Abandoning Allergens
I’m not dead.
Though, right this minute, that sounds like a nice alternative.
For more than a year and a half, dreamboat husband Nate & I have been planning to tear up the carpet in our living room.
Whoever had white berber laid did not invision 6 kids ever living here. Or 3 dogs. Especially not one boy with allergies.
So, the oldest 5 are with Nana & Poppy eating out every meal and getting spoiled in lots of other ways.
Nate’s 31 million jobs have him booked solid while the kids are gone. Gray’s getting over a cold and sleeping a lot.
So, what do I do? Tear up the carpet. And that weird underlayment that’s not really a pad.
Now, it’s me against the tackstrips and the staples.
I’ve already got a good cut on my leg from a staple, but am about half-way around the room!
When this is all done, I’ll be breathing tons easier… And hopefully Brady will, too.
July 24th, 2010 at 4:50 am
We tore up carpet before we moved into the Kirklin home. It is not easy work, nor is it what you expect. I too expected a “pad”, not the ‘powder’ we found. Not something I ever want to do again. Good luck with it.
July 24th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Ours was a heavy gray woven fiber type thing that rolled up easy, but I couldn’t cut it. Rolling it up and lugging it outside was not easy… But it’s gone now!