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Euclid Street Airbnb Reno Weeks 12-16… ish?

We have busy over here in Airbnb land. Here is what has happened in the past month:

We got a floor guy! We also returned our solid bamboo flooring for engineered click bamboo flooring (at his request). The price was very comparable and Yuri assured me the floating floor will do better in a Pennsylvania climate. Kasey and I have been checking things off the list that are nice to do when you have a floor that you do not have to be careful with. I splurged and got myself an orbital sander for refinishing floating shelves and the kitchen table I made (Kasey argued that it only invites more projects); I sanded and shellacked the kitchen shelves which are looking great. We also hung shelves, mirrors, towel hooks in the bathroom, updated a few electrical switches, hung a door to the basement, painted some left over things like door frames and added a new key button entry to the back door.

Before the floor could go down, it had to be leveled. We had a bit of a panic when the leveler started to seep under the wall and fill the utility room behind the tile wall. Yuri got it all fixed and I was very glad we let a professional take over. By the way, I also used shellac for the first time on these shelves and it was a glorious experience. I have used oils…while beautiful, they take days and days to dry and polyurethanes… which are fine but do create a plastic layer. It takes 15 minutes for this beetle excretion based coat to dry. Shellac… the solution for the impatient DIYers. FYI, it isn’t resistant to alcohol
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Euclid Street Airbnb Reno Weeks 10 & 11

Oh whoa is the floor. Dramatic, surely?… I say….barely. Herein lies the problem: Lauren wants a bamboo floor. I am stubborn and so is the house. We spent a lot of time staring at a floor postulating potential quick fix solutions, all leading to a lot of work and potentially a failed state of a floor. It turns out a smooth floor does not mean a level floor and a level floor does not mean there aren’t waves. We have a deceptively smooth, un-level and wavy floor. The best kind….. for carpet. Fifteen people have told me to carpet it. I reaaallly don’t want to do this. I do not think carpet is a good solution for longevity with short term renting and I’m just not ready to concede.

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