After finding out that the two people who were supposed to help us remove old and install new flooring could no longer help us, we wanted (and needed) to get a head start on our weekend project. We spent the majority of the evening and into the wee morning hours ripping out old hardwood… what we knew was a possibility we didn’t think would be quite as big a problem: we have MOLD. Unfortunately, the mold is rotting the entire subfloor under the exterior wall of the house and exterior door.
We had three options that we could think of:
1. Take out the door, rip out the subfloor, put in new subfloor and new door.
2. Take out the door, rip out the subfloor, put in new subfloor and replace old door.
3. Replace as much of the subfloor as we can without taking out the door and save that project for another (warmer) day.
Since we found the rotten part of the floor at about midnight, we didn’t have a lot of time to figure out what we were going to do today and after some discussion, it was decided that we would go with option #3. One of the biggest factors was that it’s a frigid 13 degrees today in MN! If we had taken out the door, we would have a big gaping hole in the wall for a few hours while we replaced all of the subfloor under the door first and then put the door back in. Not to mention, we would have to go buy a door somewhere and, since we’re going to be living here for the next 10+ years, we don’t want to just throw something in from Home Depot. We are also fairly short on time and need to get this project moving if we’re going to get all the hardwoods in by the time Tony goes back to work Monday!
Don’t worry, I’ll update with pictures soon. 🙂
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