Goodbye, Mr. Subfloor!

Bye-bye, floor!! Shawn finished ripping it up today. The first two pictures are one room, the third picture is the other room. The fourh is an explanation. Remember the importance of foundations and sills from yesterday's lesson? Well, that little pile of bricks IS our foundation, and to it's left a concrete block IS our foundation, and to the right there's, well..., very little. Our busted house needs some help.

Oh, and in the picture down below... Those two purple lines outline the sill. Or at least they outline where a sill ought to be. It appears to have partially rotted away. Again, note also the little brick foundation to the left and the utter lack of foundation to the right. Yeah, that wall moves when you grab it and shake it with one hand. Looks like we have a little work to do.

Some Pictures...

This is our one room cabin, like Laura Ingalls Wilder grew up in except with more electronics and other 21st century crap. The stove and fridge are behind the photographer (me) and the kitchen sink is to our right. The bedroom and bath are upstairs but beyond that we have nothing for now as the doorway to the left in the back is blocked off. It's so cozy that the part of me that longs for the simple life sometimes wonders why we're working on the front two rooms anyway. But I suppose sawing them right off the house would be more difficult anyway.

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The matched set of cats (mama and son) enjoyed their last nap on the cat-stained rug this morning before we blocked off the room and starting ripping it apart. The "kitten" (one year old last week) has spent his life surrounded by construction. His mother came into our lives in June of '08 while we were demolishing the old back laundry room roof. We put her inside the house to protect her from the shingles that were flying off the roof and she curled up under our dining room table and hasn't left yet. I guess that makes her our cat. (Her kiddo was born under the same table a few weeks later.)

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There's Shawn, the guy of the house, terrorizing the bottom two feet of the wall. We need to do that to see the wall studs if we intend to replace the floor, floor joists, sills, foundation, and anything else that might be below our feet. We're not improving the walls this year (though we'll need to someday) so we'll just replace the bottom two feet of drywall when we're done with the foundation and floors. Not pretty, but at least it'll be an ugly wall on a solid foundation...a vast improvement indeed.