Dirty Dirty!!

Today was a good day, slow to start but it was a great day. Last night I was a volunteer working at a casino...so in bed by 3:30am.....so it was a late start. Once I got going though it was rewarding. Today I was concentrating on cleaning the cross members of the frame under the floor, it's a dirty job but someone has to do it!


40 year old rubber seals that were placed under the plywood floor have turned hard...hard like rock.

But a little elbow grease and an angle grinder with a steel wire wheel...

There were layers,being the onion that it is, a strip of rubber seal, then a yelllow...adhesive?...under that a layer of tar/wax/sand sealant(likely from '49)

Again another surprise...in behind the "baseboard" (what I am grinding in the first picture) a blade screwdriver, likely not from the 40's, it does have a plastic handle.

Sunshine, above zero...not bad for January