Monday, December 31, 2007

Bathroom Renovation #2 - Rebuilding The Floor

As we removed the concrete and the planks between the joists supporting it, we couldn't believe what we saw. How was this bathroom floor and all its weight being supported? The joists were completely rotten except the bottom inch or so. In fact, one of them fell on its own once the concrete was removed. We were hoping we would only have to sister one or two of the joists and the rest would be fine. Instead, we knew we would have to replace all the joists.
It was weird walking into the basement and looking up through a large hole into our old bathroom.The job wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't for all the cast iron plumbing, electrical, and other spaghetti hanging from the old joists. We had to support everything from below as we removed the old joists and made the new ones. This also meant we had to weave our bodies around all these pipes as we worked. Pain in the ass! Two days later we had our new floor.

1 comments:

Sandy said...

Wow! A whole lot of hard work. Looks good already!