First of all, I’d like to thank the members of the Des Moines Rehabbers Club who kindly offered me advice this morning.  I sent a rather panicked email to the mailing list this morning and got some really excellent responses.  It helps so much to have someone to turn to in a crisis like this! 
The flooring company […]

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We’ve hired a professional flooring company to install tile in our bathroom.  We worked with them for several weeks, stopped in at the store twice, and had several phone discussions in setting all this up.  He told us we’d need to have our clawfoot tub disconnected so they could move it out of the room, which […]

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We’re getting started on the major projects in the kitchen and that includes flooring. Here’s how the floor looked when we first moved in:

Brandon started tearing up the old flooring and found some of this old linoleum:

Ironically, we had just picked out this new style of linoleum tile when we found the old stuff:

So […]

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I ripped out the carpet in the bathroom this week. It smelled like pee. Here’s Zoot sitting on the carpet one last time:

Under the carpet was some nasty padding:

And under that was some wierd old flooring that looks like those marble colored rubber balls that come with a jacks set.

Anyway, that smelled like mildew. I […]

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 Hopefully this will be the last of it. But don’t worry! I got to do the fun part today: demolition!
Today’s mission: demolish the old bathroom sink to make room for the new bathroom sink!

Scratch can’t understand why he can’t sleep in the sink anymore.

Tore out some of the carpet to reveal some really… […]

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