Let the work begin

July 15, 2005

We started our first house project tonight. A couple friends came over and we ripped out the carpet in our living room and dining room. The carpet was newly laid 3 months ago. It was nice carpet but we really like hardwood so we decided to take it off. It came off really well. But the carpet layers used thousands of nails to attach the carpet to the baseboard??? So we spent a lot of time removing those. In addition the baseboard heaters were mounted on top of brown shag carpeting??? So, we took the heaters off to get the shag off. What were these people thinking? The job is mostly done, there is a lot of staples still in the floor and baseboards.

The middle area of both rooms at one time was covered with rug and the finish in that area is different. So, now our goal is to sand and refinish the whole floor. Then of course we want to rip off the lino (because there is hardwood under that as well) in the kitchen and refinish that floor at the same time. So this is how it starts - the endless cycle of home renos.....