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taz_39Generally speaking, considering how much I travel (probably around 60 flights, drives, or bus rides per year), I've had incredibly good travel fortune *knocks on wood*
Certainly every year there are 1-2 major snafus, and several delays and inconveniences, but in the end I always do get where I'm going.
I am saying that out loud because it has been less than a year touring with BATB, and already we've had several..."trying" travel days. I want to remember to be appreciative that things have mostly gone smoothly.
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That said, I went to sleep around 11:30pm and was rudely awoken just a few minutes later by my phone screaming and the following alert
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....followed shortly by a tornado siren outside. Wheeeee.
Fortunately there was not an actual tornado in Louisville, but this is their alert system for watches as well as warnings. The siren continued for about 20 minutes, and stopped after the imminent threat was deemed to have passed. It took a long time to get back to sleep but I finally managed around 1am. My alarm went off at 3:30am...at which point I saw that my flight had been cancelled. Sigh.
Hilariously, if I had booked an even earlier flight (5am takeoff!) I might have actually made it!!
American Airlines had auto-rebooked me on the next available flight: an overnight/redeye that would arrive around 1am on Tuesday. Umm, no. I searched flights frantically, but everything was of course either cancelled or astronomically priced, and only 3 flights would get me to Orlando today, and all of them had late night arrivals.
And so of course next I looked at rental cars. It would be an awfully long drive, but considering the flights would arrive at the same time it didn't really make a difference to me. ALL of the airport rental cars were sold out (not surprising, I'm sure there were a lot of cancellations) but there was a Hertz nearby that seemed to have some rentals. I made a booking for $400, which was the cheapest I could find for a one-way.
At that point I checked my email to see the rental confirmation and saw that Aaron (Company management) had sent flight rebooking options. They were the same ones I'd found, astronomically priced, and although Disney was willing to both pay for that AND extend my hotel room, I'd have to sit around for the whole day and then Uber to the airport, fly, Uber home, and still arrive later than if I'd driven. Therefore I sent Aaron my rental car findings and asked if Disney might cover it. He said yes. I was unable to get back to sleep after that, so spent the time submitting refund requests for my prepaid luggage and cancelling my Instacart order for today (I'll have the rental car through Tuesday morning so why not use it.)
At time of typing, I've finished breakfast and in a few minutes I'll Uber to the rental place to see if they actually do have cars available. If so, this travel day will be a 14-hour drive on 3ish hours of sleep.
But you know what? That's still way more sleep than most parents of newborns get!! BAM.
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MONDAY
They had THREE rental cars available and were way overbooked, but I was the first to show up and therefore I got a car. YAY! I let Aaron know, then hit the road. The sky looked very interesting. It was very windy, and although the storm system had passed Louisville I'd be driving right into it on the way to Orlando.
The first part of the trip was fine. When I got to the Cumberland area of Tennessee, though, I-65 S was quite the winter wonderland. The wind made the snow blow directly AT the windshield, plus the highway wound through the mountains, up and down steep inclines.
Still, it is nothing I haven't driven before (compared to driving through the Rockies this is NOTHING) and I just went slowly and diligently along until the snow turned to slush, then rain. Stopped for gas or snacks or to pee as needed, and tried to go for as long as I could between stops. Hit the expected awful traffic in Atlanta, some construction traffic elsewhere, and there were one or two accidents. But overall it was a very smooth trip.
10-or-so hours later I was in Florida. Even if I hadn't seen the welcome sign, the change in the foliage is immediate. Swampy trees draped in Spanish moss, pines that look prehistoric, saw palms and tall palms and cranes that look like pterodactyls flying overhead. Ospreys carrying fish. I could easily imagine a dinosaur peeking out from among the trees along the highway.
I finally reached home in the 13th hour (10pm.) I made REALLY good time all things considered. Jameson was just getting ready for bed when I walked in the door. I'd barely gotten any sleep and was bleary-eyed from staring at the road for 13 hours, but hugged him tightly and took time to marvel at the lovely new flooring! (And cringe at the absolutely awful coating of GREY DUST on EVERY SINGLE SURFACE. More on that later.) We went to bed pretty quickly.
As I was starting to drift off I was still getting notifications for the auto-rebooked flight that I hadn't taken: it was delayed twice, and had just landed in Charlotte at 11:30pm. Where the connecting flight was also delayed. Yeah, I made the right choice.
