This Thanksgiving break I spent the better part of the holiday re-installing my new laminate flooring. You can read about the first time I did it, one month ago, here.
If you’re too lazy to click that link, (Ha! What do I mean “if”?) here’s the short version:
Mrs. ACW and I got tired of the pervasive odor of cat urine that permeated the house as a result of the previous owner’s cat having vacated it’s bladder onto the carpet of the living room in all four corners. One corner in particular was so foul that urine had dried and accumulated into a fine particulate. We pulled out the carpet, replaced some of the plywood, laid down new plywood, put in some melamine sheeting for noise reduction and insulation, laid down foam padding, and then put in the laminate floor.
A few days later the melamine bubbled under the foam and laminate and started pushing up creases in the laminate flooring. In some places it was particularly bad, and when you walked on those places it was like stepping on a spring-loaded floor. Sweet magical Moses did it irritate me.
So, we pulled up the floor, and were immediately smacked in the face by some of the graffiti we had left behind from the last installation. These pictures show the graffiti after we modified it for our current situation.
You might need to click on those to make them readable.
Anyway, we spent all fucking day on the goddamned floor, and by the end of the day I was getting pretty pissed off. Though, I felt slightly better every time I remembered this would be permanently under the flooring:
Shit. I’m getting irritated just writing about this.
I hope the fucking floor is finally fucking flat… fucking melamine. Stupid Mokie (he likes melamine).
ha, i thought i was phunny when i hid a natty boh can in our dining room wall before patching it. pwned again.
Have you ever considered therapy?
oh i so didn’t need to see this. Guess what our Christmas vacation (!) project is?
Sweet magical Moses! How do you come up with such hysterical lines? Comedic genius, I say.
Oh God. and our husband and I are going to attempt to install Tiling in our bathroom……
god help us.
Kinda makes you miss the pervasive odor of cat urine, doesn’t it?
You better be careful, you dont want to anger the house.
Maybe you should try this: http://greenfield.fortunecity.com/dwellers/564/ceremony...
Be sure to post pics when you’re done:)
What a coincidence, I always like to hide a drifter or two under any insulation that I’m installing.
Dude, don’t you know that permanent ink causes melamine to bubble?
Ugh…sorry to hear you had to put up with that stench. Why do people do that??? Must be nice not have a working nose. My girl kitty, Diva, decided to pee in the corner of the basement that had remant carpeting when she had urinary tract infection and I didn’t realize she had done it until maybe a month later b/c it was an infrequently visited spot in the basement. So I threw the carpeting out and cleaned the entire basement floor. I can’t freaking believe there was so much dried cat pee in your place. Ugh.