Carpet.. Carpet... Oh god the carpet! Oh yeah... and a bathroom.

I hate carpet.  I could just leave it at that but I really think you should understand why I hate carpet.  I hate carpet because I have horrible allergies.  Steam heat was a definite "want" when searching for homes.  Forced hot air is awesome... if you want to blow dirt around your house like a weirdo.  That said I was torn between being absolutely disgusted by the carpet we removed from the house and being elated by the fact that I was looking at wood floors.  

It wasn't as quick of a process as we expected though.  In the last blog I showed the process for removing the carpet from the stairs and the living room.  That took us most of a weekend.  The rest of what I'm documenting here took another week from start to finish, finish being getting the rolls of carpet and padding into the garage.  During this time we also made the bathroom usable as we started camping out at the house during the week/weekend.  

The first bedroom reveals some of the original stain color which is a dark red

 The carpet and padding comes up fairly easily.

 Progress starts to be made in the hallway via carpet/padding/tack strip/staple removal.

We set up base camp in the first bedroom.  

The difference in the hallway is drastic.

Looking downstairs. 

It was smooth sailing until we circled back to the last room, the 2nd bedroom, and found an actively leaking radiator.  It was a small leak and has most likely only been leaking since we turned the heat up.   

The floor cleaned up and looking from all possible angles we found no damage beyond staining of the wood  and some small amount of mold on the padding.  We treated the floor with a mold killer/preventative just to be sure though.  The flooring guy took a look at it and gave me some good news which is that the stain should sand right out.  The culprit of the leak was improper radiator installation.  The male flange on the radiator wasn't all the way inside the female flange of the valve housing which allowed condensed water to leak out.  No biggie, just a mistake we need to be sure we don't make in the future.   

 

Came up quickly in the third bedroom.  

 Our monstrous pile of carpet  in the garage.  

 The bathroom received a healthy coat of caulk around the tub and surrounding area as well as the re installation of the shower curtain rod.

 Its not much but it'll hold us over until we can tear it apart and put a proper bathroom in there (think subway tile... lots of subway tile!).

Stay tuned for more!