Designing Kitchens and Bathrooms - Replacing subfloor and joists too
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Kadril
08-31-04, 06:24 PM
So, my husband and I just bought a house. What we didn't realize when we did this was that the shower in the master bath had been leaking for quite some time. We finally figured this out with a recent journey through the crawl space.
The subfloor is obviously going to have to be replaced, and the joists under the shower area are also black and deteriorated looking. How do you replace or reinforce these?
The subfloor is obviously going to have to be replaced, and the joists under the shower area are also black and deteriorated looking. How do you replace or reinforce these?
slumlordfrank
08-31-04, 06:43 PM
Been down that road myself. Do you have another shower to use while this one is "down", and are you guys pretty handy? It's really not overly difficult there are situations where you can bring the house down on your head but if you stop, think and ask questions it's doable.
Once you get the shower out you'll be able to see better how much has to come out and can proceed accordingly. On the last one I did I had double 2X12, with a 1X6 sub-floor laid diagonally over that, with the (when I was done) concrete backerboard over that. Your local building code may specify how long or short a solid board you can use for joists, in my case the mold was surface only. I sprayed with bleach, let dry, painted with oil base primer. Then I "sistered" a new 2X12 onto it, which I bolted to the old one, not just nailed. I also did the same thing to the next joist over but only because I would've had to jack up or remove a wall to have gotten the new subfloor onto that joist.
BTW, I did this in California where they actually do have building codes and the local inspector, and the termite inspector when I sold the house later both gave it "thumbs up".
Frank
Once you get the shower out you'll be able to see better how much has to come out and can proceed accordingly. On the last one I did I had double 2X12, with a 1X6 sub-floor laid diagonally over that, with the (when I was done) concrete backerboard over that. Your local building code may specify how long or short a solid board you can use for joists, in my case the mold was surface only. I sprayed with bleach, let dry, painted with oil base primer. Then I "sistered" a new 2X12 onto it, which I bolted to the old one, not just nailed. I also did the same thing to the next joist over but only because I would've had to jack up or remove a wall to have gotten the new subfloor onto that joist.
BTW, I did this in California where they actually do have building codes and the local inspector, and the termite inspector when I sold the house later both gave it "thumbs up".
Frank
Kadril
09-01-04, 02:14 PM
Luckily there's another full bath in the house and no kids, so we can take this one out of commission for a while. I like to think we're handy, but I've also never tried remodeling a bathroom before. I think we may fall back to using a contractor on the most important work and/or the plumbing, if we don't feel comfortable doing it ourselves. But I can certainly rip out old tile on my own. :D
Thankfully the crawl space under this house is large, so there's plenty of room to work on the joists without crawling on hands and knees.
Thanks for the help! I'll go look for those building codes....
Thankfully the crawl space under this house is large, so there's plenty of room to work on the joists without crawling on hands and knees.
Thanks for the help! I'll go look for those building codes....