Because of furniture moving, I have my brother working with me on a carpet job. We did the living room on hall 6 or 8 months ago. It's an apartment but this is the residence of the owner. They stay here when they're in town and not one of their mansions over in the valley or the one in Arizona. Life Is good, right?
Anyhow, yesterday we got started on the small room it's a one piece drop which may seem like a 2-hour job if a guy is movin. Though the room is only 11 x12 there's a lot of stuff in it, the hardest part was three commercial clothes racks on 3-in wheels. The owner said they would roll out the door opening so I thought this would be a piece of cake rolling these three fully stocked clothes racks down the hallway into the kitchen.
....well, they didn't fit under the door trim.
We drove back to the shop and grab my four Harbor Freight dollies and crossed our fingers. I unbolted the wheels at each end and lowered it onto the dollies. When going through the doorway I had to step down on the dolly to compress the carpet enough but yeah, it barely worked. They were also some dressers, a small TV, and a two-door file cabinet, a bunch of hats and shoes, the mirrored closet doors. Just an awful lot of paraphernalia in that little room. I took some measurements and some pictures so we can put things back relatively close to where they came from. Can you do one, drop bedroom and one day by yourself? I can't.
. The carpets in the room ready to start stretching so it won't take long now but then we have to put all the stuff from the second bedroom into the first bedroom so we can do that one.
Rather then move the stuff from the first bedroom back in to place it would be easier in a shorter distance to slide stuff out of one bedroom into the other temporarily. This bedroom is only 12 by 14' 6", but the bed has a 6 and 1/2 ft tall mirrored oak headboard that's about a foot thick plus two side pieces, making it nearly the width of the room. We've got to disassemble the bed, separate the headboard from the two side pieces and this bedroom is going to have a ton of shoes and other stuff to move. The owner was a prominent lawyer in town he's got more suits and shoes and Steve Harvey
. I can't begin to imagine the size of the closets in his other homes.
Age is definitely getting to me that plus lack of installing has gotten me out of shape more quickly than I would have expected.
A month ago I had two days doing the house restretch. Aside from that, just house measuring for the shop.
I'm expecting, any day now a phone call saying "the house is ready"
It's three bedrooms and a living room. It's a.patterned carpet and it has some stone tile to fit to, all the way across the living room, the width of the master bedroom and all the doorways. I think about 45 ft in all. There's about 16 stairs getting up to the main level of the house from the garage so all the tools, carpet and pad we'll have to go up the stairs also. This job and an lvp job that is also ready are going to be my two last large jobs. I'm sticking to the little restretches when the opportunities arise.
