The Bathroom

We have been talking for a while about what projects we want to do on the house this year.  Since spring is hopefully just around the corner, we have decided to go ahead and start one.  From the title of this post, it is obvious which room we decided to go with.

If you remember this post, you know that our bathroom isn't that bad.  You can see little pieces of the bad part in a few of the photos.  Can you guess what it is?  Need a hint?

The floor.  [notice my little helper there in the picture?]

In case you can't tell, that is navy blue outdoor carpet on the floor.  It is something you might see on a screened-in porch or... well... anywhere but a bathroom.  The bathroom is not the place for outdoor carpet.  It's old, it's grimy, and it is not a suitable water barrier for the subfloor.

Here's what I mean:

I'm not 100% sure what the dark black spot is.  It's grainy.  I didn't touch it.  the dark spots on the top of the photo [the white on the left is the wall, the white on the top is our bathtub] is water damage and quite possibly mold.  Thankfully, there isn't a lot and we were already planning on replacing the subfloor.

 

Here's my handsome husband.  This is after the quarter-round was taken off and the carpet thrown in the garbage.  Look how happy he seems.  He has a power tool in his hand.  Boys + Power Tools = Happy.

Here he is removing the first piece of subfloor with a couple of our furry helpers.  That first piece of subfloor was a huge pain to get out.  We learned a lot of interesting things just by removing that one piece.

Why is our bathroom so creaky?  

Because underneath the OSB subfloor, there are three layers of hardwood stacked on top of one another so that the bathroom floor would be the same level as the floor in the hallway.  The hardwoods didn't cover the entire floor.  Oh, no.  The two-inch slats were spaced every twelve inches or so, leaving hollow areas over most of our floor.  Sooooooo, when you step on one of those hollow areas, the floor makes a very loud creaking noise.  

In pulling out just this one little area, we learned how not to remodel a bathroom floor.  This project is going to take a while to finish, but I will definitely keep y'all up-to-date on what's going on!