When we looked at the house for the first time, we knew if we bought it one of the first things we would need would be new floors. The whole house (except for the kitchen) is covered in awful carpet.
Our first thought was that we would try to put in bamboo floors as soon as possible, but after lifting up a corner of the carpet we discovered that underneath was what appeared to be brand new oak floors, so for now all we need to do is rip up the carpet and put a coat of finish on. Since we are trying to take things one room at a time, the first room to be carpet free was the bedroom. We started in the closet since we weren’t sure how well the process would go. We pulled from the corner and were happy to find that with the exception of the tack strip around the edge and a few staples around the edge of the wall and edge of each piece of padding, there wasn’t anything else holding the carpet to the floor. After pulling it up, we used a razor blade to cut out the whole piece covering the closet floor and that was it. Good bye carpet, hello beautiful hardwood floors!
Josh set to work getting rid of the tack strip, which after a little practice using the crowbar, a hammer and a piece of cardboard to protect the floor, ended up being a relatively quick task. After cutting the carpet into about 3 foot wide strips and ripping that and the padding up, I went around with pliers and pulled out all the staples. Overall it probably took less than an hour and we now have hardwood floors! We are going to clean them and put a coat of varnish on before we move everything back in. The room is thisclose to being finished and I can’t wait!!
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