Demolition

It's June now.  We bought our land in February and I'm ready to build a house.  But first, we need to deal with the one we already own.

Before we sell it, we have to fix it...

The first thing to take care of has to be these nasty 23 year old wood floors.  They have been walked on, run on, rolled on, danced on, peed on, and yes, of course I'm talking about the dogs.  We humans walk on them daily but seldom run, never roll and sadly haven't danced in years.  

The air conditioning unit took a leak on the floors in the hallway of the spare bedrooms and the water damage stayed hidden under rugs and a runner for years.  It wasn't bad enough for an insurance claim and we were going to have it replaced anyway.  One day.  

So if we want to sell this house and build a new one, we have much to do.  And this is the day we begin.

In our house right now are two fine gentlemen who are trying to wake the dead in the cemetery 2.5 miles away on Timberlane Road.   They are armed with electric saws, chisels, jackhammers, jet engines and a very large radio broadcasting Classic Rock on an FM station dialed up to the highest setting.  They have to in order to hear Lynyrd Skynyrd over the saws, chisels, jackhammers and jet engines.

Demolition will take at least three days and the new flooring will be installed in two.  

We chose Luxury Vinyl Plank as it promises to hold up extremely well under walkers, runners, rollers, and yes, pee'ers.  Currently we have one 5 pound boy Maltese who likes to mark and sometimes I forget to put his feminine pad lined belly band back on.   Our other 5 pound boy potties in the appropriate place and our girl wouldn't dream of making a mess. 

We've treated all our furniture legs with the appropriate padding and stuffed the leftover ones in our ears to drown out the noise.

So far, it isn't helping...