Hick has been working on the floor of Cheap House. He's been doing it without the help of Old Buddy, who was at the ER on Monday, getting checked out. Nothing was found. He goes there pretty regularly. Maybe he's back working with Hick now. I think he helped at the apartments on Wednesday.
Anyhoo... Hick is shoring up a part of the floor outside the bathroom. It had water damage, and was sagging. Might have been from the roof leak. Hick cut out the damaged part to see what was going on. This is what he found, and sent me a text.
"Look what I found under the floor."
"That is weird."
"I'm guessing that was the original floor."
"Strange to leave a rug when putting a new floor down."
"It's actually linoleum but looks like a rug."
"The part cut out probably have to cut a little more to get it level."
I don't understand what went on here originally. Was there a step down to that area? Why was a new floor put over part of the other floor? Did it settle THAT MUCH to justify a patch over it several inches higher? Hick said there was no step. Maybe somebody just did a higher floor over a whole room. Or maybe the entire house has this built-up floor, but nothing else is damaged and sagging.
Looks like Hick put in some new floor joists. I think he just laid that top section on to check how level it was. The plan is to get the floor with no sagging, then put down the subfloor of plywood. No laminate flooring. That will be something the buying flipper can decide on.
Anyhoo... Hick has a portion of unlevel floor to fix in the kitchen, under where the cabinets used to be. The he might paint the new trim board around the new roof. After that, he says we'll put Cheap House on the market, and he'll start working on Lap House.
That is a weird set up and now I want to know why that piece is lower and was it once a whole separate room form the rest of the higher flooring? Something we may never know. The pattern does look like a rug.
ReplyDeleteMy best guess is that the whole house got a "new" floor many years ago, because the old floor was sagging or worn out. Then this portion became damaged, which allowed Hick to find the original floor.
DeleteThanks to your earlier reminder about stamps going up, I ordered some online. Probably a lifetime supply. I don't mail much anymore. (And I'm out of my 60's, not yet halfway into my 70's, so lifetime is all in how you look at your expectancy, I guess.) I got a sheet of Bison, a sheet of the Spirit of Route 66, I got some 250-year celebration Flag stamps and some snowflakes for Christmas. I still have some Halloween stamps. My dad is gone now, but he used to buy new stamps and send cards or letters etc. It was always fun to see what the stamp would be each time. As much fun as reading the letter or card inside. Thanks for that reminder. I should be set for some time to come. As for the poop tangible icon...I would have asked. I mean a $#1+ show is a $#1+ show, no matter how you look at it, even in the Post Office. I'm sure the inside of ours have seen many, knowing what a B1+ (# the manager is here. Ranee
ReplyDeleteI tried to get more of the Route 66 stamps, but they were out! So I settled for the light blue World Peace (I can't remember exactly what they say, but they have what looks like an origami dove). I also got a bunch of the flag stamps. I could not bring myself to get Mr. Rogers. He looked too creepy with a puppet guy beside him.
DeleteHeh, heh! What if somebody came in while I was asking the clerk why she had poop on the counter?