This weekend was spent preparing for the carpet we purchased at Home Depot to be installed today. Unfortunately this included finishing up the painting of the ceilings, left over from removing the ceiling popcorn, before they got here.
Painting
For the paint, I had originally purchased the Behr ultra white flat paint. Good thing I happened to go to Lowes before painting. While I was there I came across the Olympia paint end cap. I was able to pick up a 5-gallon container of flat white interior paint for around $35. This sure beat the close to $20 per gallon I was paying for the Behr version. Truthfully, the Olympia paint probably doesn’t have the same ability to cover previously painted walls with one coat, but I was painting a freshly textured ceiling. I came to this conclusion because I got sloppy in application in a couple of places, and painted a bit of the walls too. Not that it really matters too much because I’ll repaint all the walls to try to brighten the place up a bit.
Carpet installation
The carpet installation crew that was contracted by Home Depot was pretty professional. They arrived within the first hour of the time frame they gave me, and finished the installation of a little over 1000 sq ft of carpet plus stairs in 5 hours. All in all I’m pretty pleased with the outcome of purchasing my carpet with Home Depot even with the large chunk of time I spent initially with the sales person.
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