Our Ruined Wood Floor

We’re homeless again! Our house isn’t finished and the people we were house sitting for came home 11 days ago. We’ve been staying with friends and family ever since. It doesn’t look like our house will be finished any time soon.



We were getting the floor finished last week when we discovered, after staining it, that there were long deep marks all over it where the insulators had cut their insulation. On our wood floor! I was so devastated. I didn’t know what we were going to do. John, our contractor, and Chris and I spent two days sanding the floor on our hands and knees trying to get the marks out.

Chris and I were going to spend all night on Friday finishing it when I finally gave up. We had to use such heavy grit sand paper to get the marks out that it left swirl marks all over the floor. I had had it. We were never going to make it look right! I told Chris that we were done the insulation company was going to pay to fix this. He thought that was the best idea he had heard all week. We stopped everything, got up and went home to shower off the three inches of sawdust that covered us.

I got a hold of John the next morning. I didn’t understand why we had tried to fix it in the first place. I guess the owner of the insulation company had been out of town all week and we really did think we could fix it ourselves. They both went to the house Monday morning and he apologized and said he would make everything right. He said that John had told him not to cut on the floor and he felt terrible about what his guys had done.

I am so relieved that everything is going to work out but it does put us back a few more weeks on completing the house. The floor will never be the same because it will be sanded smooth instead of having that rough rustic look but I have to move on and just be grateful that it’s fixed.