Sand sand sand all day long. Sand sand sand as I sing this song

Today all we did was start to strip the hallway upstairs. If you have never remodeled a house before it is interesting how lazy some people can be. There was about 3 layers of wallpaper and maybe 2 layers of paint. It made it a little easier b/c the last layer of wallpaper was so weak it was barely holding on. So you could put a 4" putty knife under it and scrap it off fairly easily. The hard part came where whoever puttied on top of the wallpaper. So you had a layer of wallpaper, putty, paint, wallpaper, and paint. It is sortof like a the rings in a tree looking at all the layers of decorating that had been going on since the house had been built. The worst part is the window and sill. There are so many layers of thick paint on there that we are going to have to get some paint stripper to get all of it off. We will prob start on that tommorrow. We finished up by cleaning up b/c our friends were comming over for dinner. We had put up all this plastic over the doors to try to control the dust and the upstairs looks like we are in a bio dome. But its taming the dust so its all good. Back to scraping and sanding tomm.