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TUESDAY
Sadly I could not catch up on sleep just yet. The rental car needed to be returned, but before that I was up at 6:45am to be at Publix right when it opened. I needed food for myself and ingredients for dinner for us. I don't have a car any more, remember? So it was now or never. That done, I slammed down breakfast as Jameson left for work, then fought rush hour traffic to the airport. Returned the rental and got an Uber back home.
And then...it was time to face The Dust.
The floors are beautiful...but literally every surface is coated in very fine, slightly sticky grey dust. And there are small pebbles of plaster or tile here and there. It's even gotten inside the cabinets, so it's on some of our dishes, clothing, appliances, etc. Not to mention on the tops of picture frames and on chairs and between keyboard buttons, and...
Just looking at it made me SO anxious and upset. It's impossible. We are going to be breathing and eating this dust for YEARS and there's absolutely nothing to do about it. But after a few deep breaths and thinking carefully about it, I accepted that I was just going to have to spend a little time, every single day for the next three weeks, fighting The Dust.
It's the same as practicing trombone. A little every day, and as long as you stick to it, relentless and gradual progress is made. Half as much dust is better than full dust; 1/4 as much dust will be better still. With that in mind and some desperate determination, I put on a KN95 and got to work. The kitchen was first because we need to be able to prepare food safely first and foremost (wtf has Jameson been eating?! The Dust, that's what :/ ) After researching online I had bought some microfiber cloths. I wiped each counter down with a wet microfiber, then a dry one to avoid kicking the dust into the air. I wiped or hand-washed every single bottle, cup, appliance, and piece of dishware on the counter. I wiped down all of the cabinet doors and inside the doors. Wiped each individual spice jar and the rack. Carefully wiped down the stove, my coffee pot, the toaster.
Ate a quick lunch then tackled the cupboard. Every single food item, jar, box of supplies was coated in The Dust. Starting at the top shelf, I removed and wiped every single thing using a Swiffer dry duster, then wiped the shelf down, then put everything back and proceeded to the next shelf down. Throwing away expired items as I went. Wiped and mopped the entire kitchen floor. Then wiped the kitchen chandelier, table, all of the chairs, placemats, etc.
By the time all of that was done it was about 2pm and time to start prepping dinner, a stew that would take 3 hours to simmer. I washed all of the dishes I'd be using and then cooked as normal. Got the stew bubbling on the stove, then got to work on the brown Irish soda bread. This isn't the sweet kind with raisins and caraway seeds; it's a rustic loaf that comes together like biscuit dough. A mix of wheat and white flour, buttermilk, egg, salt, baking soda, and butter. Smoosh it loosely together, bless it with a cross and poke it in each quarter to "let the faeries out." Bake for 45 minutes.
A few minutes before Jameson got home I made mashed potatoes and took the lid off the stew. Jameson walked in just as I was finishing, took a deep whiff of the homemade food, and smiled :) He doesn't cook for himself much at all, and this is probably the first homemade meal he's had since I left for tour months ago. It turned out wonderfully. The stew was tender beef cubes with carrots, celery, onion, garlic, thyme, bacon, salt and pepper, Guinness, and a splash of Worcestershire. It was REALLY good, and we both used the hearty brown bread to sop up the rich broth. The potatoes were just a good blank canvas and texture contrast.
I cleaned up while Jameson gamed, then we watched baseball together on the new couch-thing (I can sit there too now! Nice!)
A very productive day. And, Happy St. Paddy's Day!
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Wednesday: Jameson has an MRI for his shoulder, and work. I will tackle the guest bedroom so I'm not breathing in loads of dust while practicing trombone, and I need to scan all of my tax documents.
Thursday: Jameson will be working at Disney so I'll have the house to myself. Will tackle the master bath, and if there's time I'll dry-Swiffer and mop ALL of the new flooring too.
Certainly every year there are 1-2 major snafus, and several delays and inconveniences, but in the end I always do get where I'm going.
I am saying that out loud because it has been less than a year touring with BATB, and already we've had several..."trying" travel days. I want to remember to be appreciative that things have mostly gone smoothly.
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That said, I went to sleep around 11:30pm and was rudely awoken just a few minutes later by my phone screaming and the following alert
(remember that you can click to open in a new tab and enlarge)
....followed shortly by a tornado siren outside. Wheeeee.
