Which order to do this in?

[mrsbird1129]

We finally closed on our new house this week and I'm wondering the order to do some things in. We need to put new wood flooring in, redo some wood flooring, take down some wallpaper, paint pretty much the whole interior and then add some carpeting.
Would you do all the wood flooring first, then painting and then carpet? Different order? Thanks!

[penguin23]

We're closing in two weeks and we're having the wood floors refinished first since they will need to be sanded which will spread dust everywhere. Then we are having the painters come in, since they need to prep the walls anyway (former owner was a smoker, so we have to wash with that TSP stuff and prime). The painters can use drop cloths to protect the floor. I am too worried something will happen and the walls won't be dry enough and the sand dist will stick.

[magdala9]

Wallpaper
floors
paint.

Both wall paper and floors are messy. If you do the wallpaper first, you can just let the mess drop and then clean up at the end.

[housegeek]

I'd un-wallpaper and paint, so there's not as much concern for drops on the floor, then replace the floors.

[studytime45]

I would do the floors last so you don't accidentally ruin them with paint/water/soap or whatever else you're using to take down the wallpaper.

[emoflamingo]

I'd go top to bottom, myself, so wallpaper/paint and then flooring.

[kristilynnmy]

If you can take down wall paper first, paint, do floors last. That's how we did it but we weren't living here when we did renovations.

[winofairy]

Jun 1, 2012 16:15:46 GMT -5 housegeek said:

I'd un-wallpaper and paint, so there's not as much concern for drops on the floor, then replace the floors.

Exactly this ^^^

[TBM]

If I wasn't living in the space, I would do the wallpaper, then the floor, then paint. If I was going to have to live there while doing it, I would have the floors done before moving in and protect the floors while doing the other work.