I'm getting ready to rip out the carpet in my basement (fully completed basement) as it's the original 1983 carpet and, with the cats & dogs (plus the previous owners' cats & dogs), it's time to replace it. I have a "floating" concrete basement. Instead of a single humungo slab, the basement's made up of 4'x8' slabs of concrete. That way, if one shifts, it doesn't screw up the entire basement. Pretty nifty design. Not too keen on replacing the carpet (mostly doing it myself), but it needs to be done. Got a nice roll of baby blue carpet pretty thick 15'x16' for $134 and a 7/16th moistureguard carpet pad for $55. I didn't think that was too bad.. an entire room's worth of carpeting for less than $200, plus some elbow grease (now THAT'S the painful part).
I sold some of my humungus bluebeards from my pond area. They were overgrowing EVERYTHING. My pond got eaten by one of them. 2 plants had taken up a space about 12' wide and about 5' deep. That's where I'm going to be putting the Blue Nile & Charles de Gaulle I'm getting in from Palatine. And maybe Moody Blues... all depends.
