We're having our floors refinished in about a third of our house. Sane people just leave home while they do this, but I'm trying to stay. It's a complicated job and has gone on for over a week already. Sometimes we can walk on the floor; sometimes we can't. It's been hard to find out from the floor guys exactly what to expect.

So in order to make plans (especially for DD's sake), I looked up the product info online and read "Apply next coat in 2-4 hours. Light traffic after 24 hours."

Today the workers put on the first coat of finish. Now nobody can get to their bedrooms. This doesn't really matter to anybody but DD. DD is my quirky kid. (I might even say DD is my difficult kid --tho she's 22 and a college honor student.) DD's bedroom is essential to her emotional survival.

Based on what I read online, DD, DsemiD and the cat have gone to DsemiD's house, and they expect to return home Tuesday afternoon.

But what if the website actually meant to say, "Apply next coat in 24 hours." And there are two more coats after today. That means DD can't get to her room (and clean clothes) until Thursday afternoon.

Anybody want to make the phone call to tell this to DD for me?

P.S. I'm so proud of myself, I've made a drawbridge to the bathroom.
DH, DS and I will all be sleeping in the livingroom. I got dibs on the couch.

By Debbie on Monday, January 7, 2008 - 11:45 pm:

Oh no!! We had our wood floors refinished a few years ago. We stayed at a hotel for 3 days. We used a commercial finish, and the smell was TERRIBLE. There was no way we could stay there. Also, the wood floors were throughout most of our downstairs, so we wouldn't have been able to walk anywhere.

By Dawnk777 on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 01:10 am:

Yikes. Sounds like a mess!

By Colette on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 07:07 am:

We also stayed at a hotel when we had ours done. Can't your dd come home and get whatever she needs from her room before they put the next coat down?

By Mlee on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - 06:30 pm:

It's okay.
DD came home had a meltdown last evening about other things. The aniexty and emotion have been building in her for a week or so, then watching TV at her friend's was enough to push her into one of her meltdowns. We don't watch TV at our house partly because it has always been too much for DD ever since she was a toddler. Mercifully, for once I seemed to say the right things, and she calmed down pretty quickly. Then I told her about the extra two days without her room, and since she was in her calm phase, she accepted it with a cheerful shrug.

I don't know what it is about DD. A couple years ago I read about Asperger's (a mild form of autism) and thought I had found a name for her different-ness. The psychiatrist she started seeing last summer who specializes in such issues doesn't think that's it.

Oh, I've got to go. More later. Mlee

By Bobbie~moderatr on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 - 08:44 am:

Hope they get your floors done quickly and that your dd handles all the drama that will go along with it well.

I have a dear friend that has a grandson she is raising, I am all but certain he has Asperger's he meets all the symptoms but his doctor says no it is just ADHD. Whatever.... How do these people that see these kids for 15 minutes max, with a child that is on best behavior know anything about what their true symptoms are?? It took 12 years of regular visits to my DH's Psyc to get a true dx for him and he is an adult. He had been dxed with several other things before I finally researched a mess load of mental health issues, I found what I thought it was and the dr confirmed it. His dx just didn't fit what I was seeing at home and he would go to the office and say he was sad but fine.. It makes me so mad to hear about the things kids go through because they are treated for behavior issues and thrown into the ADHD category with in minutes of the first visit. There true symptoms and issues are not properly treated and their behaviors continue and everyone gets frustraighted and discouraged. Anyway, off of my soap box...

Big hugs to your DD... and yourself.. LOL

By Mlee on Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 12:43 am:

Oh brother, Bobbie! DD went to her psyc today. Did she tell him anything about the upset of two days ago (about an issue that has recurred over years)? No way! The had a "nice talk" about how she is trying to get outside more. (DD volunteered this info to me.) She says she might talk about the unhappy things next time. (Or not.) One of her complaints the other night was that this doctor doesn't seem to understand her. Wonder why. . .

Any way, the floor work is done. It looks great! Tomorrow night we'll all be in our own rooms!