Mystery Screws

The floor was almost finished when I decided to pull up large sections of it and start over. The planks weren't quite straight, the seams were opening up and it was becoming a mess.

I should hire someone to do the floor for me, but I'm not ready to concede defeat. I am going to figure out a way to get the boards straight if it's the last thing I ever do. I'm going to try using a chalk line and perhaps temporarily screwing a few key boards down so that they don't shift as they're hammered in place.

The floor is becoming an obsession. I have no life anymore. All I think about is the floor.

Still on the topic of the floor, a mysterious thing happened. When I put down the previous floor (which went in just fine, thank you very much) I glued all of the thresholds down. When I removed them for this project, one of the thresholds wouldn't budge. Upon investigation, I discovered big screws going through the threshold, the flooring and concrete slab. They were huge screws and they were stripped. With a crow bar I was able to remove some, the rest got pounded into the concrete.

The problem is that I did not screw any part of the floor down, so, who did this and why? Did a burglar break into the house and decide to secure the threshold better?

Later, I remembered that I had the door replaced. The door installers must have done the screwing. The story was more fun when it was still a mystery.