Moving right along here... We got another multi-parter on our hands.
So there are three rooms on the south side of the house. One tiny one and two normal sized ones. We will be re-organizing these rooms into a different 3 rooms. One master bedroom, one office, and one art room. We're pretty sure the previous owner had cats. We're also pretty sure said kitties liked this part of the house. A tingling in our noses tells us so.
So the floor in these 3 rooms is not the best. We decided it would be our best option to remove the old sub=floor and possibly some drywall to get the cat-pee smell out of there. The fact that the floors aren't in great shape just kind of helps convince us this is the way to go. More work, and more money, but worth it in the end. The story of the house...
So we started with the small room...
We used a stud-finder to find the floor joists, but soon realized looking for the nailheads would work much easier and be quicker. So we circled the nails. And marked out a square to cut out.
We'd never really done anything like this before so we really had no idea where to start...
We chose here:
The magical gateway to CandyLand!!!
So we had a better idea of how thick the subfloor was (3/4") and where the joists ran, so we make a larger cut. 4' x 4'. Then we tried to lift it out. We pried our little hearts out...
Stubborn little bugger!
Turns out the guy built the floor before he built the walls. So the subfloor sat underneath the walls. Which made it impossible to lift this thing out as one sheet. It took us about half an hour of yanking on this thing. Smashing it, bending it up and down. We tried everything, before it finally broke at the wall. We quickly decided we weren't doing that again... It was hot, dusty, and slightly fiberglassy, and spending half an hour per 4' was not getting us very far.
There must be a better way!
So I broke out this little bad boy. Harbor Freight multi-function tool. This thing is a lifesaver! I was able to cut the entire permiter of the room flush to the outer wall. It's like an angle grinder, but it just wiggles back and forth about 1/4" really quickly. Not the speediest saw, but it does a heck of a job!
That's more like it!
It was at this point I came to a startling conclusion... I found the motherload... I was cutting along the perimeter of the room when I caught a slight waft through my respirator... It was a sweet burnt smell. The sweet burnt smell of cat piss. Penetrating deep within my soul... Right there in the middle of the screen. That dirty smudge against the back wall...
Tastes like burning!
Perhaps this will help illustrate my point...
That whole little section of wall was wonderfully saturated with this liquid gold.
Upon this discovery, we decided it had been a long day, so we called it quits for the day. Lots more coming soon... Stay tuned!
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