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Title: Carpet, Wood, or Tile? You Tell Me
Date: July 18, 2009, Saturday
Thought: I have been exiled to the second floor all week. I do not look forward to going even another day in exile.
Jog: OK, you can tell me how we did? For the last twelve years we have lived in a totally carpeted house. A few years ago, our life was changed for the better when Max came to live with us. Max is a black Labrador Retriever. He’s five years old now and is the center of my world. Well, that’s probably a little overboard, but the dang dog means a lot to me.
I don’t know if it is typical of Labs, but ours sheds tons of black hair twice a year. That means, regardless of how much I brush him and we care for him, we get black hair all over our house. The stuff has an uncanny ability of getting into the tightest space and simply drives us nuts. Worst yet, it embeds itself deep into our carpet. So, we have vacuumed and cleaned frantically trying to keep up with his rate of shedding. We have lost miserably. Try as we may, we still find wads of black hair accumulating in the corners or floating across our path, usually when visitors are present. We were at our wits end. However, one thing we knew…the dog stays; it’s his home and he is a member of our family.
And so fifteen-thousand dollars later we are looking at new tile floors throughout our first floor. I must say, the new floors are looking great. Now, we needed new flooring anyway; but, dang, the things we do for our dogs! I just hope it is worth it. It’s too late to ask your opinion now; the deed is done…or being done. But, which is best: carpet, wood, or tile?
We have had workers in our house since last Monday. Today is Saturday and they are banging around downstairs. Lord, I’m not sure they will be finished today. Linda, Max, and I have been exiled to the second floor all week. I do not look forward to going even another day in exile. But, there is no indication that we will be repatriated with our downstairs anytime soon. When I ask the tile-guy he just scratches his head and says, “Man, you got a lot of angles. Those are big-assed tiles, and you’re laying on the diagonal—takes time, man.”
The tile-guy tells me that if we’d had carpet or wood flooring installed they would be finished by now. I sense that’s his way of blaming the length of their stay on our decision to go with tile. Several times he has pointed out the time difference in laying the tile on the diagonal. So, I suppose it is all our fault. My god! We just want our house back. Tell me, did we make the right decision? –carpet, wood, or tile?
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