The front (guest) bedroom in the house was pretty much a disaster. An HVAC unit above had leaked and caused a giant hole in the ceiling:

The leaking also pretty much destroyed the particle board underlayment on the floor:

So, we had to get all that out of there, in addition to some in the hallway… the foreclosure peeps reportedly would let their dogs relieve themselves wherever in the house. Lovely. Well, we could tell there was some doggie essence in the hallway so we took that floor out also. Luckily it seemed the dogs couldn’t get to many of the rooms upstairs.. phew.

What does “removing underlayment” mean??? Demolition. Oak was very excited at first and gave the brute force (i.e. “Oak SMASH”):

but both of us did get pretty tired of it after awhile, especially when we approached the doggy toilet area… let me tell you, that is not a scent to bottle. My responsibility was mostly to bag up the yucky old pieces and not stab myself with any wayward nails. No Carries were harmed in this project, luckily. After the smashing process we put some primer over the plywood underneath to seal off any yum-yums that were left. Sometime in the next couple weeks the contractor for our renovation loan is going to come and put in the new underlayment. Woohoo!

Posted by Carrie on Monday, December 21, 2009
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