Staple Karma
Hey, staples are hardware.
Old room. Old carpets. Old padding. Yuckkkkyyyyyyyyy.
I have multiple electric stable guns. I have overused them for years. I love them.
M is ripping up the padding, and saying: WTF? More staples!?!?!? They used way too many staples!!!
And I shake my head. No such thing. Just now it is my turn to rip them out for hours, rather than KATHUNK them in.
The flooring at this point is ANCIENT linoleum, hard cracky. Underneath that is crap wood. It will not polish up.
So I need to remove (or pound down) all the current staples, then scrub out the current floor (years of carpet glue and spill accumulation), and then figure out what to do with the border anchor carpet tack strips. Leave 'em in for the next pass of wall to wall?
I want open non-carpeted floor at the wall, so (at the moment of writing this), there will be no future wall-to-wall. There will be oriental and runners and all kinds of floor covering, just not at the wall cracks.
I will be sealing the cracks where I can (silicon, etc), but when done, I expect further settling and always want access to be able to deal with any issues, rather than have to rip out carpet then (and delay and ignore it).
So, do I leave the tack borders in for anything else? Something tells me I'm in for a long ripout. These are long wooden strips filled with tacks that are nailed into the floor, done very well. I want to leave them if there is an off chance they will be useful, but not if I'm going to impale my feet on them.
Not often I walk along the edge of the wall. Ehh. Double gorilla tape cover until I decide what to do, safe enough.
Oh, and I haven't had any nicotine in 2 days, so I'm on the tail end of MUST WORK OFF INSANE AGGRESSIVE ENERGY BEFORE I FUCKING KILL SOMEONE mode.
There are also walls to be removed. Bwahahahahahahahaaha.
Time to setup the music and go to work.
