Aaaaaand no floors in the new house
So, I went to Home Depot this morning to rent a hardwood flooring nailer:
And they said "Sure! Do you have the nails for this device?"
"No," I replied, "I was hoping to buy them here."
"Well, there's a problem. No store within about 60 miles has the nails for this machine. We haven't been able to rent these machines for about a week due to the shortage. Although… yeah, there's hearsay that there's a Lowe's in Glen Burnie that has some nails. But Home Depot, Lowe's, even local hardware stores are out. Manufacturer's defect, we guess. Either that or 35 store managers simultaneously forgot to order them."
So, I call all the Lowe's in Glen Burnie. I finally find one that has nails!
"Yeah, I got some nails for a flooring nailer, about 200."
"Oh. I'm gonna need about 4000."
"Sorry man. Oh yeah, and this is a manual flooring nailer."
So, no hardwood floor installation this weekend. It'll just be painting, and maybe some wiring if we feel ambitious. We could still use help painting, but if you can help us out next weekend (as we just ordered the necessary nails online, and they'll be here by Tuesday), that would be the preferred weekend of help.
We're using professional movers this time. I'm not sure we'd be able to get by on friend-help, given red_lynx's proclivities of owning things like too many books, and rocks. Target date for the move is the 29th or 30th. This means that we won't be renting out the old place until probably October.