Scott, My personal opinion is that if you would just get cracking on it, and stop thinking about it, you could have already gotten the floor stripped in the areas where it was coming up, and could have pretty much prepped for the rust repairs as well. Do what you need to do, or do what you want to do. Quicker you figure it out, the sooner you will get started, and the sooner you will be done.
Less thinking, more doing. I hate holes myself. If I am not going to do a proper job, I will do something that won't be hard to undo later.
When I was a kid, we would plate a rust hole, pop rivets and caulk. Put a dolly on the rivets, pound the back side flat, seam seal and spray bomb. Don't laugh, they can turn out nicely.
OTOH, I broke out the welder yesterday and fixed the front pipe on my wife's muffler with new steel and a couple of reinforcing struts. Not stock but stout. Cut back the tail pipe while I was at it, because it looked like it was dragging on the entrance to the driveway, and straining the joint where it failed. Wasn't planning on doing that, but now it is done.
Wasn't planning on doing my Mom's kitchen roof over Thanksgiving, but she mentioned it was leaking, (... when I drove 7 hours to drop off a car that I got for her on short notice, when hers died suddenly a few weeks ago). Picked up materials for the roof and started Thanksgiving morning. Dinner wasn't until 6 anyway, and it was absolutely going to rain on Saturday. It's done now. Scoped out a couple of other projects her house will need some time in the near future. No, I wasn't planning on it, but...
Do you see where I am going with this ? Do or not do.
When are we starting ????
