The Carpet Disaster

I made a huge mistake.  When we purchased the house, the carpets were a mess.  With steam cleaner in hand, I had this crazy idea that all of the stains would come right out.  There were black, red, green, and blue spots scattered sporadically throughout the home.  Not to mention the usually dirt and traffic foot patterns.  So though all of the painting, I kept the floor covered, thinking I could save the carpet, and also thousands of dollars.

When the painting was all done, and all of the plastic remove, the cleaning began.  Tried everything.  Every spot removal treatment, every home remedy, every suggestion I could find online.  Went to every home store and asked everyone.  No luck.  Wasted literally days working on trying to save it, not to mention the waste of time covering the carpet for painting.

Finally, after lots of elbow grease, sore hands and knees, a ton of soap and cleaners, sweat, and even tears, I gave up.  The carpet had seen its day and now it was time for it to go.

Sadly, I wondered down to the carpet store to order up new carpet for the entire house as there was not a room in the place that did not have some sort of stain somewhere.  The carpet store could not get anything installed for 8 weeks.  I had made a horrible mistake.  Never in my wildest dreams did I realize that carpet now days would take that long to install and I can’t wait that long.

 

So I went to the big box store.  It cost me about five hundred dollars more, but they could get it installed in a week.  I saved a couple of hundred bucks by pulling out the old carpet myself.  They would send a measuring person the next day.

So that night I start ripping carpet.  It was cut into manageable pieces, rolling it up, and hauling it to the garage with all of the other items to go to the dump.  To save money, the tack strips were left so they could be reused.

While I was rolling up the carpet, I kept finding things under it.  This was especially true in the stair way.  Things like ink pens and toys.  It looked like the kids who used to live here where hiding pens and toys under the carpet.  It explains all of the different color spots throughout the house.

A gentleman measured the house for the new carpet.  He put everything into the computer and sent it off to the installers.

The installers where great and did a wonderful Job.  First thing they did was throw out the computer instructions.  The computer did not take into account traffic patterns.  Instead, they installed all of the carpet based on traffic patterns so as not to have seams in the wrong places, and they ended up using less carpet.

The house is starting to come together.