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Two views on same day

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Bamboo House

VtS and I went to eat at our regular Chinese restaurant this afternoon. During and soon after the lunch my views on several subjects changed. It was a very interesting lunch, to say the least. But I think it had nothing to do with the restaurant or the food. It was something more organic.

Wallpaper Removal, Clean Wall, Paint the Wall

July 2, 2014 and July 3, 2014

One of the rooms with wallpaper still in place. It has been more than a decade since the wallpaper was hung. It has started to peel-off.

After more than adjusting with the wallpaper in our kitchen and bathrooms we decided to remove them and replace with the painted walls.

Wallpaper has been removed exposing the sheet rock. Allowed to dry for a day.

The work began this morning and will continue tomorrow and probably the day after. We have hired a trusted company to do the work. We have worked with this company before.

I will post the updates of before and after wallpaper in few days.

The dried sheet rock has been painted with Behr Premium Plus Interior Satin Enamel paint. Morning Breeze color

Steam Clean the house

Stanley Steemer Steam Cleaning

Monday, August 12, 2013

7:30 to 8:30 AM

Early this morning two people from Stanley Steemer came to our house for the prearranged steam cleaning of our carpets. We have worked over the weekend the get all carpeted rooms ready for steam cleaning. We had removed all knickknacks and loose items on the floor. We had removed all possible small items like chairs, file cabinets, rugs, and small cabinets. However, we left standing big chests, wardrobes, beds, and desks.

The personnel came and moved the big furniture away from the walls and put them on some kind of plastic blocks. They then started to run the fans in the rooms. Once everything is set-up, they brought their steam cleaning vacuum hoses and started to clean the rooms. They first cleaned the two small rooms and did the big room the last. Once the back side of the cabinets were cleaned they moved the cabinets back to their original position and cleaned the other areas. Once a room has been cleaned they put the fan to start the drying process. They were done in about an hour.

They recommended  that we don’t walk from the carpeted floor to hardwood floor often due to the possibility of wet feet and slippery feet. They asked us to run the air-conditioner at 70 F and continue to run the fans at full speed. The recommended drying time is 48 hours. However, chairs with plastics feet could be moved into the rooms in 24 hours but wooden furniture should wait for 48 hours. If there is a need we could some plastic blocks similar to those they used to move wooden furniture about 24 hours.