GUTTING My New House In One Day To Remove The SMELL

On today's episode of WatchJRGO, we are back at the new house and the new shop. Obviously, the paint is one hour from being done, I'd say. And today, we're going to finish that and also get all the carpet out of the house. So we're starting with the carpet because this dumpster is now right in the way of the main door. What is going on, guys? I am WatchJRGO, and now I am inside the very smoke-smelling house. It's weird. Some days it smells less smoky. Some days it smells a little bit more smoky. But today, the goal is to rip the carpet out of as many rooms as we can because obviously, the carpet is holding a lot of the smell. And another goal is to rip all the trim out of this house because it's all trimmed with different trims. There's no cohesiveness, no design. Some of it's white with a roundover. Some of it's oak, natural stain with a routed design. Obviously, all of this is coming out anyway as we modify the whole build. That curtain rod needs to come down. A lot of stuff needs to leave and go to the dumpster. So today's goal is to get as much of this out of here and in that dumpster as we can. Now, I have a second Eric. We'll call it Eric 2, coming over from TaskRabbit. And he is going to help get carpet out of here with me because it really takes two people to hold this stuff once you roll it up. So hopefully, with two guys, we can cut the carpets in half, roll them up into smaller rolls, and start chucking them in the dumpster. And maybe in an hour or two, three, I don't know how long it's going to take. But maybe by that time, we can have all the carpet out of here, all of this stuff out of here, this chair, this chair, dumpster, the TV stand for now, like I said, but that TV stand, dumpster. And we did go through all the air conditioners. Two of them were trash, and that one worked. So we left the working one. I don't really have a use for it, but just in case, we do have one working window unit. Just in case what? I don't know what I would ever do with that. The windows in here are all the crank out that way. So you can't use window units with those. All right, let's go. All right, guys, it's time for a comprehensive update of what happened yesterday when Eric 2 was supposed to show up. I hired Eric 2 on TaskRabbit, which was something I've never done before. But I was like, you know what? I just need somebody to come help. I was going to post on Facebook. But instead, I was like, let's try TaskRabbit because that's what they do in the big cities, major metros. Well, here in Kansas, that doesn't really work. There was one guy that was available for removing old furniture or whatever. They had a task basically designed for this. So I had booked him for like 30 bucks an hour, seemed like a pretty good deal. And we were going to get this knocked out in like an hour or two and be done. Well, he never showed up. He even confirmed the appointment. He said, I got you. That was the text I got after I booked it and never showed up. TaskRabbit gave my money back, obviously. So I had already started ripping this carpet up. You can see it is absolutely filthy, terrible pad. And it's also, it looks like there was tile on here based on those like trowel glue marks. So that's always exciting. I'm going to have to scrape the carpet pad off as we go. But today we're going to actually get that carpet out of here. But the rest of the comprehensive update is I got this far and then I stopped and I went back to the shop and I started painting again. So let's head over there. So I came over here and I got busy working and I finished painting the entire shop. In fact, we can unmask everything today. And then, you know, I got to see some of this in the light and I'm like, there's really not enough coverage. I think we needed even more paint, but we covered, I mean, it looks like it's perfectly covered, but when I look like really closely, I can still see some yellow. You can even see some of the yellow through the paint, unfortunately. But I did really as good as we were ever going to do. We went through so much paint. I think by the end of it, let's see, I had 30 gallons just in five gallon buckets. I had six of those, bought out all of them in town. And we went back and we bought four more, 34 gallons total is what I ended up using. And it really wasn't enough. And the thing is the sprayer like gave up on me at the end. So 34 gallons of white paint, it looks white. I'm happy about that. I'm ready for lights. The floors start Monday. I just talked to the floor guy actually. So he'll be here Monday to start cleaning up the floors, getting them, you know, I don't think they're going to grind these because they actually said they're in good shape, but they're going to caulk all the cracks and start laying down that floor color. And you guys will see what the color is. And it's going to be, I think it's going to be pretty cool. But what had happened was while I was painting, I was down to like these two sections where we left off and I got that section done. And then I came over to this section. And by the time I got here, for some reason, the paint sprayer decided that it just didn't want to work anymore. Now it's a great paint sprayer. It's a Graco Nova, a big boy over here. And I think what happened was it just ended up with too much paint sitting in the lines for too long. So Jake and I, Jake brought me the last gallon. What's funny is it actually broke when there was only like three foot left. There were three little sections, maybe