The hardwood floors in the master bedroom are interesting...A nice change from the blue carpet. What you can't really see in this picture are the nasty tar balls that latched onto the wood floor when we removed the carpet pad. It looked like the black foam particles from the multi-colored carpet pad were a poorer grade (vs. the accompanying 1970's green & brown foam particles) and disintegrated, creating nasty tar balls that stuck to the floor.
The lovely part about the nastiness is that we hired a cleaning company to come out just before we moved in. They took care of most of the tar balls. As I mentioned earlier, with our close-date being postponed, we had to hire out a lot of the work that we had hoped to do ourselves. This really turned out to be a blessing considering we still don't have air conditioning on the first floor. We found ourselves saying several times during the last 10 days, "this is the best $(insert amount) I've spent all year." It was so worth it to have the ceilings, texture, and cleaning done before we moved in! |
