Writing all this makes me realize how much I love home renovation and home renovation stories and DIY jobs. Which is the reason why I thought it’d be fun to write about this.
The fact is that every do-it-yourself job is different because every house has its own personality and every house is different.
There is nothing so much fun as
Another friend of mine, not in Oregon, but up there in Washington State, had some similar problems with the basement of an older home.
This one was prone to subterranean water infiltration generally due to infrequent weather patterns.
In my last post I told you about my pool table buddy’s basement being flooded.
It turns out he learned that in the northwest where he was the hillside neighborhood flooding had occurred multiple times. It rains like crazy where he is in Oregon.
Here’s a few thoughts on some experiences my friend had with basements and water infiltration.
When he moved into a new house, the biggest issue was how to get the pool table transported. It was his baby. He loves that pool table.
Water is essential for life, but it can also cause damage.
That’s where water-proofing comes in.
I wanted to talk in this post about waterproofing in a bathroom restoration project and tell you, by way of example about a bath rehab my buddy did awhile ago.
This is where it gets interesting.
Doing a new floor installation in a bathroom over a plywood sub floor can produce a really beautiful project., but there are details that have to be attended to if you want the result to come out perfect.
In the previous posts we were looking at two different bathrooms to be renovated, one in a basement, the other on a floor above.
The subfloor structure was what I was attending to. You will have different problems and employ different situations with a slab on grade vs. a standard plywood subfloor.
A bathroom on the main floor or upstairs bath generally will have a plywood sub floor so for the sake of this discussion let’s just assume that this is the case.
In earlier posts we discussed problems and surprises that may be encountered in renovations of older homes.
Bathrooms are frequently where such problems arise for a couple of reasons.
This is a blog about home renovation and remodeling specifically targeted at older homes that have been around a few decades and also home additions, some of which may be equally of close to the same age.