Yesterday's goals were as follows: demo the kitchen, pull up half of the original pine floors, reinforce and support the floor joists in that part of the kitchen and lay subfloor. We were able to get all of that accomplished!!! Happy day!! Thank you to Dustin Musick and Lucas Desrochers for all your help with #demoday!
So here are the pictures...
First, kitchen demo.
Blaze is so helpful. He's our jumper and he jumped up there with Dustin.
The kitchen and cabinets and stove used to be on this wall.
On top of this old subloor that was glued down to the pine floors was super ugly tiles.
Then we moved the refrigerator to the other side of the room.
Second major project was pulling up the floors in half of the kitchen. The boys worked really hard on this part. And we were able to save over 100 square feet to use for patch work in the rest of the house! YAY!
After this, the guys (Dustin and Lucas) had to leave. We are SO SO THANKFUL for their help.
After lunch and a trip to Lowe's, Shae and I began to work on reinforcing and supporting the floor joists.
For those of you that don't understand (like me before yesterday), the big beam is a sill beam and the horizontal ones are floor joists. We took those metal brackets (joists hangers) and screwed them in to the sill beams at all the joints. Our joists are notched into our sill beam so this step made the joists already stronger before we even added the additional support underneath.
We then added a treated 4x4 underneath the joists using concrete blocking and shims. After that we used four more joist hangers to attach the support beam to the joists. We probably over-engineered all of this but now our floors don't bounce like they did before.
Then we got a visit from the neighbors. We love our neighbors!!!
Bailee thought it was so cool to be standing on "the earth" in the house.
And Brenden's face is just awesome!! We have THE BEST NEIGHBORS in town. Such a blessing!!
Our last major project for the evening was laying subfloor. We made custom cuts to the pieces so that we could stagger the pieces on the floor. We were almost done making all the cuts, when it started to sprinkle. So that put everything into super high speed to get the plywood inside the house. And by the time we had gotten the last of it in the house, a torrential downpour began. We had NO IDEA it was supposed to rain. So that was fun... NOT!
And the last step of the evening... nail in the subfloor.
And all the tools... oh the tools!
We accomplished a ton of work yesterday. And I am so excited to continue working on our kitchen projects. And what I LOVED the most yesterday... working side by side and shoulder to shoulder with my husband. I am so glad that God led us to this great adventure together.
We are tired and worn out and sore. But we are so happy with what we accomplished yesterday.
