Out with the rotten, in with the new!

So a couple of months ago I wrote about how Andrew made a lovely discovery underneath the ocean blue carpet in our kitchen. We found green carpet, then the black padding/glue stuff (yes, that is the technical term...) and then sticky tile, also a technical term.

Anywho, after demolition day we were left with the black padding. We bought heavy-duty scrapers to remove it to prep the floor for our new flooring. After a couple of days spent scraping and peeling, we determined it would be better to just remove the subfloor. If we didn't have such a hard time removing the padding, we probably would have been able to put new flooring over the tile.

Andrew had also discovered an old water leak near the sink plumbing, so he had already cut out the two layers of subfloor there. We removed the top layer from the rest of the kitchen, so we just had to place one layer of plywood back down.

Thanks to our fabulous neighbor Vinnie and his staple gun, we laid all but two odd-shaped pieces last night. I would also like to add that last night's work included one of my favorite construction activities: snapping a chalk line. It's true, I am a fabulous chalk-line-snapper. I also got to use the staple gun and hole saw :)

two layers of water-damaged subfloor removed

first layer put back in!

we removed some old, nasty, maybe mold-infested insulation while waiting for Vinnie and his gun...makes you wanna hire us, doesn't it?

Vinnie, the professional, cutting out some of our hardwood floor 

making it flush...

new top layer of subfloor!

what will be the new floor--dura ceramic tile...sort of like fake tile. it's warmer, saving us money on radiant heating

Stay tuned...I did some gardening on Wednesday, just me and Sherpa!