My Feet Are Tired!

[Veronica]

Since I'm giving my knee the day off, I helped Thom lay wood flooring in our bedroom. Get your minds out of the gutter. My job was to pick the piece of flooring to go in each spot. It was rough. Seriously, my feet are killing me! I had to stand barefoot for four hours on a cement slab. And we're not done! It's going to look so awesome though when it is complete. I can't wait to get rid of all the carpet. I had no idea how DISGUSTING carpet is, until he started pulling it up. Nasty, nasty stuff!

V.

[crazycanuck]

Oh cool..renovations!

Will you post the photos on tandem hearts??

Meanwhile, get mr tom to give you a foot massage!!!

C

[Veronica]

Oh cool..renovations!

Will you post the photos on tandem hearts??


C

I hadn't thought about taking any photos of the floor. Maybe... after I get rid of all the cobwebs!

V.

[crazycanuck]

Cobwebs on the floor

C

[Veronica]

No on the walls behind where the furniture was.

V.

[maillotpois]

Few things are as physically tiring as home improvement work. I painted every wall in our house before we moved in (including stripping wallpaper in one bathroom). DH did wood trim. We worked on it after work almost every day for a month. Parts of my body I didn't know had nerves ached. (We had others do the floor re-finishing and re-carpeting - we reached our limit.)

I would imagine the concrete floor is also COLD!!

[Veronica]

You can't imagine the amount of pelage I found under the dressers! Ar least it wasn't vair!

V.

[SouthernBelle]

I will never have wallpaper in a house again. Hanging it is evil. Stripping it is evil.

I want wood floors. The house I grew up in had wood floors. But rich people had wall-to-wall carpet. So when I was a kid I wanted a 2 story house with carpeting. I've got one now.

[froglegs]

I was supposed to be giving my poor shoulder some rest, but instead we poured a slab in the backyard and I spent the day wielding a shovel and various concrete-smoothing implements. However, I made my husband pick up the 90lb bags of concrete.

[Veronica]

Ahhh... gunite, fun stuff! I haven't pored a slab, but I've done my share of post holes.

V.

[RoadRaven]

I can't wait to get rid of all the carpet. I had no idea how DISGUSTING carpet is, until he started pulling it up. Nasty, nasty stuff! V.

me too... I am slowly getting rid of the old bits in this house... I swore the last time my toddlers had a vomiting bug I would rip out every bit of carpet in the house - but by the time they got the next one, they were old enough to wake up before and make it to the bathroom in time...

It is very nasty - dirty, dusty, yuck. And we have nice rimu floorboards... but my limiting factor is that I work fulltime and prioritise bikes over floors...

Pleased you have time to do this - I look forward to my turn too

[Trek420]

I had no idea how DISGUSTING carpet is, until he started pulling it up. Nasty, nasty stuff!

V.

Welcome to my life I will never have carpet again....but right now, this.

[Tuckervill]

Here I sit on my 110 year old oak tongue-in-groove floors, but they're covered by decades of linoleum, school tile, 3/4" plywood and, in one case, "indoor-outdoor" carpet squares circa 1971. :P

We took the horrible old carpet out before we moved in--and were so shocked to find what was underneath. But these floors are going to return to their glory, I hope this coming year.

Karen

[Veronica]

You're so lucky! We're putting in glue down engineered flooring. We grew up in Maine with real wood floors and as much as we tried to ignore the click sound of floating floors... we just couldn't.

It's a royal pain in the arse to put in a glued down floor on a slab. The surface has to be level and so "lucky" Thom has had to grind away parts of the slab or fill depressions.

But the parts that are done, I am just thrilled with.

V.

[short cut sally]

V, you will come to love the hardwood floors. I grew up with real wood floors, had carpet in our trailer when we were first married, the floors were cold, and when we built our house years ago, we put carpet in the bedrooms. We removed the carpet last year to complete the house with hardwood. OH my, now I know why my allergies were bothersome. It was so disgusting! Enjoy all your hard work once your feet and body recoup.