Getting it right, six years too late

The new vinyl is down in most of the kitchen and it looks pretty damned good.

Kevin Brewer of Brewer Custom Floors and More of Avon is doing the work. His crew foreman told me yesterday that the reason the old vinyl didn't hold up - the seams kept separating - was because the drug-addled morons who installed it didn't staple/nail down the underlying luan properly. Just for the record, we paid more than $3,000 to Home Furniture in Lebanon, Ind., for that wretched job in the spring of 2001. The owner, Steve Smock, sent the same bunch of dopes up a couple of times to re-seal the seams and they always opened up again because the luan was moving around under the vinyl.

I had a feeling we were in trouble when one of Smock's workmen confided to me that he (the workman) was a recovering heroin addict.

Anyhow, we're well on our way to having a house we will truly hate to leave thanks to Kevin and his guys. They're nailing down the luan in the upstairs bathroom right now, preliminary to putting down the same pattern of vinyl there. It replaces a really nasty, stained tan carpet.

The new bathroom floor. Ignore the crappy cabinet, woodwork and wallpaper. One thing at a time...