Flooring Update

As you know, I'm back in Richmond dealing with the aftermath of a washing machine flood. It's amazing how much damage one tub of water from a washing machine can do!

Right now, there are packers in my house. They are packing up all of the stuff in the dining room, game room, and family room. Once the stuff is packed, it will be moved into their storage facility. Then those three laminate wood floors will be taken up. Beginning on Monday, they will be replaced with the same flooring that we just put in the family room in June. My one consolation is that now all three of the floors will match! After the flooring is replaced, the movers will bring back all of our belongings and unpack them. Awesome!!

We had thought that would be all we had done. The carpets in the four bedrooms got wet (mostly in the doorways) but they weren't damaged. The padding in those areas was cut away and the plan was for the flooring people to just replace the parts that were cut away. However, when the flooring guy cut out a piece of the old padding, he said it was so "substandard" that he couldn't even replace it (gotta love the quality materials builders use). He said it would be way too uneven, so he was going to have to replace all the padding in the bedrooms. Since our insurance would be paying for the padding, the labor to remove and re-lay the old carpet, and moving all of our belongings out of the four bedrooms, Robert and I decided that now would be a good time to get new carpet. So that's what we're doing. We're getting nice, new, good quality Stainmaster carpet. I think this will be the first time we've lived in a place with better than builder's grade carpet! I'm very excited, although I won't get to enjoy it for more than a few days before I head back to Italy. That's a bummer.

Some of Robert's family is meeting at our house for Christmas (although we will be in Italy). Would it be wrong of me to tell them they're not allowed in the bedrooms?