Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Bye-Bye Carpet:)

We set ourselves a goal for January, and that goal was to get the floors done. Well, we reached it! They look fabulous and we don't EVER have to look at that nasty orange/brown/rust-coloured carpet again!

It was such an overwhelming task to look at, but once we got started we realized just how easy it was to install. The hardest part of it was removing the carpet when we still had all of the furniture in here. If we had no furniture then it would have gone so much faster.

Our February goal is going to be installing the baseboards and at least purchasing the tile for the kitchen backsplash. Oh, and I hope to update the gallery because that hasn't been done for a LONG time!

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Floors!

This is Deb posting as Nick since I have forgotten my log in information...regardless...we have floors (well, sort of)!

We had no idea of when we were going to install them and about 2 weeks before Christmas we realized that we had no other time to install them except for the time we took off for New Years. January 1, 2009 we started, and we hope to complete this (at least the main portion of it) today.

On Thursday we didn't do too much except for ripping up some carpet and the underlay. It was disgusting and I never want carpet again! On every piece we ripped up there were stains from liquids (pets, drinks, water) and I can only imagine what kind of bacteria was on that...YUCK! We removed the hallway carpet and underlay and then scraped the glue from the concrete, and since the hallway is a heavy traffic area, there was a lot of glue and shredded underlay!

On Friday we got some help from Nick's step-father and we removed a lot more carpet and put down the new underlay for the laminate. We (they) started the hallway which was the most difficult area because a lot of cuts were needed. Later that night, Nick and I removed the remainder of the carpet and prepared the area for the next day.

So today has been full of cutting laminate and laying the floor. Apart from finishing off the hallway it has been pretty smooth sailing. It looks fantastic and I can't wait to put the furniture back to where it belongs (most likely we'll be doing that tonight).

We will be doing the bedroom in a few weeks but it shouldn't take very long to do.