We're In......sort of?

Loaded up the truck while Lisa was at work yesterday afternoon. Around 5:00, went to the house to pick up the keys from our realtor only to find that the tenants still had crap laying around. Dressers, trash in the backyard, etc. They ended up coming by and took the dressers. They're making a dump run this afternoon. So then the house is all ours. That is, after the flooring guys get done.

We ripped up the carpet last night and this morning. Removing the carpet is the easy part.....removing the tack strips and padding staples is a bitch and a half. That's the real time consumer. Helpful hint.....use a hammer and a putty knife for the tack strips. It works wonders especially if you're looking to permanently expose the flooring below. But then we exposed a little "hidden condition", a lovely term contractors use to justify extra charges. The flooring under the carpet in the front bedroom settled with the front porch over the last 100 years. There's a bow in the floor over the front wall of the house. So what did the previous owners do to fix it? They nailed plywood down to help level off the floor and then put the carpet down. UGH!!

We stopped at 2:00am last night, slept and then finished around 9:30 this morning. Flooring guys showed up 5 minutes after that and started going to town. But not before talking to us about the options for the front bedroom. Basically, we need to replace the flooring in there in order to get a level floor. Maybe 1/2 the room, maybe the entire room. We'll see when we rip it up. No big surprise to me. We're doing it one way or another to get it done right.

So that's our project for this evening. OH! and we haven't unpacked the truck. That's still sitting in our driveway. Fun, fun, fun.

-Ken