Day 19

Today was a busy day. My first job of the day was hauling the carpet out to the dumpster from the 'Mars' room. Then I started to go up to 3rd floor, but on my way up I decided to rip the carpet off of the stairs and take that out to the dumpster as well. After seeing all of the yuck and dirt that was under that carpet on the stairs I question why anyone would ever want carpet in their house. Wow that was filthy. :P After I got the carpet out, I needed to pull the nails out of the floor on the stairs before anyone got hurt. So I swept up the yuck and pulled out the nails. Then I finally made it up to get the crowbars and hammer off of 3rd floor.

Here are the 3rd floor stairs before I took off the carpet. As you can see it was loose and falling off in several places. It was not very safe. I was worried about someone tripping on it.

Here are the 3rd floor stairs free of carpet.


Jonathan had been busy hauling the rubble out of the basement. It had all fallen to the floor in the basement when he was ripping out the rotten floor in the 1st floor bathroom. He got a lot of yuck taken out to the dumpster. It is just about full again. :)

The basement with only our tools and stuff. (At least in this corner.)

I moved on to working in the 'Mars' room (one of the bedrooms on 2nd floor). I wanted to pry up the old tile and the chipboard underneath. After watching Dad do this on 3rd floor last weekend, I thought it would be something I could do between times. I wanted to start in one of the rooms that wasn't leaking. I knew before I started that my Dad was much stronger then me, but until I started using Thor's hammer to pry the crowbar between the layers of floor, I didn't imagine how weak I really was. I started out needing to use Thor's hammer as a two-handed weapon. It was hard to work in the doorway and I am clearly right-handed where Dad can use either hand.

Lisa making slow progress on the floor.

I have now decided that the leaking roof actually made the whole process easier as the tile and chipboard have been wet and are kind of warped. They seemed to not be as stuck to the floor as it was in this room. But once I got started it was okay. I was breaking it into much smaller pieces then Dad had been. But it was at least coming up.

Then I went to check on how Jonathan was doing in the basement. We starting working together to try and fill the dumpster and empty out part (at least) of the basement. We hauled a lot of the junk out of the basement. We took the old washing machine and the water heater out to the dumpster. And cleared out many of the boxes in the second room. We took all of the ductwork pieces up to the craigslist room and put them in a couple of boxes. Now we just need to get some of the junky furniture out and sweep and clean up a bit more and it will be nearly cleared out and ready for Jonathan to set up his workshop and all of his tools. YAY! That will be a happy day.


In one of the boxes in the basement I found TREASURE. There were five Nintendo games hiding in the box. The kids, especially Zeb, were excited about my treasure.


Here is a picture of Jonathan emptying his can into the nearly full dumpster. (20 more yards of trash.)

Next Jonathan started working on the floor joists. And I went back up to 2nd floor to pull up some more floor.


With Jonathan's help, we got one large strip of floor pulled off, and most of it hauled down to the dumpster. This will be my project again tomorrow. I can't wait. Boy am I going to be strong after I get all of this floor pried up. ;) No more Thor's Hammer... it will be Lisa's Hammer.