Paint Disaster

Let me set the scene for you, it was Friday. We were set to move out the next day. We were spending the day packing up boxes and moving them out to the storage shed.

Remember when I re-did the kids room like this?

 

 Well before we moved out we took down all the crayons and the kids drawings. I decided it would be nice of me to paint over the blue crayon streak in the corner so I got out the yellow paint. The paint cans were on top of the bunk beds that had not yet been moved out. The first few coats were applied and the paint cans remained on top of the beds.. with the lids on top but not closed.

Fast forward a few hours, the men decide to take them matresses to the storage shed and remove the paint cans putting them on the floor next to the wall.

Fast forward a few more hours. It is night time, the house is mostly done. I am in the garage getting the yard sale items put together, Claudia is upstairs vacuuming the bedrooms, Addi is also upstairs following grandma around. Grandma starts vacuuming out the window sill in the kids room. Then it happens. The worst thing that can happen to a house the night before you are to move out.

SHE FELL INTO THE YELLOW PAINT CAN

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BOOM

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SPLASH

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Yellow paint all over the carpet. ( Grandma stopped to take a picture on her phone ;)

Grandma starts yelling for help. I am still in the garage and don't hear. Luckily Aunt Cass is outside the open window and comes running in Bri in arms. Between the two of them they get Addi into the tub without spreading the paint too much. (Although you can see her little yellow foot print above!) Poor Addi was hysterical, she could see everyone was really paniked and she knew it was her fault. It is a good thing Grandma was so calm with her or she would have really lost it.

 

We immediatly strting scooping it up and putting it back in the can. Unfortunately we had packed most of the house up so all we had was a sand box shovel, but it worked and we were scraping paint up by the shovel full. It was a sad sight. We ran to Wal-mart got a carpet cleaner and spent the next two hours dumping water and sucking it back out. By the time we were done the carpet looked pretty darn good. We thought we were in the clear. The next morning however was a totally different story. In the natural light of day the yellow wall didn't cast a hue on the rest of the carpet and you could very clearly see a big yellow spot on the carpet. We tried to clean it for another hour and finally gave up. Our landloards contacted us yesterday and said they were having a carpet guy come out to fix it. I am guessing we can kiss most of our deposit goodbye.

 

 

 Through it all I was amazed at how calm we all were. No one got angry,  no one raised voices. There was a lot of "Oh crap" and "you've got to be kidding" but mostly we just sighed and laughed at the horrible luck. We spent 3 years in the house with no major damage at all, and then the night before we move out we wreck the carpet. In hindsight I think I should have left the dang blue streak.