I am going to try to journal about going from rags to riches with my floors!!! We have 6 kids and 4 dogs and carpet and linoleum just can hold up to that beating, trust me!!! Well NO more shampooing carpets, we are done with that! Out with the old and in with the new!!!
DAY ONE - Friday
STEP ONE:
Emptying the house. This is the hard part, moving out of a house you live in. We moved the dining room first, then the kitchen, then most of the living room. We also did the master bathroom and closets, then the hallway and 2nd bathroom. We left the 3 bedrooms since that was going to require KID HELP! Ugh!
STEP TWO:
We thought we would start in a room that had BOTH carpet and linoleum, just to see what our floors look like under both. Oh, it was horrible!!! The painters oversprayed everything!!! I don't know how we'll ever get all this paint off the concrete!!! Help!!! Under the linoleum is a layer of glue or mud or half the thickness of the sheet of linoleum. (what is this crap?) Once you pull up all the flooring (carpet, pad, and linoleum) then we had carpet tack strips to remove. We used a small pry bar and a hammer. Note: when the nails come out of the concrete, they pull up some of the concrete, too, so you get little holes or gouges in the concrete. Now we have to figure out how to fix those, too! You also have to pull up the quarterround, over all the linoleum BEFORE you try to pull up the linoleum. We used a razor knife on the caulk lines to separate the quarter round from the baseboards.
STEP THREE:
Soak the floor in a soapy (dishwater) solution. Then use scrapers to peel up the paint and junk under linoleum. (putty knives, joint knives for sheetrocking, etc) The soapy water soaks into the surface of the concrete and makes it MUCH easier to scrape up. Get down to as smooth and clean a surface as you can. Use a wet vac to suck up the water. (way easier than a mop) We got down to a smooth surface, but it still had paint everywhere. You can scrape the paint, but it takes LOTS of elbow grease, so we decided there must be an easier way.
1. hire help
2. find out what kind of "chemicals" can help you accomplish the job. (beware of any type of acid cleaners, they will ruin the cement for staining)
Went to bed a little discouraged and exhausted!
T
DAY ONE - Friday
STEP ONE:
Emptying the house. This is the hard part, moving out of a house you live in. We moved the dining room first, then the kitchen, then most of the living room. We also did the master bathroom and closets, then the hallway and 2nd bathroom. We left the 3 bedrooms since that was going to require KID HELP! Ugh!
STEP TWO:
We thought we would start in a room that had BOTH carpet and linoleum, just to see what our floors look like under both. Oh, it was horrible!!! The painters oversprayed everything!!! I don't know how we'll ever get all this paint off the concrete!!! Help!!! Under the linoleum is a layer of glue or mud or half the thickness of the sheet of linoleum. (what is this crap?) Once you pull up all the flooring (carpet, pad, and linoleum) then we had carpet tack strips to remove. We used a small pry bar and a hammer. Note: when the nails come out of the concrete, they pull up some of the concrete, too, so you get little holes or gouges in the concrete. Now we have to figure out how to fix those, too! You also have to pull up the quarterround, over all the linoleum BEFORE you try to pull up the linoleum. We used a razor knife on the caulk lines to separate the quarter round from the baseboards.
STEP THREE:
Soak the floor in a soapy (dishwater) solution. Then use scrapers to peel up the paint and junk under linoleum. (putty knives, joint knives for sheetrocking, etc) The soapy water soaks into the surface of the concrete and makes it MUCH easier to scrape up. Get down to as smooth and clean a surface as you can. Use a wet vac to suck up the water. (way easier than a mop) We got down to a smooth surface, but it still had paint everywhere. You can scrape the paint, but it takes LOTS of elbow grease, so we decided there must be an easier way.
1. hire help
2. find out what kind of "chemicals" can help you accomplish the job. (beware of any type of acid cleaners, they will ruin the cement for staining)
Went to bed a little discouraged and exhausted!
T
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