It's Spring Cleaning time around here...okay well Spring Cleaning and the start of Spring and Summer projects. The weather is finally into the 40's during the day, so you can open up the house to air in the afternoon, so kicking up stuff in the house isn't as much of an issue as if you'd do it in the winter. So, I've been working on getting cleaning and other projects done that desperately need to be tackled and this week is no different. So, let's get into what is going on around here for projects.
Goals for the Week of 4/12
1. Get chandelier glass in the kitchen cleaned well and hung back up. Dust the light fixture pieces as well. DONE!
This thing was FILTHY from all the dust and residual grease that had accumulated over the winter from cooking and stuff. It looks so much better now!
Note: Please ignore the state of the walls in the picture above. Alvah's been rough the last few years to himself and other things. Step two in his room redo is we are going to put up paneling to hopefully help alleviate this situation and protect him and his room a bit better.
2. Biggest project of this week is to get my son's floor done.
We started carpeting his floor a few years ago, but my husband never finished it because life got in the way (and Alvah burned out on people being in his room and didn't want anything else messed with). I am tired of tripping over carpet square boxes and looking at an unfinished room, so it is finally getting done one way or the other this week. Nice part about having a wife with near clinical OCD is when I finally start a project, it gets done. So far I got the part of the floor where the carpet will be going down scrubbed well with a mixture of Borax and soapy water (Borax will kill anything weird that might be on the floor and help get grease off the wood that might stop the carpet glue from adhering right). I then filled in a spot on the floor that my son chopped up pretty good by rocking a chair back and forth over the wood that wasn't meant to move that way a few years ago. I bought floor leveler that was made specifically for this task and was approved for the materials I'm using, so no one comment worried I did the wrong thing here *laugh*.
Then I scraped up a few carpet tiles that the son had just fouled up too badly and would just look nasty even after cleaning them (by the way scraping up carpet REALLY sucks...just wanted to share) and then poured boiling water over the carpet tiles I felt could be saved. I sucked up the water as soon as it started cooling off a bit with the carpet cleaner. After doing that a few times I poured vinegar on the spots with the worst stains, sucked that up, and then went over it one more time with water. It actually worked really well and stopped me from having to go over the carpet squares with a bunch of different chemicals (that Alvah is really sensitive too right now...his eczema is just awful this Break Up, even for him). The shot above is in the middle of the process. Now that the carpet has dried it lightened up a bunch and looks pretty good!
After a ridiculous amount of prep work I'm finally going to start laying the carpet squares today. Here's hoping it goes well *fingers crossed*. I've never laid carpet before, but I've watched a bunch of people put down flooring on YouTube and things, so I'm hoping I'll do a decent job.
Wish me luck on this one.
3. The last task on my list for this week (trying to make things doable), is to get out this weekend and start to clean up some of the MANY shingles and roof materials that are currently over the whole of my back yard, so we'll be better able to mow when green grass starts to make an appearance. Between the shingles and just general wind debris, this is not going to be a small job. I'm hoping we can start to source shingles for the garage roof this weekend as well (I got and bagged up a sample to match color). We very well might have to order the shingles as regular 3 tab shingles are sold out everywhere around here (go figure), but I want to get this rolling before too much time has passed.
And there you go folks. My goals for this week. Hope your goals for the week are going well.
Enjoy!
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