Floater floors

The youngest child and the middle child set out to build a floor. Here's helpful hints of what to do when you build your own floor at home. For best results, use only outside and on unevan tarrain.
What you'll absulutly need:
A really cool looking tool belt
A leatherman
Knife
wood
A safe and clean working environment
Rusty Nails
Hammer
Tape measurer
four hands

The last three things are optional. If you don't have a hammer, you can use a large rock. If you don't have a tape measurer for measureing the distance between supports, the youngest child suggests,"Just lay the supports about one of your foot size apart from each other, that way you can check it with just a step." Well the youngest child will help ya there. If you don't have four hands(your a freak) just take off your shoes and socks and use your toes. If you don't have nails......this project is doomed from the start don't even try, step away from the hammer!

The floor shoud be strong enough to hold a snowmobile or two and resourcefull enough to use all the old wood from the decks the demoliton child tore down.(You know who you are; and so do a lot of other people too for that matter, including those fire fighters). Its okay if you don't have that kind of wood laying around, new will work just fine; if you would like to hire the demoliton child so you can have old wood, well its a bad idea, but you can ask on the comment page if you dare.

Next, and going a step even further toward using up old stuff, the middle child and the youngest child strongly suggest useing up the old nails, which may or may not have come from the decks. Rusty or trusty doesn't matter as long as you have a sure hand and have someone else hold the nail. The middle child suggests' using a hammer, and "hit the nail on the head." The youngest childs suggestion for crooked nails, "Make sure you hit it over the straightest part, not necessarily dead center on the head." We here at the newsy news letter offices strongly suggest using none crooked nails.

Once you have all the nails you think you'll need, go back and find twice that many. Okay, now your ready to begin. Lay six eight foot boards flat on their side, not up and down. You'll know why if your using old wood. Then lay one cross ways over the top of the other six. Okay, good start, now take a break.

Now you can nail that first board. Oh, make sure its flush with the edges of the support. it should look like this, __/ ....um maybe not quite that wide of an angle. Anyway, repeat process untill all your boards are gone or you run out of room. Be sure to leave a little crack between boards so you can lose things through it. And to let the wood breath. Nice job on the floor, perfect for a none heated doorless garage.

Hey, any handyman questions for our girls?