I donned filthy clothes and respirator yet again last night, and entered the toxic waist land, soon to be my daughters nursery. I sliced up the carpeting, rolled it, tied it, and stuffed it into contractor bags, along with the padding. I had to crawl around on the floor for quite a while trying to remove the hundreds of staples they had used to tack down the padding. Also, I had to remove that lovely tack strip around the edges of the room. Man is that stuff nasty to handle. Kind of like trying to pick up a porcupine.
I then tried shop vacking up the room, but after a long time, I realized it just wasn't worth it. The exhaust from the vac was blowing around the dust and although I was sucking up some, I was putting more in the air. So, I sealed up the room, closing windows and closing the door. Hopefully, the dust will settle out in the quiet air, and I will go in tonight and wet mop floor, walls, and ceiling. I think that will work better to remove all the dirt and dust. The hard wood floor is in pretty bad shape, and I am now considering laying a new hard wood floor over the old. It is pretty flat, not like the floor I found in my living room a couple of years ago. The room is quite rectangular, with virtually no cut-outs. It is rather small, a bit over 8 by 11. I don't think I will require an underlayment. I am trying to convince myself that I can do the whole thing, start to finish, in three days. Now I just have to convince Teresa of the same. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [email protected] Tel: (412) 268-9081
