Friday
18th November came around, and my work duties were absent until
evening. I therefore took to it to rip the carpet out. I managed to
hack it to strips with the Stanley knife and bagged about half. The
above shot shows the hacked strips and below the horrific amount
of dust that accumulates UNDERNEATH a foam-backed carpet that is not
moved for 35 years.
UGH.....
MY
parents appear to have lain the carpet on top of a roll of brown
paper when buying it for me in my teens. Below the paper is the
original linoleum that I can recall from my childhood. I have yet to
bag up the other half of the carpet, vacuum up the dust, and begin
to clean the room. This will hopefully be done soon, as it is not as
noisy as knife-ripping the carpet was and does not need to be done
mornings only.
The
phone/modem/power bar and bird/hedgehog food tubs will remain, as
will the tall slim white closet - everything else will leave the room
whilst I clean/polyfill/paint it. Except of course for items such as
the chair - which I need to stand on to polyfill/paint/clean, and
painting rags, etc.
As
you can see by the above picture, the carpet has now all been bagged,
the sack of dusty brown paper has already been removed since taking
the picture, as I trotted down my allotment plot and popped it into
the compost bin after lunch!
My
next task might be to de-cobweb the walls, or just wash the walls and
ceiling, or maybe tackle the closet - ugh!
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