Carpet Removal
As I mentioned the other day, renovations are happening in my house. In order to save on some of the costs, wife and I are doing some of the tear out. The carpet came out on the weekend and so the remainder of that was taken care of tonight. She took care of scraping the glued on under pad off the floor and I removed all the bits of carpet and staples from the stairs. The whole job took about 2 1/2 hours and now my whole right arm pretty damn sore. I’m assuming that by tomorrow it’ll hurt a lot more. Not looking forward to that.
As much as the job sucked, it went super smooth with this handy new tool I picked up on the weekend. We just happen to be in Canadian Tire (Canadian Hardware store) and I saw this heavy duty staple remover for about $6. I knew I needed to remove carpet staples so I thought… why the heck not and bought it. Well, I’m so glad I did get it because the thing is just awesome. I can’t imagine how long it would have taken me if I was using a flat head screwdriver or a pair of pliers to get all the staples out. So my advice to you if you happen to be pulling out carpet and you need to get all the staples out, get one of these tools. Trust me… you’ll love it.
Play Asia
June 19th, 2012 at 3:48 am
Removing carpet eh? Going full Brazilian or are you gonna leave a little patch, maybe a lightning bolt? Giggity!
Lol sorry, when I read the header I instantly thought of a scene in Family Guy where Quagmire helps Lois rip up all of the carpet in her house.
Not too long ago, my parents replaced the carpet in their living room with hard floors, and guess who they called to help. Yeah, my arms still kinda hurt.