Fortunately there was not an actual tornado in Louisville, but this is their alert system for watches as well as warnings. The siren continued for about 20 minutes, and stopped after the imminent threat was deemed to have passed. It took a long time to get back to sleep but I finally managed around 1am. My alarm went off at 3:30am...at which point I saw that my flight had been cancelled. Sigh.
Hilariously, if I had booked an even earlier flight (5am takeoff!) I might have actually made it!!
American Airlines had auto-rebooked me on the next available flight: an overnight/redeye that would arrive around 1am on Tuesday. Umm, no. I searched flights frantically, but everything was of course either cancelled or astronomically priced, and only 3 flights would get me to Orlando today, and all of them had late night arrivals.
And so of course next I looked at rental cars. It would be an awfully long drive, but considering the flights would arrive at the same time it didn't really make a difference to me. ALL of the airport rental cars were sold out (not surprising, I'm sure there were a lot of cancellations) but there was a Hertz nearby that seemed to have some rentals. I made a booking for $400, which was the cheapest I could find for a one-way.
At that point I checked my email to see the rental confirmation and saw that Aaron (Company management) had sent flight rebooking options. They were the same ones I'd found, astronomically priced, and although Disney was willing to both pay for that AND extend my hotel room, I'd have to sit around for the whole day and then Uber to the airport, fly, Uber home, and still arrive later than if I'd driven. Therefore I sent Aaron my rental car findings and asked if Disney might cover it. He said yes. I was unable to get back to sleep after that, so spent the time submitting refund requests for my prepaid luggage and cancelling my Instacart order for today (I'll have the rental car through Tuesday morning so why not use it.)
At time of typing, I've finished breakfast and in a few minutes I'll Uber to the rental place to see if they actually do have cars available. If so, this travel day will be a 14-hour drive on 3ish hours of sleep.
But you know what? That's still way more sleep than most parents of newborns get!! BAM.
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MONDAY
They had THREE rental cars available and were way overbooked, but I was the first to show up and therefore I got a car. YAY! I let Aaron know, then hit the road. The sky looked very interesting. It was very windy, and although the storm system had passed Louisville I'd be driving right into it on the way to Orlando.
The first part of the trip was fine. When I got to the Cumberland area of Tennessee, though, I-65 S was quite the winter wonderland. The wind made the snow blow directly AT the windshield, plus the highway wound through the mountains, up and down steep inclines.
Still, it is nothing I haven't driven before (compared to driving through the Rockies this is NOTHING) and I just went slowly and diligently along until the snow turned to slush, then rain. Stopped for gas or snacks or to pee as needed, and tried to go for as long as I could between stops. Hit the expected awful traffic in Atlanta, some construction traffic elsewhere, and there were one or two accidents. But overall it was a very smooth trip.
10-or-so hours later I was in Florida. Even if I hadn't seen the welcome sign, the change in the foliage is immediate. Swampy trees draped in Spanish moss, pines that look prehistoric, saw palms and tall palms and cranes that look like pterodactyls flying overhead. Ospreys carrying fish. I could easily imagine a dinosaur peeking out from among the trees along the highway.
I finally reached home in the 13th hour (10pm.) I made REALLY good time all things considered. Jameson was just getting ready for bed when I walked in the door. I'd barely gotten any sleep and was bleary-eyed from staring at the road for 13 hours, but hugged him tightly and took time to marvel at the lovely new flooring! (And cringe at the absolutely awful coating of GREY DUST on EVERY SINGLE SURFACE. More on that later.) We went to bed pretty quickly.
As I was starting to drift off I was still getting notifications for the auto-rebooked flight that I hadn't taken: it was delayed twice, and had just landed in Charlotte at 11:30pm. Where the connecting flight was also delayed. Yeah, I made the right choice.
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TUESDAY
Sadly I could not catch up on sleep just yet. The rental car needed to be returned, but before that I was up at 6:45am to be at Publix right when it opened. I needed food for myself and ingredients for dinner for us. I don't have a car any more, remember? So it was now or never. That done, I slammed down breakfast as Jameson left for work, then fought rush hour traffic to the airport. Returned the rental and got an Uber back home.
And then...it was time to face The Dust.
