Go for it. Jesus said he could tear down the temple and rebuild it in 3 days.
You should be able to lay a floor in the same time...
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Rossi
To: Blind Handyman List
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:59 AM
Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Nursery floor.
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
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