Flooring!

Flooring in my closet started.

Tonight I started laying down the first of the flooring with a couple of my friends. You can see one of my friends in the photo above-Mastercraft 3-in-one pneumatic flooring nailer. Here's the other friends that helped me out tonight:

 Porter Cable 3807 sliding compound mitre saw and Coleman powermate 27 gal. compressor.

This was the first time that I have used the flooring nailer. I bought it on sale at CT for the cost of renting one for a week. As I can only work for 2 hours or so at night after the kids have gone to bed, renting for a week would not have gone far. The first couple of boards that I put down did not go well. The nailer was shooting a staple only 1 in 2 or 3 attempts. I started to think that I have a dud tool, then I looked at the mechanism. It seemed that the most obvious reason that it would have a misfire was if the staples were not feeding well. They were a bit stiff loading, even though I had bought Bosch brand staples. I looked for some dry lube to ease the action, but I couldn't find my can. Next choice:

Finish Line Showroom flooring nailer lubricant.

I sprayed it on the channel where the staples insert, and didn't have a misfire for the rest of the evening. Worked like the proverbial charm. Tomorrow I hope to finish the closet floor then I'll install the Ikea Pax wardrobe that we bought. I'll try to get to the rear subframe re-assembly, too. It was too cold in the garage tonight-warm temps forecast for the next few days though.