Goodbye Carpet, Hello Hardwood!!

0:01 all right everybody today's the day that we're finally tearing out all this Green carpet let's get to it this is thick and very old then I saw a trick so you cut the end here so you have like a flap and then in here you cut a notch you feed this through here and carry it like that not bad okay now I know you really want to see the hardwood but I'm going to use some delayed gratification we're going to cut the rest of the Green carpet and then we'll get up the padding let's get back to it

0:57 wow it is way better than I thought it was going to be it's orange but like it looks cool it's not terrible they look pretty in pretty good condition so far well I wonder if they got it and they put carbon down like two years later because it became it's like us taking this out of the second we moved in they put on purpose yeah foreign so as you probably saw there it was very difficult getting the carpet padding up on the areas where the person that lived here before walked around the bed you can see what it was basically compacted into the wood floor underneath so I went and bought a floor scraper and hopefully it will make light work of all this let's get to it also it's pretty crazy just taking out the carpeting it's so echoey in here all of a sudden it's completely changed the Acoustics of the room

1:46 we were a bit worried that floor scraper might damage the hardwood floors but we found just a little bit of pressure that carpet padding came right out after removing the padding in all three bedrooms we were happily surprised with the minimal amount of damage left behind we also were wondering now would it be worth it to refinish all these floors I know it'll be a big difference when we sand and restain it but it's like is it worth it is the juice worth a squeeze but it is really over it totally is worth the squeeze well are we going to be able to get it to the White Oak color we like though we'll get it to that yeah because I'll be sad if it's just like a tip it's not it's going to be night and day don't worry you promise you promise I promise is that on camera it's on camera so I just got off of work and now I'm going to work with grand to tear out the hallway and we're going to probably cut it down the middle because it's going to be a little bit difficult to fully roll this as it's going to scrape the wall and then we're also pretty

2:31 interested to see what the stairs look like we're not sure if those are also Oak and if they're done nicely or if they're in good condition so let's find out and get started let's get to it no clapping I hate the clap clap so put this like over your head like here yeah where can I put my phone yeah how does that feel and then look here it smells so bad these attach attaches like this okay like a bra you probably have trouble with a good experience with that all right we're recording with our mask on hopefully you can hear what we're seeing I literally can't find that's it's this is increasing your VO2 max

3:42 all right so we did a lot of carpet removal yesterday we got a ton of rolls and padding here we pretty much did the whole house except for this one section here in the living room and we have a guy coming later today to pick all this up and load it to the dump so we're going to go ahead and move all of these rolls outside clean up the rest of the tools and ladders here and then we can finally try out this last section of carpet let's get to it [Music] thank you [Music] foreign

4:31 [Music] we were a bit worried what all our new neighbors would think with this mountain of carpet outside but luckily it was picked up and hauled away relatively quickly with the carpet gone it was time for my first glance at those living room hardwood floors it's huge it looks so good all right now that we have all of the carpet out of the living areas hallway and all three bedrooms we can go ahead and start taking out all the tack strips around the perimeter of the room usually they're just held in with some pretty long nails so I'll use a crowbar to pry them off and just got to be careful because they are really sharp so anyway let's get started Bianca and I were very careful when using the pry bars to not further damage the wood floor and then once we were

5:16 done with the room we would go around the edges and vacuum up all the Dust [Music] that's fine I was like I made that look a lot easier than it is oh it's because it was in a crack yeah see those three were in a crack I'm just so good at it [Music] so obviously we've gotten all the carpet taken out and Grant's been working on taking out the tack strips but something interesting we found in this room that Grant noticed is there's about an inch or so salt just all along the perimeter and we've never seen that before we don't think it's building related so we did a quick Google search and we found that it's supposed to keep the bad spirits out and also cleanse your house so we thought that was interesting have you guys seen that before [Music]

6:05 through all these Renovations we've realized just how important it is to have a good quality shop vac and this isn't sponsored but we do love our DeWalt shop vac and it'll be linked in the description below [Music] it's now finally time to take out this railing we're probably going to be putting in some sort of railing in its place but we probably aren't going to keep this one it's just held in with a few screws so let's get started they're just because someone's going to yell at us for taking us out but I liked it I liked it better before that's what someone's gonna say we bought this house and there wasn't hardwood under here like this would suck putting all down yeah I don't think we could afford to do all Hardware no we would have done lvp all right I'm off the wall okay cool it's actually not that heavy can we stop now yeah let's uh

6:52 I only want a rail in there because people will have their backs there I'm not opposed to putting the railing back in its place but I know I just wonder where we're gonna I like the railing I think it does look cool because then I can put a Garland on it during Christmas time wow it makes the face space feel so big give it a test step oh wow Hazard there with all the carpet gone we still had a few hundred or maybe thousand Staples left so Grant got on his hands and knees got his pliers out and pulled each and everyone out with all the Staples finally out and all those last bits of Green carpet we were able to take a step back and really admire the staircase again we felt lucky that there wasn't much damage here because we didn't want to open that can of worms so now that we have every single staple out of the wood floor the

7:37 next step is to take out the shoe molding and that's the lower portion of the baseboard running around the whole perimeter of the room the reason that we're doing this is that when we refinish the floors we have to sand everything and in order to get all the way up against the edge it's easiest if you just take out that portion of the baseboard and then reinstall it once the floors are fully stained and polied now because there's a lot of paint and caulking already there I'm gonna go ahead and cut the seam with a utility knife before prying it off with a crowbar we could potentially reuse all this shoe molding because everything's already cut and perfectly sized and save a lot of money just on material costs however after closer inspection it's in pretty bad shape and we might end up wasting more time trying to fix it up and sand it and repaint it so also I'm probably going to break a piece or two when I go ahead and pull it out but anyway that's enough rambling let's get

8:23 to work [Music] foreign during this process we made sure not to damage the upper baseboard because we are going to be keeping that we're just going to be replacing the shoe molding Luckily everything went according to plan and it pains me to have to throw Alice wood I'm one to always keep my wood but this was just too far gone and it just had to go in the trash and

9:09 lastly we had one more piece of carpet to take out we almost had forgotten it and luckily there was also an oak board behind this too so it really finished out nicely the Green carpet is out and the orange floors are here but not for long we definitely want to refinish these to change the color as well as to clean up the floor a bit as you guys saw there's some damage here and there we think we want to go lighter but let us know what you guys think down in the comments also as you guys have seen we've been doing kind of a different style of content let us know what you like or don't like or if you want to see kind of more behind the scenes of things yeah do you guys like the more the more personal stuff you like the more Hands-On step-by-step stuff let us know because we want to make good videos for that you guys want to watch so we'd really appreciate some feedback and if you enjoyed this one please smash that like button as it really helps out the channel and also subscribe if you want to see us continue

9:55 to renovate this house and as always thanks for watching and happy building see you next time don't you're asking for it