Day 7

Got the border around the hearth done and put down some more rows. Ran into a snafu though. One of the boards on the end decided to warp a little over night so I glued a 1 footer to it and applied pressure. It'll have to set over night so that is the end of rows today. I also had to pull up a couple of rows because two joints were about 2" away from each other. Not only do I have to contend with board length, board color, but also width. Some boards are a 1/32" smaller than other ones. don't really notice until the next row goes down and a small crack is revealed...

 Keys still there

 Hearth border done

 Hearth border corner

 The other corner

 The kludge to hold pressure until glue dries

 Break time cheese

 What is done so far

Another view of the kludge