No more pad in our pad

Yep, we took out all the carpet. And it was DISGUSTING. Here's a looksie.

Roll em up, move em out!  This stuff was HEAVY!  Cutting it into smaller chunks with a utility knife was muy smart.

We piled all the carpet up in the garage and hauled it off.  

Time for the next laod! 

Remember, we're doing this renovation for as little mullah as possible, so renting a big construction dumpster when we can easily haul things off ourselves?  No way!

Once the carpet was out, we still had the carpet grabber to remove.  A taps with a small pry bar and a hammer and the wood broke and came up pretty easily.  The nails into the concrete?  No so much.  Pull the nails directly out of the concrete left us with big holes in the slab like this:

We learned our lesson pretty quick.  A couple taps of the nail on either side with a hammer seemed to loosen it from the hole so that once you were able to pop it out, it didn't take so much concrete with it.  See?

Much better.

I did quite a bit of research before pulling out the carpet grabber because at this point we were considering stained/polished concrete floors and I didn't want big old divets or mismatched concrete patches around the corner.  When it came down to it though our only other option would have been grinding down the nails so that they were flush with the concrete and that, my friends, sounded like puke in a jar.  You heard me right.  Plus, we didn't own a grinder...

A few more pics of the process:

Pile of carpet grabber.

Don't let that smile deceive you.  This is so far my least favorite renovation project.