Trouble is, the particle board did not want to come out, and after about 20 minutes of working with every tool we could think of, we ended up with this:
At that rate it would take us months to get everything up. So we took a break to eat lunch and do some creative problem solving, and decided to try a new method. Dad got his circular saw and set it to cut just to the depth of the particle board, without hitting the plywood beneath. He ran it along the inner edges of two rows of nails, so as to end up with a square of board with no nail in it. Once he got that section free, it was super easy to pry it up, and possible to get the edge of a chisel underneath the remaining nailed-down section.
It's not efficient, and it's going to take absolutely ages to get squares sawed out all over the floor, but at least it's effective and the sawing is speedy. We do what we gotta do!
Tomorrow is actual Moving Day, with a truck and everything, so tomorrow night will be our first night sleeping at The House. That, tragically, means no internet until our modem is delivered, so we may have a brief hiatus here at The Blog, but rest assured we'll be back with more crazy tales just as soon as we can!
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