the carpet in the hallway practically took itself out, compared to anything else in the house, thus far…
no matter what i can’t seem to get a good picture of it, due to the hall being completely void of light. the odd thing is i put a shop light in the hall, and it didn’t get any brighter. the only obvious possible reason for this is a black hole. a mighty small one, but enough to suck the light away.

luckily the black hole in the hall didn’t do more… because the one in the bedroom sucked my ego away. more linoleum, this time very, very well attached to the wood flooring.

this is after 1 hour of scraping, followed by 10 minutes of 35grit on the RO sander.

at this rate i figure the room would be done by this time next year. i did a quick experiment with boiling water, and it looks like heat helps a bit… so i’m off to home depot for a heat gun, then trader joe’s for dinner. after crying, of course.

but on the plus side…. here’s roughly 700lbs of old carpet and padding, removed!

another hour and a half of back breaking labor:

that’s about 1/4 of the front bedroom scraped.