I hope all of you working folks are looking forward to the upcoming weekend. I am looking forward to spending time with the Hubbie and also the rest of my family, including that sister that lives in Athens! The Indie South Fair is taking place in Athens, GA this weekend, and my talented sister and dad will be selling some of their wares. All those available should come by. I will of course be supporting them with my presence, and I also hope to knock out some more work at The House (I believe our undertaking is big enough that it now warrants capital letters).
As an update, we are continuing to work on preparations for painting (you may read about how that is progressing, here) and hardwood floor installation. -- I hope to complete the rest of the sheet rock work this weekend!
One task that is complete is the removal of the trim. ALL of the baseboards and door jams had to be taken down because with the layer of particle board gone, and the disparate heights of hardwood and carpet, the trim would have been at the wrong level once things were all said and done.We also decided to go ahead and take it up before floor installation so that the floor installers could easily get the hardwood in place and would have one less thing to work around.
This pile is one of two cased openings. In addition there are, ten door jams, three bedrooms, the living room, dinning room and hall worth of baseboards to be removed. In order to keep this from being a 1000 piece puzzle at the end, I have bundled each rooms trim and marked it with an appropriately clever title.
(by 'appropriately clever', I meant clear and predictable)
For any readers out there who may be faced with such a chore, stay tuned. For those who will never face this task or are already familiar with it, you may skip to the cute picture and anecdote at the end.
For trim removal all we needed was a pry bar, a hammer and a pair of blue snips (a the more technical name -- pliers, but I don't use this). If we had been removing painted trim, we also would have needed a box knife to cut the caulk. Alas, we caught a break on that one. Below is an action shot…
Next you just use the snips to pull the nails through the trim in the same direction they were shot into the trim -- this keeps you from making further marks on the face of the trim. Below is a picture of me pulling nails out the wrong way, notice the craters I have made on the face of the trim at the base of the nail (I had already completed a whole room's worth before I realized this was the wrong way).
So, don't do it the pictured way. You also want to remember to only use the pry bar where the nails are at in the trim. This means that you will be using the stud behind the sheetrock for leverage, instead of just sheetrock, and you will avoid putting huge holes in your sheetrock as you pry the trim loose.
In conclusion… isn't Macy cute. She likes to climb up behind me and stand in the chair I am sitting in so she can be close and look out the window. This was taken with the laptop camera while I wrote this.
Have a great weekend!!!
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