, eight bucks a foot is what they told us.
Just about that, yes.
John, show us how you actually put these pieces together, would you?
Let's just watch.
So, you're letting one overlap.
What's, why do you do this for?
Try to check the angle of the.
The angle, the edge.
Yeah.
For the next one.
I see.
And then you just nail them with the power nailer.
With the power nailer.
Go ahead.
Now is he shooting nails, or are they staples?
No I've got these brass, they're two inch galvanized staples, and they go right straight in to the sub floor
Wow.
And that's through oak, so you wouldn't be able to do it if you have the compressor hooked up to it right?
No not all.
So now, tell me what this red line is for John.
This is the center line of the room.
Oh.
OK.
So that is the most critical element, right?
This is more like a control true line, so, we make sure this is where
This point has to be.
Have to be lie up on that line.
OK and then what about when you go to sand this floor, is there anything special you have to do?
Well, we have to sand it at an angle.
So you have to go, in one direction with the big drum sander.
With the drum sander and then we have to sand the other.
And then you have to go in the other direction.
Yeah.
In the other direction.
It's like mowing the lawn twice.
Twice.
Yeah.
Big job OK well were going to come back and see you a little bit later in the show to see if you've finished.
Yeah.
And were gonna have to break for some messages.
