Paint Stripping Fun

Last week, we were fortunate enough to have a great weekend working on the room.  Friday afternoon and all day Saturday, my Mom came down to help strip paint, and Babcia provided dinner for us on both days.  Mom and I worked on Friday afternoon, then the three of us worked all day on Saturday.  We made a lot of progress, and it was good to see that paint coming off as fast as it was.  I had acquired an additional heat gun, so we could have two strippers working at the same time.  Jenny began to scrub the walls, in anticipation of paint (which will hopefully be soon!).  Jenny also got the front flower bed cleaned-out, since our plan for Sunday was to do some fall yardwork, including planting our new bulbs for the spring and summer. 

We got through a ton of stripping work on those two days.  Sunday, Jenny and I came home from church and got right to work outside.  I raked-out some more of the flower bed, and removed all of the weeds that I could.  Jenny came out, and we got to work planting bulbs.  We got about 3/4 through the bulbs that we had, and it started to rain.  It had been sprinkling a bit, but this was too much, so we stopped and cleaned-up.  We then came inside and decided to work more on the room.  Jenny took the heat gun to some more baseboards and trim, and I took a pry bar and pliers to the quarter-round, carpet tack strips, and carpet pad staples.  I only have one thing to say about the carpet tack strips, and that is that I’d like to find the person who invented them and chain them up in a room, forced to remove tack strips from floors forever.  That punishment would still be too good for them.  Argh.  I got about 1/2 of the quarter-round up, and probably 1/3 of the tack strips (there are tack strips where there isn’t any quarter-round, if that make sense). 

More fun this weekend….

jonathan