Removing another floor
We were into the first week of August.
I had dreams of having the bathroom done by October – two months seemed like plenty of time.
We had the ceiling down; it was time to start on the floor.
We pulled back the two layers of carpet, and started removing the pine flooring. This room had a significant drop from the south east to the northwest corner – about 4” (and that was not counting how much more it dropped at the end corner in the bathroom)
We discovered that when the pine flooring was installed, the carpenter had laid boards down to help raise the level of the floor at the south end. I wonder if that made it level at the time . . . To bad they didn’t tear it back enough to fix the underlying problem, so it continued to settle.
The pad looking stuff is the foam from the bottom layer of carpet that was stuck to the pine flooring.
We also found some interesting chunks of old linoleum stuck to the flooring underneath the pine flooring. So, we had two layers of carpet, a layer of pine boards, some shims, linoleum, another layer of hardwood and a sub floor under that.
We only took the floor back far enough to get at the plumbing coming up from the old cellar. Besides, we could not remove the old bath until we had the new bath ready. I might be willing to go without a kitchen sink for a while, but not a shower/bathtub. We did have the second toilet/sink available, but only one tub.
Here is the floor bared to the joists.
And the other end, open enough for us to have access to bring up the plumbing. Didn’t want to open it any more, as the bathroom was on the other side of the hole in the floor.
As with the kitchen we installed new joists and leveled them up.
Once the plumbing was run, we were ready to put the sink in the kitchen. We actually have a new sink in the shop, but it will stay there until the new cabinets are ready.
We had been making good progress. Then my hubby got put on a job that was scheduled to run for two months. Normally he would work for a week or so, and then have some time off before going on a new job (he is a heavy equipment operator – was working for crane service at the time). He got this job because no one else wanted it. Was 40 hours a week (no over time) and very boring. But the money was good, and we could still work in the evenings and on the weekend.
