Gaaaahhh. What were they thinking?

[bunrab]

So, I had purchased a few boxes of stick-on tiles, as a temporary cover for the spare bedroom/pet room floor (the real spare bedroom, like for guests, is in the basement) because I wanted a solid floor surface I could easily clean, not the taupe wall-to-wall carpeting. And today, I started pulling up the carpeting. And you know what? I don't need the tile! (I'll have other uses for it, believe me, so it wasn't a waste of money.) Do you know why I don't need the tile? Because there's perfectly good hardwood flooring under there! Yes, hardwood floor, in decent condition, ready to be swept up and have a couple of plastic desk-chair strips thrown on it directly under the cages, so that any accidental litter box misses don't seep through the wood. Taupe cheap carpeting, over perfectly good hardwood. Gaaaah!!!

I got about 2/3 of that room done, enough so that I can bring up Gizmo's and Chippy-n-Chili's cages tomorrow. Then remove the rest of that room. Knowing that's hardwood, though, I don't know if I'm going to be able to stop. I suspect that foot by foot, I will keep ripping up carpet up the hallway to the living room, and then, who knows?

Comments

[momily.livejournal.com]

Wow! what a great find..! I'd love to yank up some of the carpet in my house, although there's nothing really wrong with it, but I'm afraid that what's under there is cheapo plywood.

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

That was what I had been expecting, too.

(And although I had purchased stick-on tile to go on the expected plywood, my own views about furnishings are such that I would have considered even bare plywood a better choice than taupe wall-to-wall carpeting.)