I have been so stressed this week over the kitchen floor and have sat down and just cried. I’ve been feeling really selfish about it though because it’s Easter weekend so I should be focusing on Christ and the sacrifice He made for me and know that all He went through was so much more than I could ever imagine having to go through. My piddly little issues are nothing compared to that so I feel very fleshly even being upset.
We found the problem with our floor on Thursday night. As we got ready to go to bed we went in the kitchen to look at the floor and almost half the floor tiles were buckled up. The floor guy was here all day Friday trying to fix the problem. Apparently, for some reason, the luon underneath was being pulled up as the glue dried so they had to use a hair dryer on each tile and peel it up, put more nails in the luon then glue the tile back down. They stayed here until about 8 p.m. that night working on it. The hallway by our bedroom still hasn’t been done at all and now we are going to need more tiles to finish the job and they are on backorder and won’t be in until Friday. I had to call Lowes again and cancel our delivery of appliances for Saturday. The question is, whose fault is it that this has happened so who needs to pay for the extra tiles we now have to buy? The floor guy says the luon that Mike bought was bad but Hershel thinks the floor guy didn’t put down enough nails in it to begin with. He said he’s put in at least 30 of these kind of floors and has never had a problem with any of them before. There are still a few more tiles that need to be redone and hopefully it will be grouted on Monday. Oh, and also where the new addition was added, the floor is not level with the old floor so you can see a slant in the floor along the line where the bay window was. Very frustrating. The backsplash was put up yesterday and will be grouted tomorrow. It looks great and I love it. Our kitchen table was delivered on Friday is in the living room for a while I guess.
Hershel is at the airport right now leaving for a mission trip to Mexico for a week so that leaves me here alone to deal with the kitchen issues. It’s been a very stressful week but I’ve been trying to just put everything in perspective and remind myself that we live in a fallen world and nothing in this life is going to be perfect. Maybe the imperfections in the floor will be a good reminder to me each day that the things we have on this earth are just temporary and the perfect home awaits me in Heaven one day. I’m sure after my trip to Chad, Africa I will just be thankful that I’m not walking on dirt floors! It’s all about perspective!
New "imperfect" floor
Finishing the backsplash
Hanging over counter lighting
