Welcome to silencia.net, a personal blog and professional portfolio website. I am Ang, a 26 yr old web designer and kickboxer from northern Minnesota. I have a full-time job, a car, a house, 3 cats, and a moderate phobia of taxidermy. I enjoy stand-up comedy, movies, books, technology, genetic anomalies, history, Dave Attell, Dexter, money, and pizza. What more do you need to know?!
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An open letter, maybe you can help.
My house is all hardwood floors, except the kitchen and bathroom (linoleum) and the 2nd bedroom, which is my office. My office has carpet. Now, when I moved in, there was carpet in the living room and going up the stairs, which I ripped out immediately after painting (leaving it down for the painting, effectively making the nasty-ass carpet a drop cloth). But the office carpet may be a problem.
The office carpet is a very short type, and I don’t think there is even a pad under it. There’s no real cushion at all to it. And it appears that every inch of it is glued down. Like, I can’t even pull up a corner of it. It is a hideous green (as all the carpet was, but the stuff I did pull up had a pad and was stapled down).
My cats have a tendency to go to the first soft surface they can find when it’s time to charf up some hairballs or cat food. Which means I have given up on having an area rug in the living room, and now I desperately want this office carpet GONE. Cleaning up cat vomit on a carpet is a royal bitch, especially when you’re doing it multiple times a week. And let’s not forget how gross all carpet smells in the hot and humid summer time. No matter how often you clean it. And especially if it’s really old.
My open letter is this: If you have ever in your life had to remove carpeting that was glued down hardcore, how best did you go about removing it? What worked wonders, what didn’t work at all? What didn’t work that “everyone” claimed would? What did work that “everyone” said would not at all? I need ideas, people. If my best option is ripping it up bit by bit with needle-nose pliers and a chisel, so be it, but if there is a more effective way, I want to know about it.
What kind of sick bastard puts carpet on nice hardwood floors anyway?!
Making improvements.
I put new shelves up in my bathroom today. I had the two lower shelves above the toilet since I moved in, but as you can see by my bathtub, there was nowhere to put my shampoo and stuff. I used to keep all my showering things in a little plastic basket in the bottom of the tub, which means they got soaked and my bar of soap never lasted long. That is the drawback of the claw foot bathtub surrounded by a curtain. No shelving at all. So I finally decided I would put more of the same shelves that I had over the toilet above the shower as well. And I put one more above the toilet, for more storage. What you see in the photo is really ALL of my bathroom. There is clearly no room at all. I went for clear shower curtains and clear shelves in an attempt to keep an open feel to the room.
I am quite glad I live alone. For no one had to witness me precariously perched with my feet on either side of the top of the tub, wielding a drill and installing my shelves. I also stood on the rim of the toilet to put the top shelf over that. There’s nowhere to put a ladder in that space!
I do love power tools. Drills, electric screwdrivers, etc. Makes me feel bad ass. Yesterday I had put up curtains in my bedroom. I think my window frame is adamantium or something. Because I broke one drill bit, got another drill bit stuck in the wall (even my dad had a hell of a time getting that back out), one screw snapped in half… I couldn’t get anything to go through! I finally had to abandon the long screws that came with the curtain rods and use shorter ones. Which may be inadvisable. But the long screws were not happening.
These were all little household projects I had been planning for awhile. I still need to finish painting my kitchen (which I had started last summer…) and put new baseboards in the living room. One thing at a time, I suppose.