Who thought that was a good idea?

It's all fine and dandy until it's 30yrs old, stained and bare spots, reeks of dog and cat piss. Then you find out the person who installed it got a little too happy with the glue. And now not, only is it a MF'r to scrape up, you have to sand and refinish a beautiful hardwood floor that should have never been covered up in the first place. Fuck'n hippies
 
It's all fine and dandy until it's 30yrs old, stained and bare spots, reeks of dog and cat piss. Then you find out the person who installed it got a little too happy with the glue. And now not, only is it a MF'r to scrape up, you have to sand and refinish a beautiful hardwood floor that should have never been covered up in the first place. Fuck'n hippies
I cleaned up a mess just like that in the first house we bought.

Green/Orange High/Low Shag (Was there any other kind back then ?) 🤮
 
It's all fine and dandy until it's 30yrs old, stained and bare spots, reeks of dog and cat piss. Then you find out the person who installed it got a little too happy with the glue. And now not, only is it a MF'r to scrape up, you have to sand and refinish a beautiful hardwood floor that should have never been covered up in the first place. Fuck'n hippies

BTDT!!!!!
 
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It's all fine and dandy until it's 30yrs old, stained and bare spots, reeks of dog and cat piss. Then you find out the person who installed it got a little too happy with the glue. And now not, only is it a MF'r to scrape up, you have to sand and refinish a beautiful hardwood floor that should have never been covered up in the first place. Fuck'n hippies

Bought out first house in 1983 from someone in in the "carpet business". He put 1x4 in as baseboard and ran the shag carpet up the baseboard. There was 100+ staples/foot. Some into the 1x4 and many into the sheetrock. It was a nightmare to repair the sheetrock and get the 1x off the walls, oh yea, he put those on with framing nails.
 
We bought our house in 2001, my folks were down for a medical procedure and Mom decided to “Help” us.🤣🤬. While I was at work, she and my wife removed all of th once white and brown shag carpet from the house (everywhere but the kitchen and bathroom).

I finally finished the laminate flooring in 2020. 🤣🙄 It is amazing how much yuck builds up under carper through the years.
 
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We bought our house in 2001, my folks were down for a medical procedure and Mom decided to “Help” us.🤣🤬. While I was at work, she and my wife removed all of th once white and brown shag carpet from the house (everywhere but the kitchen and bathroom).

I finally finished the laminate flooring in 2020. 🤣🙄 It is amazing how much yuck builds up under carper through the years.
My wife did the same one day. Like sand dunes under the carpet. The floor stayed bare plywood until the kids feet toughened up. Eventually got vinyl flooring.
 
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Shag carpet in hippie vans

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Either here or the dash of a low rider is where it belongs.

Bought out first house in 1983 from someone in in the "carpet business". He put 1x4 in as baseboard and ran the shag carpet up the baseboard. There was 100+ staples/foot. Some into the 1x4 and many into the sheetrock. It was a nightmare to repair the sheetrock and get the 1x off the walls, oh yea, he put those on with framing nails.
Of the 5 or so times in my life that I've pulled carpet, the shag was the worst. I don't know what type of glue they used, but looked like they bought the strongest liquid nails type shit they could find and covered every square inch of floor before laying the carpet. Took me and two other people almost three hours just to pull it up from the floor, then another two days to get the glue scraped off the floor. Just about every other time I've pulled carpet, it's been a pad lightly glued down to the floor, like a real thin bead around the perimeter, and tack strips around the edge of the room with the carpet pulled tightly over the strips. The one other time it wasn't like that, it was just the carpet and tack strips, no padding.
 
Of all the subjects to pick from starting a thread about shag carpet has to rate as the
least interesting subject on the fucking planet. Who cares about shag carpet.

Whats next? Tea cup handle shapes.
 
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