The Kitchen. Part Two.

The demo continues….

We cleaned up all the NUTS as featured in the last post and kept on ripping out the old and grungy. The old lower cabinets were out and next was the old sub floor with the stick on tile. That is where we found the old original hardwoods and a lovely deteriorating layer of linoleum. Unfortunately they were beyond repair due to previous water damage. What was really interesting, and fun, about the old hardwoods was that they still had the square nail heads that were individually hammered into the subflooring. They were a b**** to get out, and poor Josh was out of commission for a few days after our demo day. I was hauling all of the debris out of the kitchen as he was breaking it all down, so I felt pretty good. 😎

We were hoping the water damage wasn’t too bad underneath the hardwoods but Josh learned the hard way that we were going to need to do some repair there as well.

TA DA! Josh’s leg went straight through the floor! Thankfully he wasn’t hurt!

I continued to clean everything up after we cleared out all of the debris. I sprayed some bleach water mix EVERYWHERE. There was old mold I scrubbed away, and I vacuumed the whole area probably 600 times. The baseboards were beyond saving. The random shelves on the wall to the left in the picture above were removed (not easily) as well as the shelves that were above the washer. This was all part of my kitchen rearrangement. I wanted the fridge to go where the washing machine was, and I wanted an L-shaped kitchen space. I didn’t want any upper cabinets on the walls that didn’t have any already, mainly to keep the space less cluttered looking. I can find storage in other parts of the house for kitchen stuff. I just thought uppers would have been too cramped for the space and placement would have been difficult since I wanted to keep the original cabinets above the sink.

Back to the floors… Everything was cleaned up and ready for repairs. Josh repaired the sub floor with some deck boards that we picked up from the home improvement store and then we secured some plywood that was approved for subflooring.

There she is! A walkable surface! 🤪

I promise I will get into more “tutorial” style posts as this goes on. I’m back tracking from where I started so I don’t have a lot of step-by-step pictures. I’m trying to keep the posts short and easy to read because I hate long drawn out posts myself. Ask me any questions that you may have!