Finally... the moment we've been waiting for. To be able to sand the hardwood floors. Pulling up the carpet wasn't so bad, nor was the padding.. What was a terrible nightmare was taking out the million and one staples from the floors. I think the original carpet installers wanted to make sure their carpet would never be able to be pulled up because each room had staples around the walls, which was expected, but there were 2-5 rows of staples in each room.. It has taken us weeks to remove every single staple.
Upon removing the padding it was discovered that the padding had melted to the hardwoods, and was worst near the fireplaces.
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| This is the guck that was under the padding. Ewwwwwwwwww |
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| Living room, after scraping guck and two passes with the drum sander 36 grit... |
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| Living room... same as above different angle. |
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| Downstairs west-side bedroom (luckily didn't have guck..) This is after one pass with the drum sander 36 grit. |
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| Stephen removing wood from one of the rooms... =) |
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11:00 PM... 2 hours scraping, sanding with 36 grit, then scraping some-more... Finally the original color of the hardwoods are revealed.. =)
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The final product... The floors came out gorgeous.
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