Mark Bryden (he/him)

I demanded them, actually.

Honestly the bathroom had gotten so bad that we weren’t using it anymore.I’ll save those pictures for the full before and after post at the end of this project!

It was a wheelchair accessible bathroom, so there wasn’t much of a difference in slope between the shower and the regular floor.Water had been splashing there for the last 30 years and we knew there was mold under there somewhere.. Well, as it always goes with these things, Chris pulled the flooring back and found that it was even worse than he’d thought.Isn’t that always the story?

We knew at that point that we couldn’t just do a bit of demo work right now and then more later, we just needed to get all of that mold out NOW!.I honestly wasn’t really fond of Chris being in there breathing all of that in, so we decided to call in a contractor, just to help us get the place safe and get all the nasty stuff out so we could have a blank slate.

About 2 days later, here’s how things looked.. A few of the floor joists actually needed to be replaced because they were so bad.

Everything else was washed with an industrial strength mold-remover.Now that’s what I call a productive morning!.

First, here’s how Chris usually works.This is him finishing up the beadboard ceiling in there:.

Everything piece had to fit just right.. And it doesn’t matter if it takes 6 months to complete one ceiling..Normally, I don’t really mind much because the end result is amazing.. We don’t use this room for anything right now anyway, so it’s just fine to take our time..