Today we decided to tackle the kitchen floor. Yes, I just cleaned out all under the stove, but it was still better to rip it all out. Problem: The floor under the fridge was a total mess.

First R started ripping out the tile. That came out really easily as the mortar didn't stick to the subfloor at all (hence all the cracks in them). That was the easy part. What we found underneath the tile was subfloor, linoleum, more subfloor, and then the original shiplap. Both subfloors and part of the shiplap under the fridge were rotted out. Not good. So R decided to clean it out as best he could and put in some makeshift subfloor to put the fridge on for now. We'd love to address the whole issue, but just cannot gut the kitchen quite yet. We've got to get the suite cleaned up and ready for rental first. Fortunately, the exterior wall is good shape due to some solid construction long ago. The pass-through wall will have to have some work done on it eventually though as parts of it have rotted out pretty badly. Until we get to the full-blown kitchen renos we will be using the existing old lino that is under the tile and subfloor. That's good enough for now. We can't rip out the lower subfloor yet as that will mean pulling out all the cabinets too.

Pictured here, you can see the diferent levels of flooring. Old lino at the bottom of the picture, then subfloor on the upper right, and then the top layer of (remaining) tile on the top left.


Here you can see shiplap on the top left, then old lino at the bottom, and tile on the top right. The rest of the tile and its subfloor are ripped out shortly after this picture was taken.



And here you can see the ugly mess under the fridge. Lots of dry rot.



This area is just in front of the fridge. Still not in good shape.



Final product at the end of the day:



On a good note, R found a plumbing kit at Home Depot that replaced the parts we needed for the bathroom. So we have a sink again! And it doesn't leak anymore!!

I bleached out the inside of the bathroom cabinet area so we can finally use it to put our bathroom things on for now. It's a huge improvement.

Here are the upper cabinets now.



And here are the cabinets under the sink before the drain pipes were replaced.



Shiny new plumbing!



We did some running around today as well, including two trips to Home Depot. It was time to get a wet/dry vac, and we're already putting it to good use!

And it's hot today. Really hot. It's in the low 30's. The forecast is for low 20's for the next week or so. I sure hope they're right!

Here is R at the end of a hot, yucky demo day.