three foot of those left to do, but it just locked up like in the hose tight. Like it wasn't pulling any paint, wasn't spraying any paint, nothing was happening. So I tried priming it a couple of times, flipping it over to the prime here, the little prime switch on the side. And then I was like, well, it's just not getting any paint. So there must be some like obstruction. So I pulled the strainer off. There's a strainer right here where it picks them up out of the bucket. And this sits directly in your five gallon bucket of paint, sucks it up and feeds it into this pump head right there. Well, I was like, if there's no paint coming out of the prime or the hose, then clearly something's wrong in this hose. So we started there. We started with the filter. There was nothing wrong with the filter, even though it had a bunch of paint in it. Then we ended up pulling this hose off and just hooking a water hose up to it and flushing it and flushing it. And no water was going through it for a minute. Eventually it freed up. We ran a ton of water through it till there was no more white. And all of a sudden it was off to the races. So we were able to paint that last little bitty section, even though we wasted so much paint cleaning the hose all the way out, because we had to fill the whole thing with water and then switch back to the paint. So we lost a bunch of paint and then we had to shut the machine back down. So we learned a lot about paint sprayers really quickly. Basically hook a garden hose up to the end of this thing, pull the screen off, stick it, hold your garden hose up to it and run the sprayer. That's what we ended up doing. And we got it all cleaned out and it ended up rocking and it was working better than ever for that last 30 seconds of painting I had to do. But that's it. Jake and I learned how to paint sprayer a little bit better. So the shop is done for the most part. The only thing left is like you guys said, I did reach out to the spray foam guy and say, what's going on with that little section up there where it popped back and you can't even see it over here. You can only see it when you get close to it. There's that one big gap right there. And he said he'll be back next week. And he thinks that's where they ran out of material and switched over. So he's going to refill that section and we're going to repaint that little section. We've got just enough paint left. That's it. I mean, by the end of next week, we'll have floors and all the paint done and we'll be moving on to lights. So that is most of the comprehensive update. Then Jake and I went to Lowe's to try to buy more lights. And we picked up some locks that I can actually use to let people in and out of the house while we're working on all the projects here. So we got the Yale Assure 2s. I think that's what these are. And we're going to finish the install right now. It's not quite done yet. It's time to upgrade our security here. And to do that, we need, well, better deadbolts, obviously. So, fun fact, this door, which should obviously have a door handle on it, and for some reason it has tape on it, they just put a deadbolt on it. I think it's because they were scared of drilling holes in it. It only had a single hole. So I bought the kit last night while Jake was here and we drilled the holes for the new deadbolt. Punched both of those out. Got the deadbolt all mounted. It's super nice and sleek. I love it. We're going to do black hardware and a new handle, obviously. So that's coming up. But what we don't have here is a hole for the lock to go into here. So I just picked up some spade bits and we're going to punch a hole right here and get the striker plate mounted, put the big screws in it, all that good stuff. And then we'll have a good deadbolt and this old deadbolt we can pull off and replace with a handle. It'll be nice to have a handle so the door stays shut when you shut it. Right now it just flops around until you lock the deadbolt. Or we could just leave both and have double security. Two deadbolts is pretty hardcore. All right, time to drill a hole. I hope I'm right. You know what they say, there's no going back. All right, let's test out the lock real quick. Will it close? I should have pulled my hole inside just a hair. Right there is where it needs to be. All right, we're going to move that hole. Test number two, I moved the hole. Both locks run freely, so we're ready to chisel out our striker plate just a hair there so it can indent in where it belongs. And this should be a finished lock install. Just one door handle away from it being perfect. Handles coming soon, I promise. But this is already a big improvement. Check it out. We pull this guy shut. Locked. So we've got double the security if we want. And as soon as there's a handle on here, we'll be good to go. And you can unlock it from your phone too, which is pretty sweet. You guys can see the red dot there. Hit the button. Bluetooth low energy. Let's go. After we got that lock installed, we ended up running over to Eric's and getting out the Model A and the 65 because I needed something to take to Cars and Coffee. Here we have one of my favorite cars. Grandpa's 65 Ford. It started right up like it always does, and I took it to Cars and Coffee this morning and it was great. So now let's get back to work. Progress is moving right along here. So this room has all the carpet and pad out of it. The hallway here has all the carpet and pad out of it. I've got a cut over there, and we are stripping the living room as quickly as I can