Jan 7, 2007

It Feels Good

to be productive again.



Brian and I took on the project of removing our brown stained carpet from (most of) the main floor on Saturday. We needed to get a better idea of what was underneath to know what kind of patchwork the floor sanders would need to do. As the man predicted, there are two ducts covered with plywood which were moved to wall vents.



The largest pain in my rear was that the padding was stuck to the floor in so many spots. We're not sure if someone steam cleaned it at one point, spilled 500 drinks, or it was just stuck from the amount of traffic, but it took a lot of scraping to get the majority of it off.



We're left with this after only about 5 hours of work. We're very pleased with the look of the wood. The original work was done nicely. There are no visible nails to cover like we saw upstairs.



Soon we'll work on the office. That room has linoleum to remove as well as carpet. From what I can tell, the linoleum is so aged that it no longer adheres to the wood. I'm hoping that it will actually be easier than the other rooms. For this weekend we're calling it quits. My wrist is almost too sore to knit and we're blowing green dust from our nostrils. It was fun to do some more work on the house again, though. We're excited to see the floors all refinished. It won't be long now!

6 comments:

Patty Ann said...

Good heavens where are you sitting? hahaha. The floors look awfully good, they're going to be beautiful finished.
ALMOST too sore to knit, that's serious.

Anonymous said...

They were finished, then covered in area rugs at some point, then carpeted with the cheapest padding ev-VER and the scummiest carpet.

The wood is really worn down in the heavy traffic areas, but anywhere there was furniture is in great shape.

I'm a little more nervous about the linoleum in the office. It came up pretty easy by the door, but I'm not expecting it to come up like that everywhere else.

patty said...

Gorgeous! To say the least. You should have given your dad and I a holla! We would have helped as we didn't do too much this past weekend. You will be so happy with the finished wood. Reminds me of my very early years....

Patty Ann said...

I guess you'll have to google how to remove linoleum easily.
Worn wood is pretty much the "in" look in a lot of restaurants and things. It has character.

Angie said...

I wished ours looked more like "worn" wood and not so much like green mold.
I'm not sure when we're ripping up the office, likely later this month and doing the refinishing in late February. We thought about having it done while we're on spring break, but decided we should be in the area so we can come back to look at the stain.

Anonymous said...

That wood is *so* lovely! I can't wait to see it all finished. It is going to be fantastic!