A couple of boards?

Brian was up early to get on with the bedroom floor, I’d called him to stop for some coffee, but he said he would be just ten more minutes. Half an hour later he appeared. “How’s it gone?” I asked, “good”. “I’ll have a look after coffee, did you have to take 2 or 3 boards up?”. “It wasn’t quite that simple”.

You can imagine my astonishment when I saw the size of the hole he’d exposed under the floor boards. Unfortunately once he’d started to expose them he found some rot around the edges, so he wanted to take the opportunity to treat the wood and strengthen the floor. It’s turning out to be more than just a day to do this job.