Did you hear that?

I love the sounds that houses make. There are creaks and pops that often go unnoticed because they are so consistent. It is only when I don’t hear them that I even pay attention.

As the prep work for our floor project has been going, our existing floor has been taken down to the original sub-floor. In this case, it’s 30 year old plywood. It creaks and sags and pops when we walk across it. To be able to install the new floor, we have to add 3/4″ plywood and we have to level the areas were not built at the same level and/or that have settled since 1977. They finished leveling everything and laying the new plywood just a couple of days ago. What a thrill for me to see the fresh wood which means that my vision is finally coming together! The next step is the new floor.

There is something I didn’t visualize, however. New floors don’t have old sounds. Yes, we still have the pops and creaks in other places, but the new floor is solid. It doesn’t wiggle and sag and dip where it used to. I am not interested in going back to the old floor, but I find myself listening as I walk across it and hearing nothing.


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