Carpet. And Pets.
August 31st, 2010 . by CaryMost of our home has been tiled ever since the pets outnumbered the humans. Many of the original pets are still around, making them fairly old in dog (and cat) years. One sign of old age is forgetting things. (see my post from … uhm, yesterday, I think …)
Another sign is incontinence.
The closet in our master bedroom is (was) one of the last two “rooms” in the house that still had the original carpeting that was installed when the house was built. The other is the office/train room/storage area, but that’s not going to last – I’ve already had to cut out sections, and now it’s a case of unloading the room and removing the carpet. Last Friday, someone relieved themselves in the closet, and Saturday TMBWitW spent a lot of time removing everything form the closet so it could A) air out and 2) have the carpet removed. I tore up the small area on Sunday morning. Next step (now that you can actually go in there without holding your breath) is to clean the floor real well, removing the carpet tack strips, and then buying the new flooring.
We’re thinking engineered wood, like in the bedrooms. I’ll get some pictures and keep you updated.
Chat ya later…
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Train rooms should really have hard floors anyway, so that you can find those darn coupler springs and other sproingy bits that fly away when you are trying to put things together.
Funny thing about “train” rooms (or at least mine), they accumulate things so badly that sometimes you can’t get in to run the trains!
Oh, Larry, if you only knew how close to the truth you are! Actually, the “Train Room” part of the designation went from primary to third place in the space of a few years, and where I once had the startings of a layout there are storage shelves filled with boxes … and the computer desk in the corner! Yes, the train room will have hardwood or tile before I get to working on the latest iteration of the railroad.
Truth, I noze it.
My “train room” has so much other junk in it that the only trains one may see are the ones on the shelf, on display.
Hopefully that will change soon…
Well, I am making headway on the closet, so that kind of points to me that I can make headway on most anything around here again. With the long period of un- and under-employment, a lot of projects got put on hold or just didn’t get started. That is slowly changing.