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Urban renewal
Mar. 9th, 2009 04:21 pmI mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I'd engaged in a bit of urban renewal at my office. I figured it was time to post some pictures, and since I'm supposed to be doing other things right now I figure it's as good a time as any.
Voila:
The blue tape is what started all of this. The carpet, which is something like 14 years old, has begun bubbling badly where heavy objects wheeled across it have separated the carpet from the padding (if there is any) and the concrete slab below it. Where the bubbling was particularly bad, or where the carpet had actually torn and was tripping people, the maintenance guys were coming around, squirting glue through a slit in the carpet, and then holding the slit carpet edges together with the blue tape. We were advised we could remove the blue tape after a day or so. No one ever removed it. *g*
Then I got tired of looking at all the bubbling, and added more tape. My goal is that, when someone comes down the hall, they see the tape designs and not the bubbling carpet. And, you know, it works!
Other shots of the same corner, which is basically an ell with my half-wall and desk at its apex:
Further shot down the same arm of the hallway.
That's my desk in front of the (very bright!) window.
Voila:
The blue tape is what started all of this. The carpet, which is something like 14 years old, has begun bubbling badly where heavy objects wheeled across it have separated the carpet from the padding (if there is any) and the concrete slab below it. Where the bubbling was particularly bad, or where the carpet had actually torn and was tripping people, the maintenance guys were coming around, squirting glue through a slit in the carpet, and then holding the slit carpet edges together with the blue tape. We were advised we could remove the blue tape after a day or so. No one ever removed it. *g*
Then I got tired of looking at all the bubbling, and added more tape. My goal is that, when someone comes down the hall, they see the tape designs and not the bubbling carpet. And, you know, it works!
Other shots of the same corner, which is basically an ell with my half-wall and desk at its apex:
Further shot down the same arm of the hallway.
That's my desk in front of the (very bright!) window.
