Busy Day

Today was a very busy day!  We went to the house this morning with the intention of cleaning out the dryer vent, in preparation for the washer/dryer delivery on Wednesday.  We knew the vent was really dirty, but we had no idea it was going to be this dirty! We stuck the end of the brush into the vent and it went about 3 inches before it got stuck.. so much for that easy idea.  Like almost all of our other projects, it was time for plan B.  We went down in the crawl space and realized the vent was about 15' long and went all the way from the laundry room floor, thru the crawl space, to the outside, in one long continuous line.  The new plan was to remove the whole line, clean it, then put it back in place.  Well, after trying once to put the brush through with the duct straight, we quickly realized this thing was never going to be clean.. ever.  It was SO FULL of dryer lint, it was HARD.  I mean, come on people! Take care of your house! We are so lucky we didn't just move in, hook up our dryer, and BAM- house fire!  As you may have guessed, we had to go to Home Depot and buy an all new vent line and just start over.  Here are some pictures of the ridiculousness. 

Peeping down from the laundry room

G-R-O-S-S

This is literally a third of it.  Whole pencils came out of this thing!

On a positive note, the kitchen floors are done!! These floors looked awful when we bought the house.  They look really good now, and it's amazing to look back at the before pictures! This was also an adventure, as we experienced a moderate flood in the kitchen, but all is well now :)  See for yourself!

Before

Before

Progress!

So much better! :)

Looks like a brand new floor!

That's all for today, but that is not all we did today! Stay tuned for before and after pictures of our laundry room! Teaser: we got $5 reject paint from Lowe's and completely transformed it!