This morning, Joey met with the contractor who is planning to refinish the wood floors which encompass our entire house, except for the two bathrooms which are, or will soon be, ceramic tile.
I can handle wood floors and ceramic tile. Yes, yes, I can.
We had a budget for the wood floor refinishing, and Joey and I were both pleased that the quote came in substantially under what we had budgeted (YAAAAY) despite the fact that the whole shabang needs to be re-stained a darker color because of some major nail/rust/tanic acid staining from when the wood floors were covered with carpet. These lovely stains are nearly black and run along all the baseboards where they had nailed the carpet junk into the floor. Or something.
The point is, the nail stains look bad and that’s why we have to get the floors refinished in the first place.
When the contractor was looking at the floors this morning, he noticed several dark spots in the middle of the great room floor, rather by the entrance to the second bathroom and the baby’s room. We’d noticed those spots before too, and we assumed it was a traffic pattern. Even though that wasn’t a super high-traffic area, it just seemed to make sense.
“Ah, pet stains,” the contractor said.
And in contractor speak, “pet stains” is tactful language for SOME STUPID DOG PEED ON THE CARPET YEARS AGO. Lots of times. Lots and lots of times. Because the aforementioned fluid soaked through the carpet pad, marinated there for awhile, and subsequently stained the wood floor a nice, dark shade.
“I’ll be able to get most of that out,” said the contractor. ”But not all of it. You probably won’t notice it so much.”
Um, heck yes I will now that I know what it is.
Joey was relating this to me as I stood in his office, 50% covered in sanding dust and paint residue from my failed attempt at working more on the kitchen cabinets today.
And when he told me those large, discolored spots in the middle of the floor were old dog pee? I gasped. Like, super loud. And I bellowed, “NO. No, no, no, no, no.”
See, that’s why I hate carpet. First of all, dogs shouldn’t be having accidents in the house and second of all, these people must have thought they “cleaned it up” (I hope) bit in reality the germs were all still down in that evil carpet pad, destroying whatever was underneath it and radiating their germiness back up onto the carpet. And these stains are really large, so it’s not like this was a one-time occurrence. I know the people before us had a cat, not a dog, so it has been there for over 11 years.
I’ll feel much better about our little girl crawling around on ancient dog pee stains once I know they have been sanded within an inch of its life. I’ll probably mop that area daily for at least a week, too.
So yeah, we have “pet stains” on our floor. They’ll be there until September 1oth or 11th or 13th…I really forget which date Joey told me they were coming. But it’s going to take them two days to get it done, and when it’s done, it will be beautiful. I am sure of it.
I’ma take a Before and After picture of the “pet stains” just to see how much better it will look.
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