Carpet cleaning Day II

This is the s3econd day I have been working on the carpeting in this room. Earlier this summer I threw out the chair mat that had been in place for 4 years.

Ewwwwwwww. Off white bounded by greyish-tan uckyness.

So. There were 2 choices:

Remove the carpet.

Clean the carpet.

Choice #1 is much favored but, while DS3 and I could tear out the existing carpet, we probably would be well-advised to not try laying the laminate floor. Sure, Himself could certainly do it. Uh huh. The problem with that? He never, or rarely, finishes anything. We would almost certainly have a nekkid floor for an undetermined length of time. Or until I got so sick of it that I laid the floor myself* or hired someone to do it.

So I am in process with choice #2. And cleaning and cleaning and cleaning it some more. Right now I am taking a break because I put down more soap-stuff and I'm just waiting the prescribed time before going back over it again and sucking all the stuff up.

It's more likely than not that the sucked up stuff will still be black so I will put down more stuff and keep that up until it is, at worst, grey sucked-up ickys.

I despise carpeting. Really I do. It collects dirt and dust and stains and stinks and all kinds of vile crap that makes my allergies nigh to intolerable. That's why, last year and the year before that, we ripped out the bathroom carpet, hall carpet, living room carpet and all the stuff downstairs. During the process I had to leave the house entirely because the dust and yuck in the air was making me ill. Once all that was gone, replaced by laminate wood and tile, my allergies improved almost overnight.

Once we actually manage to get rid of the floor-gross in here and the bedroom I predict a real improvement in the allergies and sleep quality for both Himself and me.

Now, back to sucking vileness. Ta-ta!


* With help, of course. Most likely DIL and DS2.