Comedy of Errors

Installing the wood floor has been a comedy of errors lately....and one would expect no less when it's your first time to do such a thing.

We started out with an automatic nail gun bought from Home Depot....it fell apart when hubby whacked it with the hammer to drive in the nail. So back to Home Depot it went. Hubby came back with a new one. Guess what? It did the same thing. I don't know if it was user error or if there is seriously something wrong with Bostitch QC. Who knows, but it went back too. By then steam was rolling out of hubby's ears, and he doesn't get upset that easily. If it were me, I would have thrown it across the room, drug it outside and driven over it a few times. ;)

After this return it was off to the local rental place. Where hubby rented a pneumatic nail gun...which you need an air compressor for. Both were rented on Sunday afternoon right before they closed for the day.

Guess what? They didn't check the hose attachments and the hose didn't fit the nail gun. Apparently Sunday was not meant to be. Monday I got it squared away, brought it back home and guess what?

The air compressor wouldn't work. We plugged it in to a direct power source. It ran long enough to test it out and then wouldn't turn back on.

Are you noticing a pattern yet?

I took the compressor back, they gave us a new one....

And it works. My one complaint is that the compressor, while plugged into a direct power source, only works for a minute at best. You have to keep turning it off and on, and then after a few times let the air out of it. It's pretty inconvenient.

BUT-It works! And is doing a great job so far. Hubby is about half way done...and it looks great. I can't wait to get it all finished! :)