New bedroom floor

The room we made into our master bedroom came with moldy blue carpet.  Needless to say, we removed that immediately.  The remaining floor was grimey plywood subfloor.  We tolerated the subfloor since October by hiding it under a piece of carpet remnant.  Back in March, I bought bamboo flooring on clearance, with the hope of installing the new floor over spring break.  That didn't happen, so the bedroom floor went on the "finish before fall or bust list."

The floor installation took 3 days, plus 2 mornings later in the week to install the last board.

Saturday: demolition and prep
One of the highlights of the floor install was ripping out the base boards, that apparently were soaked in cat pee.  We had never noticed the smell.  Once I pried one corner off, the smell was liberated, and man was that gross.  I patched all of the seams in the plywood so we could level the floor.

With cat pee baseboards

Without cat pee baseboards

Sunday: floor leveling
The sub floor sagged in the middle so we applied Henry 555 self-leveling floor product.  It worked just like the Internet said it would.  It was critical to have 3 people.  I was pouring, and Matt and a friend were measuring, mixing and washing.

Monday: floor installation
This ended up taking all day. The Roberts adhesive I bought was like alien goo.  This was the first sign that we were in for something special.  We glued the first row down with ease. When we went to "click" the second row into the first row, the boards wouldn't go together completely.  Matt called the manufacturer to see what the problem was.  In the mean time, the 4 gallon bucket of alien glue was drying a nice film on the top and the first row of boards were rapidly, permanently becoming adhered to the floor.  Turns out the problem was that the flooring was last manufactured in 2002 and slightly warped.  Since we had no warranty to void, we decided the best option was to remove one of the tabs on clicking tongue and groove, so it would just be tongue and groove (no more click).  That meant chiseling every single floor board.

We did it with great success.  You can't tell that we had to modify all of the boards to make them fit.
Here is the final product.

We will install the baseboards after we rewire the outlets.