Speedy Gonzales

Bill said the grout lines would take me 6 hours. I was involved with this project for 7 hours.

My seven hours included:

Painting each grout line twice, going to town and having lunch with Mom and Dad, going to Lowe's,  vacuuming the floor three times. and painting the blue that still showed with a matching paint and then rubbing it off so it just stayed in the wood and you didn't see a line of paint. Not bad for a 7 hour project.

 Looks pretty good.

 Grout lines dry fairly dark and the Urethane will darken them even more. One nice thing is that grout lines don't have to be absolutely perfect. So if mine are a little off. no one will notice.

This is where I painted the blue that should be under a baseboard but this is an ounce of prevention in case it peeks out a little.

I vacuumed three times because anything left on the floor at this point will be there forever.I vacuumed up and down. side to side, and then corner to corner. Tonight at 9:00 we are putting the first coat of Urethane down. We will be putting it down every 12 hours for the next couple of days. If you just wait 12 hours between coats you don't need to sand. If you wait longer between coats you need to sand between coats. We will be putting 3-5 coats down.