The remaining joists were replaced, the strapping reinstalled and the floorboard postions measured up.

Saturday, Sunday

I brought home the one floorboard run that I marked up the previous day.

One position had changed and some of the other positions varied by 10 mm moving from side to side.

I used these measurements to update my gauge.

I also brought down a large supply of floorboards from storage.

Previously when I have prepared floorboard runs I have iterated through all steps for each run.

That is: choose floorboard lengths, mark up docking positions, dock, clean rubbish from the tongue and groove, mark up hole positions, rebate holes, drill out holes.

This time I am trying something new. I have completed all the timber selection and docking as a single batch operation.

I will see if this is more efficient.

I have prepared 28 runs in the last two days.

On the Monday public holiday I need to clean all these down and drill all the holes.

Monday

I spent half the day scraping rubbish out of the tongue and groove of each piece of floorboard.

I was surprised how long it took to clean up all 28.

Towards evening I started to make progress on rebating and drilling the holes.

Hopefully I can finish this off during the week during work breaks.

Tuesday/Wednesday

Completed the holes in all 28 runs

Thursday