here. So right now, sorry, I've got this mask on because this stuff is nasty, but I've got half the trim out. In a second, I'll have all the rest of the trim out and we will start pulling the carpet out of the living room. Not only are we getting the inside knocked out, Rob is here who just did all the metal detecting over at Hoovie's, and he is way out here in the back. At this red barn that people love to mention, that's literally a horse barn. It is nothing like my car barn that's going beside my white house. I don't even count that as being in the neighborhood even though it's in the backyard because their house is so far over there you wouldn't even believe. It's one very rectangular property. Their house is like 2,000 foot away from this barn. Way back there in the back you can see Rob working away looking for treasure. Hopefully he finds some. He found that this was another farmstead back in the day. He had up the satellite maps. All the way back to 1954, we were taking a look at the property and this was covered in buildings. And of course, there weren't any of these other houses around, so there were just a whole bunch of small buildings, you know, all the usual out buildings that you'd find on a farm all over the place. And I think that big burn back there is another building. So I was like, if you want to look somewhere, that's probably the spot. All right, back inside. It's pretty hot inside mostly because we're ripping carpet out. I feel like this might be one of the biggest mistakes of my life. Sitting in this chair. You probably died in that thing. As you can see, all the carpet and pad and trim is out of the living room. In fact, it's much louder in here now. And we're making a lot of progress getting everything out of here. So as we headed towards the bedroom here, hallway done. This weird spot, almost done. Unfortunately, the spray foam guys, I loaned them my wrecking bar so they could get the foam out and they left it on their scissor lifts and took it. I've been looking for like three days and today I realized what happened. So I guess I'm buying a new one, let's be honest. And then I can finish getting out that trim and coming on in here in the bedroom. I just got half the chair outside and a bunch of junk off the wall that's just randomly screwed on the wall. The funniest part of this is these trim carpenters. But anyway, at least it unscrews. I guess there's that going for it. And what's really crazy, this is like a nice hardwood. This was a nice, nice hardwood and they ran screws through it. So straighten the dumpster, it all goes. At least it's easy to take off. I'll give it that. They apparently didn't know where to use finish nails and where to use Phillips screws. But I can tell you that part of the place they use finish nails is... So we're going to get the bedroom empty and this closet. It's all coming down right now. Look what they did. You guys know how they make, they make plastic holders for your hanger bars, right? Instead, they cut a U out of a piece of wood, put a million nails in it, and then nailed a piece of trim to the wall to hold this in. I think I can just beat it out of here. Just like that. That's what I was hoping for. All right, I think a couple hits. I don't even need tools. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It went too, it was too easy. It was way too easy. Some child. You guys think Ikea needs warnings on their dressers. This house needs a warning that it might fall on your kid. All right, I'll have this all out of here in a moment. Half of the random shelves that are screwed onto the walls in this house have screws on them. This one is literally just six nails. I thought I was going to... All right, nevermind. These six nails are stronger than most screws they put in. I got a hammer. I'll hit it a couple of times. It'll come down. Hey, how are you? So Rob just finished metal detecting. I did. A lot of garbage, but a couple cool things. We've got some coins, a bullet, probably shot somebody. Oh man. Lots of quarters, lots of pennies. Most all the pennies were in the seventies or sixties. So we're kind of kind of old dirt, but I think they put some feel a Chuck E. Cheese token. Oh, I was like, what is that? Yeah. Of course it still works. Yeah. Well, wait, they went bankrupt or something. Chuck E. Cheese? Didn't they? No, they're still around. That's Toys R Us. That's where a kid can be a kid. It's like a new school arcade now. That's what it is. Yes. Yeah. I don't know what that is or that. Well, that looks like a tube of like preparation H from the sixties, which probably still works. You know, this looks like a, a grease gun. It says pull up spout venting and a few things like that. And you told me what that is. That's just a little hose, a nice hose nozzle. And then that is a piece of house. Yep. I'm assuming. And then pretty much, yeah, just some coins and then a couple of cool things, I believe. Oh, that is sweet. I don't know what that is. It's a F one 17 or an F something. It looks like the wings may have come out at one time. Fold it out. I bet they did move. So there's a kind of a cool deal. Got ourselves a little 1962 Canadian penny. Okay. Okay. So the old Canada and a 1940 wheat penny. Nice wheat from the forties. So there's a couple old things here. A few things old, but most of it was kind of 60 seventies. Awesome. But you've got a lot of stuff. There's a lot more in the ground. Oh, I bet. Probably not worth. No, probably nothing. Nothing. That's treasure. It'll pay for the house, but we can