So the next thing we did after the living room floor was the stairs.  We actually had no plan to do the stairs, but our dog Logan decided to have an accident on the new living room floors.  An accident so big that it ruined some part of the floor next to the stairs.  We were on the floor trying to fix the floor, and when we were done, it still smelled like dog pee.  We didn’t understand how that could be possible.  So we were touching around and Brandon noticed that Logan had soaked the carpet by putting his hand behind the part of the carpet that was soaked.   When he did this we noticed that behind the carpet the stairs were amazingly, finished.  So we sat there and deliberated for a minute, and figured what the hell, and started tearing up the carpet on the stairs.  And this is how they ended up.

Nice eh?  This was one of our easier projects.  Only took around a day.  We just had to pull up the staples from the carpet and clean up a little.  Next, Erik’s room.

So the first part of the camp that we worked on was the living room floor.  Undoubtedly, the worst part of the house (next to the “closet/bathroom/whatever” room that was off of Erik’s bedroom).  The carpets were urine stained – our dogs kept peeing in the same spot because some other dog had peed there before as well.

This is the floor before.  I had tried everything I could to get it clean.  But alas, nothing worked.  So we started pulling it up.

As you can see, we found another carpet under the gray carpet that was there.  When we pulled it back it was so moldy underneath that we all started to sneeze and feel sick.  You can see the mold here, and this spot was actually one of the “better spots.”

The carpet pad that was under the green carpet had disintegrated.  Mostly it was dust, but in some spots it was still semi whole.  All of it though was stuck down to the floor.  Brandon and I had to scrape every inch of the floor to get the carpet pad off.

We then ended up painting the floor with oil primer to seal in the smells, then latex primer so that we would be able to stick the tiles down, as you can’t stick them onto oil primer.

And here it is done.  We had to pull the tack strips that were around the pellet stove up as they were for carpet.  Brandon put new trim around there though so it looks great now.  Our only problem is that the kitchen floor, and the floor in Erik’s room is higher than this floor.  We are trying to work around it, though.

This ended up taking us around a weekend to do.  As with every project that we have done something happens that we didn’t expect, and we are tied up fixing it before we can move on.  Nothing is easy with us.  It was fun having our living room in our kitchen for a weekend.  At least this time didn’t require us to relocate Erik upstairs into our bedroom.  That’s always a joy.

Next up will be the stairs.  I should be studying though.  I reallllly should.