Now the real work begins

Well, the carpet in our upstairs hallway is gone. Of course, it was not as easy as I hoped.

The carpet was severely glued to the beautiful hardwood floors beneath, just as it had been in KoKo's room. Mercifully, it was only nailed down in our bedroom. However, since every inch of the floor now has glue and remnants of the bottom of the carpet and pieces of fabric, the real work begins.

Now we saturate it in glue removed and - well - scrape the hell out of it.

That should take a couple of days.

Please, if you have beautiful hard wood floors - never lay carpet over them! Carpet comes and goes - remember, shag carpet? Or ugly patterns? But hard wood is always beautiful. Leave it that way.

Slowly but surely the carpet comes up.



Of course, there are little surprises like this bugger (which looks like something the church used to torture non-believers during the Inquisition) which was used to hold down the last remnant of the carpet right before the landing for the stairs (unfortunately, I had to remove about 25 of these things when I pulled up the carpet on the stairs).



The first section is pulled up. Next, get rid of the glue!