day 5 & 6

Yesterday was a seriously exhausting day.
It started out like this...


here's one of the many piles of tiles

The tile scrapper pooped out on us so we had to get rid of the rest of the tile by hand!


The final 100!!

THE LAST TILE!!



Now the store is tileless and it's wonderful. I have a lot of mopping days ahead of me. It's going to take A LOT of cleaning to get that floor ready for paint.

I think the hardest part of taking out the tile was throwing it away. By that I mean, loading all the broken tile in a wheel barrel and lifting it over my head into the dumpster. That. was. brutal. I had noodle arms.
Later that night our awesome friend, Ben, came by to help Riley fill this scary hole that's in the back of our store!! I'm so thankful for his help.

Yay for the beards!


Today Riley started painting the ceiling and right now Ben and Riley are putting down more cement and also smoothing out some bumpy spots on the floors. We don't want anyone tripping!

Day 4

Today we rented a tile stripper

And just like the paint sprayer we borrowed it didn't work at first and we had to fix it in some way. This tile remover machine was borrowed from a rent company and the bolts that held the blade in place were stripped. We knew if we returned it we would be out a day of working on the floor so we just went out and bought bolts to replace it. After that it still wasn't working correctly and figured that a part needed nuts so we went out and got that. This all took 5 hours. It took that long because we couldn't figure out what was wrong.


Once Riley fixed the machine it worked wonderfully and he was able to work on the floor. So he stripped tile and I swept the pieces in piles. The floor should be complete by tomorrow!!!!