Tack Strips I

[naomikritzer]

Since we were re-arranging the study (home office, really, but my parents called theirs a study and I've never gotten out of the habit of calling it that) anyway (to accomodate a second computer), Ed suggested we tear out the carpet.

I have now assembled:

* Eye protection
* Small pry bar
* Large pry bar
* Pliers
* Large metal pot lined with plastic (for the tack strips)
* Large garbage bag (for carpet and liner)

I am current on tetanus shots.

Here we go...

Comments

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Heh! We just made our very own home office this weekend.

But there was no tetanus involved. It was more like "go to newly-opened nearby Ikea, buy home office, put in car, follow incredibly picturesque instructions."

Though we have not yet tackled the truly terrifying part ("exhume my desk from neighboring room, clearing away vast cubic feet of clutter in the process such that the desk can be moved, oh god it burrrrrrns us").

[naomikritzer]

The tetanus shots are because if you rip out carpet, you will gouge yourself on a tack strip nail sooner or later. Or a staple. Or both. It's inevitable.

Ed will have nothing to do with Ikea. It opened here last year, a stone's throw from his office. He went one day and got lost and almost couldn't find his way out again.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Ours has big arrows painted on the floor which keep you going in the same direction ;). Certainly I have no idea how the path I took corresponded to the posted floor plan.

[allochthon.livejournal.com]

You are an inspiration. =)

My second floor is losing it's carpet just as soon as the spring weather allows me to open the window enough to let the carpet go shooting out. =)

[naomikritzer]

Yay!