Day 3 of renovations is replacing the green tongue chipboard in the kitchen, with extra waterproofing agent painted on the underneath, and laid on treated pine. We found there was concrete laid around the edges of the room, to prevent rodents and water penetrating under the house. We still will need to add extra drainage on the outside of the house to stop the "one in a hundred year" rains - which seems to happen more often than not.
The boards were so rotten, they crumbled underfoot.
Notice the unpainted patches where the oven and rangehood had been. We found rats had chewed almost to the bare wires, and the rangehood was only attached with 2 x 2" nails, and maybe some glue!!
Note the perimeter of concrete around John's work area.
Why didn't they just finish the whole floor with concrete ??
The enjoyable, and quickest part of the job!
i hope joys and my room has no rats lol
ReplyDeleteHave you found any treasures under the floorboards? Long lost wealth? Secret notes from years ago? Tiny corpses?
ReplyDeleteWe found 2 tiny medical vial bottles, and 1/2 bottle, which would be the size of a stubbie. Haven't identified it yet. Other than that, just good clean dirt.
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