always try again. True. Well, enjoy man. Enjoy this 58 cents. How much money is it really? Oh, there's probably two bucks. Okay. Okay. Yeah. That's a couple of tacos and the Chuck. So you gotta go to Chuck cheese and see if that thing works. I get, I bet it'll play still. It looks about the same as what one would be now. So I love it. Yeah. Thanks for letting me do this. I always enjoy it. It's good exercise for sure, man. Well, we are inside getting our exercise in right now. Oh, it looks good. It's looking better. I got a lot done. Pretty much stripped the house in the last hour. It's unbelievable. What a house, what a buy. Not bad. What a buy. Well, let's go check it out. Awesome. All right, guys, we made a ton of progress gutting this house. It's almost where it needs to be, which is crazy. And just basically a day, this house, it's not that bad, honestly, like it does need a lot and we're going to do a lot, but at the same time, it's not a full gut renovation, which is nice. Like the lake house, the lake house was just an insane project, but things like in here, this is going to get the, the texture fixed. It'll be changed to knock downs to the popcorn, uh, kilts the walls, patch all the little, just a couple of little holes in the walls and, uh, you know, take this up to open it up and that's it. Like, that's all we have to do. So it's not, like I said, a full gut renovation. A lot of this will go quick, like kind of one day per room jobs, uh, you know, kilts, fix the ceiling, paint, put a floor in, done, keep going. So over here, we have this one mostly cleaned up. We've got the carpet out of here. I know it's dark, uh, but without a wrecking bar, I can't get this off. I did leave all the texture for now because I do actually like carpet, even though this carpet was absolutely nasty. Uh, I like to put carpet back in a lot of rooms. Obviously I don't know what rooms, I don't know. I mean, nobody uses carpet anymore. It's kind of crazy, but, uh, you know, the bathroom is an obvious, no, even though the bathrooms here have carpet, but obviously that's a no go. The closets are an obvious, um, hardwood luxury vinyl tile solution. So I don't really know where we're going to put carpet. Check it out. We found the mother load in here. I'm super excited about that. I looked down in this cabinet, we got Hogan's heroes. Don't know what that is. I do know Shrek the third. That's pretty cool. Barbie princess instructional DVD. That one's a interesting, but over here we got house of Gucci, JP, one of the best movies of all time right there on VHS. And I've never seen this movie, so I don't, I don't know. Uh, anyway, we got really far getting all of this cleaned out, shut the, shutting the lights off as we go here. This carpet obviously is all rolled up, ready to head to the dumpster, which is sweet. And we got to pull the pad out of this room, but all the pads out of everything else, we stopped the bathroom because we got to get that chair thrown away. And that's really just throwing all this in the dumpster. Seemed more like a tomorrow job because we are very tired after working on this for hours, carpet pad, roll it up. This carpet pad, this carpet was a lot newer, and this is a really thick pad that actually rolls up. All the other pads just broke apart, but this, this is great. Rolls right up, goes right in the dumpster. Easy to carry too. Uh, obviously hallway emptied out, ready to rock and roll. This carpet gone, ready to, uh, I took the closet doors out so I could get it all out. I'm ready to shut all these lights off. Where's these? The lights that don't make sense. I can't wait to move these switches. Uh, I don't know what we're doing in there yet, but we had an idea to close it all off. We might not close it all off, but we will make that bathroom twice as big. That's for sure. In here, all cleaned up. We're really ready to sweep and come in here with a shop vac, pull any staples that are left on the floor. And like this room, windows, kilts the walls, paint, fix the ceiling, floor, done. This room will be ready to rock and roll almost immediately. And I'm going to put, I think I'm going to put the TV on that wall to cover up the return air grate. And we'll just kind of configure it. So the top of the TV meets that return air grate. And obviously we have power right there in that wall box. Done. Living room done. Like it's crazy that a lot of this stuff will get done faster than I ever expected. I think getting all that carpet out of here did start fixing things. It may be because we have all the doors open, but you know, with the doors open, a little air circulation and some kilts, we might have the smells out of this house, which would be sweet. I'm going to do the basement another day, but you know, for now we got all the carpet out of the upstairs and pretty much gutted it in one day. So I'm pretty excited about that. Anyway, good look around. You guys got to see, this is hilarious. All this stuff that was found in the house, but that's it for today, guys. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to head on over to shopwatchchairroad.com for cool shirts, not like this. This shirt is pretty cool. And please like, share, subscribe, do whatever you want to do. And I'll talk to you next time. I found this shirt on the Alaska trip and you guys know the Rolls Merlin is obviously the Rolls Royce airplane engine. We're just a cool shirt. So I was pretty excited to have this one. Red canoe made in Canada. All right, let's get out of here. This was a, this was a day.