We finally got around to laying the finished floor. There were 90 boxes of wood all weighing about 30kgs each. It is 3/4" thick and 4 1/4" wide red oak. I had to use a scrap piece of board and a lump hammer to get each board to seat, then you whack it with the pneumatic air gun which fires a staple into the plywood sub-floor. Each staple has resin to glue it in place. It took 8 days of backbreaking work just to do the ground floor. Thankfully, it comes pre-varnished.
For the upstairs I enlisted help and got my very handy friend Alex to fly over from UK and fit it with me. Only took a week most of which was Alex's work.
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