This house nearly didn't make our short list of places to view when we were looking to buy a few years ago. Why? Pics online showed a very outdated kitchen with a huge blue peninsula counter in the middle of the room. I didn't even want to look at this place after seeing online pics of the kitchen, but of course it ended up on the short list, earned a second visit, and then we bought it.
We named the peninsula counter Florida.
We named the peninsula counter Florida.
A few weeks ago, we removed Florida.
And then we started to remove the tile.
It was a lot of hard work. We (Nate mostly) used a special chisel attachment for the rotary hammer to break up the tiles. I scooped up the broken tile with a shovel and hauled it outside. We filled several small metal trash cans.
The next weekend, we removed the plywood floor and found hardwood underneath. It was never our plan to have a hardwood floor in the kitchen--and it's a good thing, too, because there's an area of visible water damage beneath the dishwasher, which had leaked at one time. You can also see where the old pantry used to be. Fascinating! I knew from looking at the permits on file at Village Hall for our house that the kitchen had been remodeled in 1989 and that a wall had been removed, but it was hard to tell from the written description what exactly had happened. I now know!
We had so much debris from this floor destruction that we used a Bagster rather than taking it to the dump ourselves in our city-folk cars (no truck!). I didn't think it would happen with a room of this size, but we filled the Bagster. It was picked up and hauled away within three days.
And then we started to remove the tile.
It was a lot of hard work. We (Nate mostly) used a special chisel attachment for the rotary hammer to break up the tiles. I scooped up the broken tile with a shovel and hauled it outside. We filled several small metal trash cans.
The next weekend, we removed the plywood floor and found hardwood underneath. It was never our plan to have a hardwood floor in the kitchen--and it's a good thing, too, because there's an area of visible water damage beneath the dishwasher, which had leaked at one time. You can also see where the old pantry used to be. Fascinating! I knew from looking at the permits on file at Village Hall for our house that the kitchen had been remodeled in 1989 and that a wall had been removed, but it was hard to tell from the written description what exactly had happened. I now know!
We had so much debris from this floor destruction that we used a Bagster rather than taking it to the dump ourselves in our city-folk cars (no truck!). I didn't think it would happen with a room of this size, but we filled the Bagster. It was picked up and hauled away within three days.
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| We eventually found the hardwood floor after removing the tile, plywood, tar paper and felt paper! (Bagster content!) |
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