Closet has new baseboards, and now it’s time to move furniture around.

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Old baseboard out, new flooring in, ready for new baseboard. Pretty productive for a Sunday evening, eh?

You can click on the picture to embiggify it.

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Midweek fellowship was a blast. Had a great time worshiping God and walking through Acts 4.

The live band was pretty good, too, if I do say so myself! 😉

This morning I did some half-hearted scraping of the floor in the closet. It’s going to be slow going, working about a half hour at a time, especially this part – I have to spray water on a small area, let it soak, then scrape the area (due to the dried paint and drywall compound that the original builders just built right over). Then, after it dries, either sweep or scrape it again to get the dried gunk off the floor.

I did manage to get the baseboards cut away – when painters come in to paint, they sometimes use a bead of caulk along the top edge of the baseboard to smooth the transition to the baseboard and hide the irregularities of the wallboard. There was a lot of caulk holding these baseboards on. Tomorrow is a lumber cutting day and Wanda’s memorial service, Saturday I will be at Babystop bright and early, Sunday is fellowship and related activities followed by another round of eBay stuff, so the next time I”ll be working on the closet looks like Monday morning.

Anyone know of a way to squeeze more hours into the day? I need to get more accomplished while my eyes are open.

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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.

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