Friday, January 15, 2016

New Carpet

Bedroom ready for carpet

We hired a local installer.

Installing the carpet pad.


Carpet pad in the bedroom.


Carpet pad and tack strip all installed.

Cutting the carpet on the driveway in 50 degree weather


Ready to seam and stretch


How do you clear the two largest rooms in the house?
Bed and dresser in the bathroom.

Spare bedroom completely full

Other bedroom full too.


Cutting the carpet around the entryway.

This picture does the best of showing the true color.

Bedroom done.

Living room done.





All in and ready to vacuum.
Most of the furniture back in place.

The color is brown, but most of the pictures make it look gray.


Tuesday, January 12, 2016

More New Flooring

Removing old carpet in bedroom

One of the holes in the floor


New underlayment

Patching holes




Removing living room carpet

Lots of sand under the carpet

Mary wrote "Wow" in the sand


Starting the underlayment



Nice gap between the two sides of the house


Another soft spot in the floor 

Most of the underlayment down


Underlayment all done


New entryway flooring

Same as kitchen