The floors are beautiful...but literally every surface is coated in very fine, slightly sticky grey dust. And there are small pebbles of plaster or tile here and there. It's even gotten inside the cabinets, so it's on some of our dishes, clothing, appliances, etc. Not to mention on the tops of picture frames and on chairs and between keyboard buttons, and...
Just looking at it made me SO anxious and upset. It's impossible. We are going to be breathing and eating this dust for YEARS and there's absolutely nothing to do about it. But after a few deep breaths and thinking carefully about it, I accepted that I was just going to have to spend a little time, every single day for the next three weeks, fighting The Dust.
It's the same as practicing trombone. A little every day, and as long as you stick to it, relentless and gradual progress is made. Half as much dust is better than full dust; 1/4 as much dust will be better still. With that in mind and some desperate determination, I put on a KN95 and got to work. The kitchen was first because we need to be able to prepare food safely first and foremost (wtf has Jameson been eating?! The Dust, that's what :/ ) After researching online I had bought some microfiber cloths. I wiped each counter down with a wet microfiber, then a dry one to avoid kicking the dust into the air. I wiped or hand-washed every single bottle, cup, appliance, and piece of dishware on the counter. I wiped down all of the cabinet doors and inside the doors. Wiped each individual spice jar and the rack. Carefully wiped down the stove, my coffee pot, the toaster.
Ate a quick lunch then tackled the cupboard. Every single food item, jar, box of supplies was coated in The Dust. Starting at the top shelf, I removed and wiped every single thing using a Swiffer dry duster, then wiped the shelf down, then put everything back and proceeded to the next shelf down. Throwing away expired items as I went. Wiped and mopped the entire kitchen floor. Then wiped the kitchen chandelier, table, all of the chairs, placemats, etc.
By the time all of that was done it was about 2pm and time to start prepping dinner, a stew that would take 3 hours to simmer. I washed all of the dishes I'd be using and then cooked as normal. Got the stew bubbling on the stove, then got to work on the brown Irish soda bread. This isn't the sweet kind with raisins and caraway seeds; it's a rustic loaf that comes together like biscuit dough. A mix of wheat and white flour, buttermilk, egg, salt, baking soda, and butter. Smoosh it loosely together, bless it with a cross and poke it in each quarter to "let the faeries out." Bake for 45 minutes.
A few minutes before Jameson got home I made mashed potatoes and took the lid off the stew. Jameson walked in just as I was finishing, took a deep whiff of the homemade food, and smiled :) He doesn't cook for himself much at all, and this is probably the first homemade meal he's had since I left for tour months ago. It turned out wonderfully. The stew was tender beef cubes with carrots, celery, onion, garlic, thyme, bacon, salt and pepper, Guinness, and a splash of Worcestershire. It was REALLY good, and we both used the hearty brown bread to sop up the rich broth. The potatoes were just a good blank canvas and texture contrast.
I cleaned up while Jameson gamed, then we watched baseball together on the new couch-thing (I can sit there too now! Nice!)
A very productive day. And, Happy St. Paddy's Day!
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Wednesday: Jameson has an MRI for his shoulder, and work. I will tackle the guest bedroom so I'm not breathing in loads of dust while practicing trombone, and I need to scan all of my tax documents.
Thursday: Jameson will be working at Disney so I'll have the house to myself. Will tackle the master bath, and if there's time I'll dry-Swiffer and mop ALL of the new flooring too.
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Date: 2026-03-18 03:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-03-18 11:33 am (UTC)Sounds like you see my problem haha
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Date: 2026-03-18 12:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-03-18 03:44 pm (UTC)I thought that was deliberate. Whoa, look at all that dust!!!
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Date: 2026-03-18 04:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-03-18 03:57 am (UTC)What the heck with the dust! I'm over here trying to figure out how installing flooring could do that. Saw planks inside your house?
The photo of the stew made my mouth water.
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Date: 2026-03-18 12:03 pm (UTC)I've got to be honest with you, I'm totally flabbergasted by this question. You can't just nicely pick up each tile individually from your own floor, right? Like, the flooring in your own home is held down with plaster or cement, right? i.e. the tiles are cemented to each other and to the floor?
So, with that (new?) information, and possibly referencing home renovations you've seen taking place, think about your own floors. Are they tile, wood, laminate? How do you suppose tiles, wood, or laminate that have been cemented or plastered to the concrete foundation of your home would have to be removed?
