>>I'm about to do some renovations - painting some rooms (maybe including ceiling(s)), and also ripping out the existing wall-to-wall carpeting and putting in hardwood flooring. If you're doing both of these jobs, what's the recommended order:
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>>- Paint first, so you don't worry about dripping on the nice new floor, or
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>>- Floor first, so you don't bang up your freshly painted walls while installing the flooring, or get sawdust on them?
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>First question is why are YOU doing the work? Painting, as I have pointed out to my wife, is "woman's work", and so is brick laying, pouring concrete, laying floor tile, etc. I could never get her to do roofing, but she has done all the aforementioned, and is actually pretty good at it. <g>
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>You might need this to support your argument.
>Proverbs 14:1
>The wise woman builds her house,but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.

Actually, I find it kind of therapeutic. The work I do all day, mainly as an electron pusher is ephemeral; I like to do something physical with my hands, resulting in something tangible I can look at 10 years from now and say, "I built that". I built a deck and fence behind my place in '03 - concreted in the fence posts, dug & poured deck piers, the whole nine yards - grunt work, sure, but satisfying to me, anyways. Getting too old to do that kind of stuff professionally, though - and pushing electrons pays better < g >

I'd ask about renting your wife to help out, but you might take that the wrong way - and I know you have guns < g >