Temporary Fix I

We in the Brindle household have been working hard. Out of sheer necessity. We discovered somewhat recently that whoever owned the house before us had a pet - and it must have been using the carpet downstairs and in the fireplace room as a bathroom - and that our cat may have been contributing to the disaster. The carpet in the bedrooms didn't seem to be a problem, they're much newer, but we removed the carpet from the basement and fireplace room. And while we were at it, I convinced Eric that we should do the kitchen too (thank goodness).

We suspected that there was asbestos tile under the carpet and had planned on sealing it in with oil based kilz and a few coats of polyurethane, but after the carpet was gone, the tiles just fell off on their own. It was kind of surprising; we pulled the carpet up and the tiles were basically just sitting there on the concrete.

Before you freak out Mom, it's totally fine to mess with asbestos tiles so long as they don't break - which they didn't. Perfectly safe. And Eric wore a mask with hepa filters and a throw away suit when he was getting rid of the tack strips just in case. Totally fine.

Anyway, we had already purchased a few gallons of kilz which we no longer needed (since the basement and side room are now concrete), so we slapped some down on the old stained linoleum we discovered in the kitchen. Someday that linoleum and the flooring under it will come up, but not until the entire kitchen remodel. For now, it's nice to have a kitchen free of carpet!

The only thing is....the grey kilz kind of makes it look like we have a pink and purple kitchen :)