This morning I took a few minutes and yanked up the carpet strip in the closet. Pictures are kinda indistinct, since there’s only so much room in the closet to take a picture.

You can, however, see how careful the builders were in floor prep – removing all the paint and what not before applying the carpet pad glue. That will entail some scraping with the Big Nasty before I lay any flooring. The next step was to remove the carpet strip itself, along with the nails that had been used while the concrete was still green enough to accept them without spalling the slab. Of course, now that it’s fully cured (ten years later) when the nails are pulled out some of them pulled up nice chunks with them, and I will have to use leveling compound in those spots.

Tomorrow morning before the world awakes I will be taking out the old baseboard, and probably starting on scraping the floor.

Chat ya later…

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