Beware: This blog may take forever to load. Crap load of photos to follow. But I promised destruction so here you go... (my captioning will probably suck as Husband took most of the photos and I have don't understand all the technical stuff he found)
Floor, post carpet.
Post carpet, again.
Post carpet, duh.
Our hallway, after the tiles were removed. (Looks like crap eh?)
A close up of previous photo.
The rest of the hallway.
Apparently the jerks who owned the house before us knew the floor was falling so what did they do? Put down wooden spacers and laid a new sheet of plywood on top. Don't fix the problem, hide it!
Wooden spacers... ugh.
First cut that went all the way down.
More spacers, and Husband's tools. (Love the pitch fork!)
Picture out of bedroom into the hall.
Another spacer/tool picture. Can you see the hole in the floor? Husband didn't do that, after the first layer of plywood was removed... it was there. ugh!
Crap piping and rotten wood picture.
I think this was supposed to show how low the original floor had sunk.
Husband's junk pile, middle of day 1. (I actually took that one)
Again... I don't know.
He likes repetition.
Taken from inside bathroom doorway. Husband fell through this part of the floor.
Termite damage (?) from the section of floor Husband fell through.
The bridge he laid for me to get to the bathroom. I was terrified of dying.
Same section of flooring minus my bridge.
Rotten wood that we found once the floor was gone.
More rotten wood.
Where a joist used to be... Notice the crumpling cinder blogs underneath.
Mas rotten wood.
The half floor joist that we found intact. This was the only thing holding up our bedroom.
Up close.
Aren't Husbands knee pads awesome? lol
Random bricks and rotten wood.
Shot from the bedroom towards the hallway.
Our backdoor... and the huge drop off.
The hallway.
Husband had to cut off sections of the drywall to see if anything was actually holding the walls up. Sadly... do you see anything?
Same story in the bedroom.
The door that was to our hall closet. Husband decided we needed a new one. I won't argue.
Husband fitting a new joist into the hall.
Laying a joist in the bedroom on top of our cinder block wall.
The rebuilt joist under our backdoor.
Rebuilt joist for the hallway.
Husband trying to fit a vertical joist under a section of wall.
So there you have it. All the photos taken thus far in the great bedroom remodel of '08.
Oh... Husband and I got a great deal on some 5/8"(inch) bamboo flooring! We bought enough that we taken out our crappy/cheap laminate flooring and do the whole house in the same thing. I'm so happy, no more carpet!!!! Yippie! The tankless water heather though is another story.
Floor, post carpet.
Post carpet, again.
Post carpet, duh.
Our hallway, after the tiles were removed. (Looks like crap eh?)
A close up of previous photo.
The rest of the hallway.
Apparently the jerks who owned the house before us knew the floor was falling so what did they do? Put down wooden spacers and laid a new sheet of plywood on top. Don't fix the problem, hide it!
Wooden spacers... ugh.
First cut that went all the way down.
More spacers, and Husband's tools. (Love the pitch fork!)
Picture out of bedroom into the hall.
Another spacer/tool picture. Can you see the hole in the floor? Husband didn't do that, after the first layer of plywood was removed... it was there. ugh!
Crap piping and rotten wood picture.
I think this was supposed to show how low the original floor had sunk.
Husband's junk pile, middle of day 1. (I actually took that one)
Again... I don't know.
He likes repetition.
Taken from inside bathroom doorway. Husband fell through this part of the floor.
Termite damage (?) from the section of floor Husband fell through.
The bridge he laid for me to get to the bathroom. I was terrified of dying.
Same section of flooring minus my bridge.
Rotten wood that we found once the floor was gone.
More rotten wood.
Where a joist used to be... Notice the crumpling cinder blogs underneath.
Mas rotten wood.
The half floor joist that we found intact. This was the only thing holding up our bedroom.
Up close.
Aren't Husbands knee pads awesome? lol
Random bricks and rotten wood.
Shot from the bedroom towards the hallway.
Our backdoor... and the huge drop off.
The hallway.
Husband had to cut off sections of the drywall to see if anything was actually holding the walls up. Sadly... do you see anything?
Same story in the bedroom.
The door that was to our hall closet. Husband decided we needed a new one. I won't argue.
Husband fitting a new joist into the hall.
Laying a joist in the bedroom on top of our cinder block wall.
The rebuilt joist under our backdoor.
Rebuilt joist for the hallway.
Husband trying to fit a vertical joist under a section of wall.
So there you have it. All the photos taken thus far in the great bedroom remodel of '08.
Oh... Husband and I got a great deal on some 5/8"(inch) bamboo flooring! We bought enough that we taken out our crappy/cheap laminate flooring and do the whole house in the same thing. I'm so happy, no more carpet!!!! Yippie! The tankless water heather though is another story.
1 comment:
So, you didn't know that you had a real fixer-upper on your hands? Good thing Chris is such a great handyman. It will all be worth it at the end, and your house will look beautiful.
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