At least it started out well
Jan. 3rd, 2005 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulroI finally started to remove the vile beige shag-pile carpet from my computer room this afternoon. It's only taken four years. There's not room to move all the stuff out, so I bought a Stanley knife to approach it in stages.
It started off very nicely - I worked out a way to take up the underlay with the carpet, thus avoiding 90% of the mess carpet removal usually generates. Unfortunately, said underlay ran out & was replaced by a variety that fights back when attacked with either knife or scissors.
At that point I had to give up anyway as the bin outside was full, and I'm not wrestling this stuff into bags.
It felt like lots of work, but less than 1/4 of the floor is visible, and I started with the parts where nothing heavy has to be moved out of the way. It's too early to tell whether the boards are salvageable - they are horrendously mangled anywhere they've ever been taken up (and put back by butchers) but other parts are quite intact. I have an awful feeling we're going to have to get more laminate flooring though.
After I gave up I settled down to watch the DVD of the week, Bright Young Things, about which I have remarkably little to say. It's simultaneously amusing and annoying, and most of the characters get more or less what they deserve.
It started off very nicely - I worked out a way to take up the underlay with the carpet, thus avoiding 90% of the mess carpet removal usually generates. Unfortunately, said underlay ran out & was replaced by a variety that fights back when attacked with either knife or scissors.
At that point I had to give up anyway as the bin outside was full, and I'm not wrestling this stuff into bags.
It felt like lots of work, but less than 1/4 of the floor is visible, and I started with the parts where nothing heavy has to be moved out of the way. It's too early to tell whether the boards are salvageable - they are horrendously mangled anywhere they've ever been taken up (and put back by butchers) but other parts are quite intact. I have an awful feeling we're going to have to get more laminate flooring though.
After I gave up I settled down to watch the DVD of the week, Bright Young Things, about which I have remarkably little to say. It's simultaneously amusing and annoying, and most of the characters get more or less what they deserve.