I'm sorry that this is a rude response, but seriously, I am blown away that one wouldn't think there'd be dust and debris and cleanup involved in replacing all of the floors in a home! It's possible that I didn't understand the question?
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Date: 2026-03-19 01:15 am (UTC)Please know that I would not (intentionally) ask you something that I can figure out myself, or that I would ever expect you to go out of your way to answer. My intentions are positive and comments hopefully conversational, and my apologies if I came across badly.
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Date: 2026-03-19 02:28 am (UTC)I was wondering if this was a real question, and then a second person asked where the dust could be from, and I just...I really did not know what I was supposed to respond with. Renovation or construction of nearly any kind will generate dust, and I genuinely thought that was common knowledge. But if multiple people don't know it then it must not be.
I'm sorry, and I'll try to keep working on kindness, because I don't want you to have to apologize when you had a legitimate question.
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Date: 2026-03-19 02:41 am (UTC)I did almost mention all the drywall dust from when my bathroom was worked on. That, luckily, was isolated to the bathroom and into my bedroom. I need more drywall work done but I don't want to do it when it will get sucked into the AC and potentially who knows where else.
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Date: 2026-03-19 02:59 am (UTC)I think that's kind of what happened here. It has been four weeks and I just got home. If no cleaning was done after the contractors left (which I suspect), a whole month seems like plenty of time for dust to be carried via HVAC to every flat surface.
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Date: 2026-03-19 03:06 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2026-03-18 04:01 am (UTC)Your stew looks amazing!!
What is The Dust from?? Like what part of a flooring install makes that much dust? I had a similar condition once from saw cutting into a block wall, it got into my closet and I dealt with it for months. (Demo guys didn’t do any job site containment). My sympathies, I know how omnipresent the dust can be!
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Date: 2026-03-18 12:16 pm (UTC)Thanks, about the stew.
I've got to be honest with you, I am totally flabbergasted by this question.
You just said you had "a similar condition once" and then described exactly how you had so much dust.
YOU KNOW why there's so much dust!!! You literally just told ME!!! LOL!!!
But ok, let's think about it together. Think about the flooring in your own home. Are they tile, wood, laminate? You can't just reach down and pick up each tile individually from your own floor, right? Like, the flooring in your own home is not just lying there floating free on the foundation of your house...it's held down with plaster or cement, right? And the tiles or boards or whatever are also held together, which is why they're a single floor/piece now, and not individual tiles/boards that you can pick up, right?
So, with that (new?) information, and possibly referencing home renovations you've seen: how do you suppose flooring that has been cemented or plastered in place, or tile/stone/wood that has been glued together to create a floor, would have to be removed?
I'm sorry that this is a rude response, but seriously, I am blown away that one wouldn't think there'd be dust and debris and cleanup involved in replacing all of the floors in a home! It's possible that I didn't understand the question?
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Date: 2026-03-18 01:21 pm (UTC)I am a licensed general contractor. I build things for a living. I have never seen that amount of dust you describe from a flooring demo. I was just wondering if they used a sander or a jackhammer or what. I will refrain from dumb questions.
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Date: 2026-03-19 01:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-03-19 01:39 am (UTC)Who said anything about quantity??? I didn't describe it being inches thick, or piling up in drifts or anything. Where is everyone getting quantity from? And I have not shared any pics for people to draw comparisons or even guess how much dust there is, so where is this all coming from?
Also when people are asking where the dust is "from," it's making me even more confused because isn't it obvious that it's from the process of removing the old flooring??? Regardless of how that process takes place, wouldn't it generate dust regardless? Even if a "dust-free" floor removal were offered, dust and debris would still HAPPEN, it would just be removed by the contractors instead of the homeowners. Like why is this a question? Is it not self-evident?
TL;DR I have no idea how MUCH dust there is, just that it's on everything. And when people expressed surprise at "how much dust" or where the dust could possibly be FROM, I was equally flabbergasted that dust was apparently not something people expect to occur during a major home renovation.
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Date: 2026-03-19 01:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-03-19 02:53 am (UTC)When you demo'd the floor in your mom's kitchen, it sounds like it was just the kitchen and not the whole house? And did you two the work yourselves? I'm going guess that you might not have used jackhammers or circular saws, and might have had a different process than these contractors.
