Adventures at The Bunny Manse

  Hey look, there's Harris pulling up the living room floor!      We decided to admit that we need a new floor in the living room. We didn't have enough to salvage and patch in the oak from the dining room and make it not look stupid. As Harris pulled it out, it became clear this is a good decision. The space behind him and to the left it totally rotten - oak, pine, and subfloor. Had we patched in, we would have had a horribly unstable floor.        We are trying to re-home the pine and oak to neighbors who need wood for patch work. Harris then has to lay plywood for the subfloor before Genia at Accent can come back and lay a new oak floor that will match the dining room and transition nicely to the entry/hallway.  

The crew has salvaged the pine and oak for replacement throughout the house! And we get to briefly see the original subfloor that was supporting everything. They are going to cover this is floor sheathing and then we'll run the new floor on top of it. Right now we're thinking a red oak, but that might change depending on what we find out in the world. The original subfloor runs diagonal to the room, you can already see the new floor underlayment where there was massive termite damage.

Those damn termites had a field day at our Bunny Manse. They ate through joists, girder, subfloor, pine floor, oak floor, and trim.   Most of this damage took place in the dining and living rooms. Our original plan was to salvage as much as possible of the living room floor to patch the dining room floor and other areas of the house. Instead, because the joist damage was primarily in the dining room, we will be salvaging the dining room floor to patch the living room. We'll also in the proccess get the heart pine to patch the kitchen and our bedroom. Trying to display sangfroid about the situation. I almost hurled when I saw the gaping crawl space in my dining room, but it's what has to be done at this point.

Bug Apocalypse begins today! Custom Termite is there, right now, killing all sorts of things!