Priorities, priorities

My apartment has been giving me all sorts of opportunities to work on it lately. After thelatest water damage(upstairs neighbor’s bathroom leaking into my living room), I discovered that the textured paint in my apartment could be removed by using a wallpaper glue dissolver. I startedremoving paint in my entry, since its walls have the least surface area of the rooms in my place. The paint removal went quickly and easily, but I discovered that a floorboard was hiding a shallow but long hole in the wall.

This had several implications: I’d also been removing tile in the entry. With the floorboard out and the wall needing repaired, I realized it would be best to finish taking tile off the floor before patching and painting the wall, in case I ran into any other areas that needed patched. I finally finishedthatdifficult undertaking today, as shown in the photo above!Here it is “finished”(all tile removed). I’m glad to say that only the one floorboard area needs

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