What Lies Beneath

[darkemeralds]

When Ed pulled up the subfloor of the bathroom, he discovered one of those "oops" things that I hear are inevitable in a remodel: there wasn't all that much holding up the floor.

So he took out the wimpy and too-few joists he found, and today my bathroom was the bottomless pit.




Meet Ed.


These are the days when you begin to wonder what the hell you were thinking. Moving would have been easier and cheaper.


The view from the basement.



Ed's going to put new joists in across the new, reinforced sill he added. He's then going to straighten the wall and add some missing studs.

In short, he's tearing down my bathroom and building a whole new one.

He assures me that it's all going to be wonderful in the end. Right now, it looks like the pit of doom. The very, very expensive pit of doom.

Comments

[janeeyre17.livejournal.com]

When my parents remodeled our bathroom the biggest problem was that no one knew that there was actually a giant pipe where all the plans had had the medicine cabinet.

Considering our house (there's an uneven square of wall in my room where someone cut out a window in a completely wrong place years and years ago) it was probably a minor miracle.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Old houses are chock full of fun mysteries. Happily for my bathroom project, now that Ed has stripped it down to its shell, no more surprises are forthcoming.

In fact, before I left for London this morning, he'd made good progress toward reinstalling the floor. Maybe by the time I get home I'll have plumbing again.