FLOODING Pt-6

 FLOODING Pt-6

Putting more things back together. I'm sure as I write all this I'm missing or forgetting about things, but you'll get the general idea. Same as with the pictures, I'm pretty sure there are pictures I wich I would have used then the ones I did, or used more pictures. Some of the pictures that go along with this post might seem a little "warped" or look kind of "fish-eye", that's because I was using a real wide angle lens. Then a few might look "foggy" which is because of coming out of the cold into a warmer area and the lens fogging up a bit, and or because the sun was starting to shine through the window.

After ripping everything out then trying to piece things back together isn't always that easy. Being pretty much everything is crooked and when trying to put things back as they were I ran into a few problems like, "why did I do it like that", and or, "how did I do that"? We built on this house like 35 years ago and trying to remember how and why I did things a certain way I couldn't remember so I had to end up doing things differently.

Of course a lot of things get done the way they got done (and still do) because it comes down to the money thing. When we started we started with the bathroom. We had cold water all the time execpt for when I had to turn it off to connect the water supply lines. We didn't have hot water until we got the kitchen sink installed. We were more concerned at getting the place liviable within 6 months being that was the time we had at the temp house, so the water heater just layed on its side in the basement until we got the kitchen sink ready for use.

Originally when we first started remolding 35 years back, the sink was on thew opposite wall where the stove sits now. When I ripped up the flooring where the sink used to sit, there was a pretty big hole in the floor where the sink must have leaked for years to make a hole that big! At that time when we moved the sink I ended up leaving the hole there and covered it with hardboard then the flooring. It was why waste the time and money when no one will ever see it and a basr cabinet will be setting there.

This time I cut the "rot" out which made a square hole about 12"x12" and I had to go in the basement and put two short pieces of 2x4's under the floor so I had something to nail the end of the boards to, then put down new boards where I took the rotten boards out. This time though insted of using hardboard I went with 1/4" plywood.

So as far as getting things ready enough for us to move back in, the rooms got done in this order, bathroom, kitchen, dining room, bedroom, two small halls, laundry room, then living room.

Below are some of the pictures a little before we got ready to move back in.

TO BE CONTINUED......