Flooring Part 1

I'm gonna post our flooring adventure in more than one post. Our undertaking of new flooring has been quite a project for our family.
We decided to tear out all the flooring on the main level: all carpet and linoleum. The linoleum was the hardest part but luckily we had many helpers.

 Ellie loved helping the most I think. She worked side by side Spencer doing whatever he asked her to do. She got pretty good at taking heavy scraps and pulling staples.
Tate loved using the hammer even though it wasn't at the most helpful of times. But he made sure to do it himself, we couldn't help at all

The worst part of our project was pulling flooring from the mudroom and front entry. They were just small spaces and it was hard to maneuver tools and bodies. 






The next section we tackled was the kitchen; it was a beast! We had to do it over the space of several days. But once again, our kids were more than willing to help. Sometimes too willing and they got in the way! They really liked using the pry bar to pull up the floor pieces. Only having so many tools caused a problem in the sharing department.But eventually they worked it out and worked well together.

 This is the dining room the kids are working in. Tate loved using the Cat's Paw tool and sort of got the idea of it.
Ellie got pretty good at pulling out the staples from the under-lament. Which was just fine because this was the most annoying part.
Ayden did a good job bouncing around helping each of us. He would pull scraps out to the backyard or help Tate with a piece of floor.

After awhile, Tate got bored of helping and found better things to do: playing shooting game with the baseball bat and the hose sprayer from outside. Whatever works!

This is the living after Spencer pulled out all the carpet. Luckily, he had the day off work on Friday and was able to get a good chunk of the work done. I came home from work to no carpet. It was a happy sight for me because I've hated our gross carpet for quite a while.