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The weirdest floor I ever saw went from a 1970s mess to a total showstopper in one weekend
Honestly, this house in Tempe had this wild orange shag carpet glued directly to concrete, and the homeowner wanted luxury vinyl plank over it. We spent Friday just scraping up this nasty, matted mess that smelled like old cigarettes. By Sunday afternoon, we had this cool gray wood-look plank down, and the whole room felt twice as big. Has anyone else had to deal with a carpet that was basically part of the slab?
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the_hayden20d ago
What is it with the 70s and gluing down the ugliest carpets known to man? @felix_lane99, mint colored dust sounds like a nightmare you'd see in a weird dream. My own low point was a basement with rust colored shag that fought back like it was alive, and let's just say my back still hasn't forgiven me. That moment when you finally get the new floor down and the room stops smelling like a ghost's ashtray is pretty hard to beat, though.
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felix_lane9920d ago
My buddy bought this old ranch house and found the same thing, but with green indoor-outdoor carpet. It was like the concrete grew this awful fuzzy skin. They rented a floor scraper and said the dust was this horrible mint color. The new floor looked so clean and quiet after all that chaos.
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jamie_white15d ago
That "clean and quiet" feeling @felix_lane99 mentioned is the real prize. It's like we're all just slowly fixing some past owner's weird, permanent choices. You see it everywhere. Painting over wood paneling, pulling up linoleum to find real hardwood, even just scrubbing decades of grease off kitchen cabinets. The house finally gets to breathe again, and you get a fresh start without that ghostly mint dust in the air.
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