Oopsy Daisy!
Oh man, am I ever gonna hurt tomorrow.
Walking into the hallway I suddenly found my foot flying out from under me. There being nothing to grab hold of to stop me from going down, I went DOWN! Now, trying to remember everything that happened in that split-second, I stepped with my right foot onto a rug we have there. Said rug has a rubbery non-slip backing on it, which failed. Horribly. So when my right leg flew out from under me I, simultaneously, cried out in surprise, tried to shift my momentum to my left leg and, seeing that was not going to happen, put my hands down to help break the inevitable. Immediate pain points were: right butt cheek, right wrist, left hand and left knee. And now, a few hours after-the-incident, I'm feeling something in the area of my right shoulder and up that side of my neck.
In my anger after falling, I threw the rug out into the garage (this all happened in the entryway from the garage into the house), grabbed a towel and bottle of cleaner and scrubbed the floor over and over and over. Well, it didn't help. The area is still slick as snot!
I don't know what the flooring material is because it was there when we bought the house. It's "wood" but I think it's the faux-wood stuff. Before we bought the house we discussed the "wood" flooring explicitly. We're more the ceramic tile type. I remember saying I was okay with the "wood" as long as the future included replacing it with ceramic tile. Deal. Okay. Sold.
I've never, ever had this slick-as-ice problem in any of our houses that had tile. So...
Can we redo "wood" with ceramic tile now? Sure, if we're willing to skip some traveling. Hmmmm... Grrr, grouse, moan!
On a lighter note!
My cat, Spot (he's the cutey on my profile page), having earlier begged to go out into the aforementioned garage (he claims to be warding off mice but I think it's all about the treats he gets when he comes back inside), is refusing to come in. I have checked on him several times now but he isn't interested. Fine. I put a dish of water out there, told him good night and closed the door. I'll check again before I finally go to bed. Brat!
Walking into the hallway I suddenly found my foot flying out from under me. There being nothing to grab hold of to stop me from going down, I went DOWN! Now, trying to remember everything that happened in that split-second, I stepped with my right foot onto a rug we have there. Said rug has a rubbery non-slip backing on it, which failed. Horribly. So when my right leg flew out from under me I, simultaneously, cried out in surprise, tried to shift my momentum to my left leg and, seeing that was not going to happen, put my hands down to help break the inevitable. Immediate pain points were: right butt cheek, right wrist, left hand and left knee. And now, a few hours after-the-incident, I'm feeling something in the area of my right shoulder and up that side of my neck.
In my anger after falling, I threw the rug out into the garage (this all happened in the entryway from the garage into the house), grabbed a towel and bottle of cleaner and scrubbed the floor over and over and over. Well, it didn't help. The area is still slick as snot!
I don't know what the flooring material is because it was there when we bought the house. It's "wood" but I think it's the faux-wood stuff. Before we bought the house we discussed the "wood" flooring explicitly. We're more the ceramic tile type. I remember saying I was okay with the "wood" as long as the future included replacing it with ceramic tile. Deal. Okay. Sold.
I've never, ever had this slick-as-ice problem in any of our houses that had tile. So...
Can we redo "wood" with ceramic tile now? Sure, if we're willing to skip some traveling. Hmmmm... Grrr, grouse, moan!
On a lighter note!
My cat, Spot (he's the cutey on my profile page), having earlier begged to go out into the aforementioned garage (he claims to be warding off mice but I think it's all about the treats he gets when he comes back inside), is refusing to come in. I have checked on him several times now but he isn't interested. Fine. I put a dish of water out there, told him good night and closed the door. I'll check again before I finally go to bed. Brat!