Tell your agent. She is the one to discuss it with her parents.
Absolutely…this owner should know about the carpet “history”.
Well, it was easy. I said “the neighbor wants you to know XYZ about the carpet in the master bedroom. Im not sure if it is true or not, but if you want carpet out, now is the time”.
Its going out
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Woohoo…ALL of the carpet should come out…all of it! I mean really…grandpa could have had “accidents” in any room!
And now IS the time to remove it all.
I’ll be curious how the padding and floor beneath that carpet look! Might need a bleach bath.
I second thumper. At least some good scrubbing. We scheduled the tear out on a separate day so I could clean the subfloors before the carpet installers got in. Plus, as an added benefit, squeaks in the subfloor can be fixed.
Even if the carpet were in great condition, if it were a home I was purchasing, I would pull the carpet. I like to sit on the floor, especially when playing with the dogs and small guests! When we have a large group over, and are watching tv, someone always ends up on the floor with pillows and a blanket. In my own home, I don’t want to be on the floor when the carpet hasn’t been cleaned in a while; I had it cleaned yearly, and sometimes twice a year. If I don’t want to been on the floor, imagine someone that doesn’t have pets in their home! I just think of new carpet as part of the cleaning process.
Can’t link to it, but Summer Sanders (of the Olympic swimming fame) tweeted a photo of her her hotel room with a large red stain on the carpet “Should I be worried?”
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@coralbrook- something to consider about Toto toilets. I have one that I’m very happy with but it was making a tiny, barely discernible noise last month. Turns out we needed a new flapper (after about 2 years). Took the model number and recommended flapper model off the inside of the tank lid. Went online to Toto’s site. Nope, they don’t match.
Called, and tried to order the right one. Their website is wonky, so I couldn’t. Toto lady recommended I order from a different site, or Amazon. Thank goodness I went to Amazon! The recommended replacement had a dismal # of stars and it turns out that Toto used to have flappers made by a company called Korky, but don’t anymore. The newer flappers tend to warp in storage and don’t seal very well. You can heat them in water to seal, but they may revert to the memory of that warped shape.
I ordered the Korky 2021BP G-max flapper for Toto toilet repairs. So much better than having an extra $200 on my water bill! Anyone with a Toto should know this.
Geez…just what I’m going to do in my rare spare time. Sit around and try to heat up some seal replacement thingie for the toilet. Not ever going to happen!
I’ll take some pics of master bedroom carpet removal. I wasn’t at project the morning they removed family room carpet.
We are down to 2 bedrooms with carpet. I called the Dad and reminded him he might want to have those rooms cleaned before Thursday because they have to move out of their sold house (they rented back for 2 weeks) and they are under the illusion that all of their stuff can be crammed into the 2 small bedrooms until all the work is completed. I’m staying out of the whole moving debacle
I discovered that manufacturers are not very helpful with locating replacement parts or offering advice as to how an issue can be fixed. Moen, I am talking about you. Amazon and Fixya and other sites are much better! Also, if anyone needs a Toto advice, call or email Terry Love. He is a Toto guru. You can find his site by googling him.
Ohhhh… I think CB might appreciate this:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/home-inspector-horror-stories/ss-AApnhre
Old Sparky - lol!!!
Ohh boy… I’ll be looking out for the electrocuted mouse in my next project:)
I think you already topped that with your mummified rats! :))
I love the picture of the door with a gash cut out to fit around the toilet. I mean – in what universe?!!
Is there any chance it’s going to continue to be hot? Living in two rooms…with NO AC…and OLD carpeting…ewwww…could be an issue. I mean really…how much would,it cost to recaroet two smaller bedrooms.
They are being penny wise and pound foolish on this one. When everything else is spanking new…that old carpet is going to look even worse.
They have a separate painting and wallpaper removal team working in the house. On Thursday the guy showed up with big 5 gal buckets of paint. They have instructed the guy just to paint the whole house white…everything. OK, but then I look and it’s really Cottage White which has yellowish dingy undertones. He proceeded to just paint everything in the bedrooms. We are talking ceilings, window trim, baseboards, closet doors and entry doors.
What the hey?? It’s an entire room looking dingy with no contrast. So I quickly went to store and grabbed a ton of samples. I painted out some of the trim in nice clean crisp white and put up some neutral wall samples.
On Friday we had a meeting and I carefully explained that the entry and living area had a lot of visible trim and wouldn’t it be nice to have the trim ‘pop’ just a bit?? In the end they actually chose the darker contrast color for walls and agreed that trim in house should be crisp white , not dingy looking color. So, I was able to stop the mass spraying and created a color sheet for the painter. He’s not going to waste any of his paint because he can use the Cottage White semi gloss to go to town in the bathrooms. I gave up on trying to come up with lovely shades for the bathrooms
Right now there is plastic over carpet in the two bedrooms. Cannot wait until the green carpet is revealed with the yellowish walls
My bet…that one color for all plan was the cheapest way to go…great that you convinced them to do something else.
Please tell me that the DR light fixture is headed to recycling!
Yellowish walls and green carpet are going to look soooo depressing! Yikes. Great job preventing the painting disaster elsewhere.
There is a house for sale in our area that has an updated kitchen and MB/bath, but the two bedrooms look straight from the early eighties. It had been sitting on the market for a while until it finally went pending… houses with uniformity throughout sell fast, either a complete update or no updates at all.