Now that we are back from
vacation, I started working on a facelift of the powder room on our main floor.
To start Tom and I removed the toilet, sink and vanity. From there I ripped out
the vinyl floor and all the stuff hanging on the walls.
As you can see the cat was
very helpful with this endeavour.
In the adjacent den, I
ripped out the carpet and baseboards. Underneath was hardwood, which is awesome
and it’s in good condition so even better news! I’d like to sand it down, for
continuity of flooring and cost savings, Tom wants to still put the cork down,
for dust savings. We’ll see which way this goes…
Since I still wanted to tile
the bathroom floor, I installed a sub floor using ¼” plywood I already had on
hand. This is not the ideal material for a sub floor, but is the best solution
for this situation as the hardwood is already solid and a thicker material
would create an extremely large height discrepancy between the 2 rooms. With
the plywood and the tile the difference will be about ½”.
And now we know: so many
things; there is hardwood in these rooms and they built the bathroom walls
overtop. There are random metal plates in the den floor…what could it be
covering, the vents are in the wall. There are special screws just for
sub-floors.
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