Kitchen floors are a lot harder than I thought: Part 1

So, putting in a vinyl tile kitchen floor is supposedly one of the easiest floor replacement methods. I am starting to wish we had just floated a laminate floor, now! Ok, maybe not. I don't even have a saw.
First, we had to level allllll around the edges of the floor, where the plywood was ripped off by the adhesive on the former flooring. This was a giant bitch to do because the patch becomes basically unusable like 47 seconds after it's mixed (ok, 8 minutes, but that is like NOTHING). 

I am a bad example please do not use this as any sort of reference

Next step was sanding out the leveler because it was all bumpy due to the whole drying out in 4 nanoseconds thing. We did the sanding by hand, because we are crazy. Beer was was an important tool, very necessary for this step.

Please pretend you don't see my buttcrack

Then we tried using the shopvac to suck up all the dust from sanding. Hahahahah that went reallll well. In case it's not obvious, I ended up sweeping the dust because our shopvac sucks. I swept 3 or 4 times, then Adamo went around with a microfiber cloth stuck on a swiffer to pick up the rest while I cried dusty tears.

creeper shirt + face mask = ???

FINALLY, on Monday we were able to apply the primer. I did the edges and Adamo did the rolling because I fail at rolling. We let it cure for 48 hours, but it was still pretty sticky. Hopefully that's ok??

We left a little path so that we could turn off the kitchen light. We forgot to leave a path for the stove light, though!

Priming is pretty tiring.

awwwww

Tonight we started laying the tiles and hopefully tomorrow we will finish with the laying and the grouting and the things. Please cross your fingers for us. I will update when we are done!

Megan out!