I am also going to guess that you two (being women and therefore smarter than men!) probably cleaned up after yourselves immediately after you were finished, or over the course of the next several days after replacing that floor. In our case, the reno involved all of the flooring in the house except the bedrooms all at the same time. Afterward I do not know what cleanup occurred because I was traveling for work. But it has now been 4 weeks and if NO cleanup occurred after the contractors left (which I suspect), I can imagine that four weeks is plenty of time for dust to be carried via the HVAC from room to room and be distributed as a fine coating on nearly every flat surface. But I have never done a flooring reno before, I was not present at all when this one occurred, and have no idea what I should have expected dust-wise or how to answer questions about the origin of the dust (which I thought was more than a little apparent) or why there was so much of it (which I never described or gave anyone a baseline to determine.) That still doesn't excuse that I shouldn't have answered the way I did.
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Date: 2026-03-19 01:21 am (UTC)Yeah, I'd gathered you were a contractor which is why I was surprised at the question. And from the personal experience you described it sounded like you also knew exactly where the dust would be from or how it might be generated, so I was confused because it seemed like you were answering your own question.
I did describe that the dust was on everything. I didn't make note of the thickness or quantity. I don't know if it's a lot or a little compared to other flooring demos or how that could be determined without more info. It IS on everything, but does that mean there's a lot of it, or that a normal amount of dust spread unusually far during the install? And since I travel for work I wasn't present for the install. Monday was my first time seeing the space in person.
Knowing a fraction of what you know about floor demos, I'm assuming the dust has managed to cover everything in the house because A) it has now been 4 weeks since the floors were installed and Jameson has done virtually no cleanup since then, or B) because nobody turned off the HVAC while work was being done and/or it was turned back on without cleanup having been done. Or both of those things? I have no point of comparison.
In some of the videos that Jameson sent me, they were using a loud jackhammer-like machine to break the tile (the majority of the flooring being replaced was tile.) In another video there was a large sledgehammer thing being used. Tiled areas were the dining room, kitchen, entryway, and two bathrooms. The bathrooms are small and enclosed so I assume when they were breaking up the tile there, the dust and plaster was contained there, because the dust is thicker in the bathrooms and there are lots more plaster pieces in there than anywhere else in the house. In the kitchen and guest bedroom there was a very visible coating of grey dust, but it wasn't as thick. You could see it on black/dark things and feel it on almost every surface even if you couldn't see it.
In the kitchen it wasn't thick enough to be visible on the counters but I could feel it on the floor under my feet and on the cabinet faces. When I opened cabinet doors I could see a fuzz of it inside some of the doors. I have no idea if they put anything over the cupboards or not before starting work because I wasn't here. If I HAD been here I would have removed EVERYTHING from the cupboards. I have no idea if anyone told Jameson he should do that, but he didn't.
Now you know all that I know. I'll have some pictures of the guest bedroom and the bathrooms in the next post that might give an idea of quantity. But I have no idea what kind of quantity or spread is considered normal; all I know is that the dust is on every surface. When asked where the dust is "from" it seemed obvious to me that it would be from the removal of the old flooring no matter how that process occurred.
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Date: 2026-03-19 01:16 am (UTC)Saw your comments to other people and tbh so much of the amount of dust from flooring removal is based on the type of floor removed. I've demo'd two different types of flooring at my mom's house (carpet, vinyl tile), plus helped with installing another flooring type (ceramic tile), and none of it resulted in the house being covered in dust. So, like others have said, I'm a little surprised about dust getting into nooks and crannies everywhere as you described.
ETA: to clarify, not asking you to explain or google an answer for me. Just wanted to express my surprise.
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Date: 2026-03-19 02:35 am (UTC)I was not present for this floor install because I travel for work. So I have no idea what did or did not happen that might have caused this. All I get to see is the aftermath.
I can also speculate. It's been four weeks since the floor was installed. That's a month. That's a lot of time for an HVAC system and ceiling fans to pull dust all over the house, I would think. I have no idea if the QUANTITY of dust is more or less than other floor installs; I have no point of comparison and I'm guessing most other people would actually clean up after their floor was installed, which Jameson did not do. These are factors that may partially explain why there is dust all over the house, but ultimately I wasn't here to see what happened.
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Date: 2026-03-19 01:22 pm (UTC)Lovely looking stew. That's pretty much the Guinness stew recipe I use, other than I add a bottle of Guinness and some tomato paste.
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Date: 2026-03-19 05:44 pm (UTC)