{"id":41305,"date":"2021-06-22T08:57:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T13:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=41305"},"modified":"2021-06-22T08:57:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T13:57:40","slug":"first-day-of-renovation-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/first-day-of-renovation-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day of Renovation SURPRISE"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Post 108 of 263. Thanks again to those who participated in the Fundrazr. As I mentioned in the post announcing Bast’s passing from COVID<\/a>, I thank everyone for your generous donations to the original Fundrazr campaign, which resulted in sponsored 263 posts. I will continue to honour the commitment to write those 263 posts, but I will not commit to more. The link above is to a new campaign to help Bast’s family.)<\/p>\n

All renovation projects come with surprises, but the surprise I got yesterday was definitely not one my contractor expected, given the age of the house — I’ve got a nearly 2,500-square-foot house without a proper subfloor. The flooring replacing project should have been quick — pull up old tile, clean and level out the subfloor, apply “pegazulejos” (literally tile glue), and add new tile and grout. Instead, the subfloor came up with the tile to reveal bare sand underneath. This was apparently an older building method that doesn’t use concrete for the subfloor. So now, we have to pour a whole new subfloor before we can replace the flooring. Am I glad I’ve got experts working on this and did not attempt a DIY! My contractor says that we should go over top of the existing tile for the rest of the house, which sounds like both a great and terrible idea.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n