I certainly had moments of oh no, what if this house floods in the spring when the river rises?! But then i thought, well at least we will know the reason for it :) and we will deal with that when it comes.
Now this house has a few issues, the biggest being that half of it is sinking. So when you walk on that half you tend to feel like you are going to fall over. However winter is not the time to deal with that, so we will deal with that later.
Where to start with demoing? well that was easy for us, the carpets!!!! We went in as a family and ripped those suckers out in about an hour!! the kids were awesome! Everyone ripping up sections, pulling out the underlay and then using pliers, hammers and screwdrivers to pull up the nail strips!! It was dirty and soooo gross! Especially the carpet in the bathroom! EW!!! My Husband did that one really fast ;)
Here are a few pictures of our family outing:
love how the all worked so quickly!
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I realize that was a lot of pictures, but we were so fired up to get started because I knew we were going to be making drastic changes and I just had to try to capture every moment. It was amazing to discover all the hardwood floors underneath the carpet and it was all in decent condition. :) Hard to believe that someone wanted to cover up hardwood floors!
Working together as a family helped us to all get excited about this new house (kids haven't been super on board because they will be leaving some good friends that live across the road at our old house) and I am so glad that my kids can learn some life skills along the way.
Day one of demo down, many many many more to go :)
Kim
Kim
ONE TIP FOR RENOVATING!
Some jobs require a dust mask! This probably could have been one of them. So I suggest you use a dust mask for removing old gross carpets.
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