The ServiceMaster team completed repair work on our walls yesterday, so now it's on to the floor. The contractor reported that the new flooring arrived yesterday, so they're getting ready to remove all the old tile and other detritus and prepare the concrete sub-floor. That job will hopefully be completed by the middle of next week or thereabouts, after which we have all the fun and games of bringing back everything we took out to make space for the repairs, and getting things back into some semblance of order. It's almost as bad as moving house, and neither of us are enjoying the disruption (to put it mildly).
As part of the fun (?), we'll have to remove the shelving in our "pantry", which is a large built-in double-door cupboard affair. The tile floor extends into the pantry, so to replace it, everything inside has to come out, including the built-in wood shelves. We'll replace them with some steel wire shelves (already bought). A friend will visit tomorrow to help box up the pantry, move the boxes out of the way, and break down the shelves. I expect much good-natured abuse in the process (the existing shelves look to have been knocked together out of scrap wood by the previous owners, who definitely did not do a good job of all the little and not-so-little "projects" they left behind for us. Slowly but surely we're tearing them out and replacing them with something more fit for purpose, but it'll take a while to get it all done.
The good news is, I expect to have a little more time for blogging over the next couple of days, until the work ramps up again. Look for more posts today and tomorrow at least.
Peter
5 comments:
Make sure all of your furnishings and clothing are well covered during the floor grinding process. That material is extremely fine and is hard to remove completely.
I hope the work is done with no - small issues.
If you just want the pantry emptied of its contents, you could try Service Hamsters. I hear they are pretty good at taking away food and hiding it all over the place :)
I recommend, if possible, you "seal off" the areas being sanded/ground by taping plastic over the door(s) and using a fan or blower to positively pressurize the spaces where you aren't having the work performed. All the dust can safely go out of your dwelling to be dealt with by Nature.
I sure hope you don't live in a cold climate! Don't forget to shut off any central heating you have so you don't suck it into your furnace...
I'm fortunate that I have an old furnace squirrel-cage blower that is excellent for this, when I paint cars in my garage it's excellent for "paint booth" air control.
Good luck!
>previous owners, who definitely did not do a good job
I'm one of those. I tend to like the home-made, rough-and-ready 'someone lives here' look, as opposed to the 'finish carpentry' work. Flaws and flubs along the way are part of that look.
Your house is built on a concrete slab? I am courious, do you think this contributes to back and/or leg pain???
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