Deja Vu

This weekends project was to take up the carpet in the dining room. After spending time walking on the floor, I think we expected the same situation as we had in the living room. The first picture is the room before the job was started. We have been using the back wall of this room as a storage area for our paint and supplies.




This picture was taken after everything was cleared out of the kitchen. The room is now ready, and I can begin rolling up the carpet and padding. We are going to keep the carpet from this area for possible future use in one of the bedrooms. The padding will be thrown out and replaced if necessary.

As expected, the floor of the kitchen was patched in the same fashion as the living room floor. It appears at some point there was some repair work done on the septic system, and large sections of the floor were cut to provide access. Once the repair was complete, the holes were patched with plywood and then what appears to be luan scraps, covered with luan sheets.

The larger strips of luan were pulled up to expose the smaller scrap pieces placed here and there. In one spot there were four layers of luan. These smaller pieces were removed to leave one layer of flooring.

The floor that remains is poorly patched and in need major repair. The next step will be to remove the cabinets and then take up and replace the floor. Luckily this job is not very expensive to complete, but it will require a lot of work, removing the old floor.