See that over there? Yeah, over on the left. That's the built-in bench in the basement. The one we hate.
And do you see that stuff underneath it? The fuzzy blue stuff? That would be very old, very wet blue shag carpet and padding.
Not the carpet that we knew was down there. The lighter blue berber carpet that went up to the bench. No, this is a fresh hell that the bench was built over the top of. Apparently, at some time in the distant past, the carpet was replaced and instead of removing all of it, they just cut it off in front of the bench and laid the new carpet right up to it. Which means that the build-rite they laid as subfloor was also an afterthought from the original design.
So the contractor is coming tomorrow afternoon to view it and write up an estimate to have a carpenter come and remove the bench so they can remove the wet carpet and padding underneath before we end up with mold.
A pain in the butt and another call to my boss to beg her to work at home, yes. But, we hated that damn bench and were going to tear it out and pay the square footage to have the carpet go all the way up to the wall. Now it's covered.
Plus, I'm hoping we know what the deal is with the walls tomorrow as well.
1 comment:
Hmm, very interesting! Not so sure I'd be installing a permanent bench over the top of carpeting.
Yay for you in finding that extra money. Should be hard to rip out. Good luck!
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