We now have possession of the house. We finished the closing process at around 4:00. It went fine and the real estate company even gave us a generous gift card to be used at the mall! New shoes and purse for me! Haha, that was a joke...sort of... We went over there right away to start pulling out the carpet. The carpet covered the living room at the two upstairs bedrooms. It wasn't bad carpet-we just like the wood floor it was covering better. We made an interesting discovery in the bedrooms. There were two layers of carpet! Under the current carpet, there was an older layer of brown and gold shag carpet! Under the shag was the padding, which was pretty gross. It was disintegrating into a dusty material in the high traffic areas, and around the edges of the rooms and in the closet it was resistant to removal. Fortunately, the living room and hallway didn't have the extra layer, so the pad in there was newer and was easy to removed.
Hopefully the leftover residue will come off with sanding. Don't worry, this task wasn't was bad as it looks.
This is the living room floor. I think it looks great! The person in the photo is our friend Jason Webster. He is pulling out staples and nails. What a good friend he is!
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