…ok it was my fault. I asked Kevin if we could pull up the piece of plywood that he had put over the hole in the floor in what was then the dining room until we completely refinished the floors. We thought that the job of replacing the beams under the floor was going to be a huge job, and to be honest there were other things that were a higher priority like a usable kitchen and bathroom.
I wanted him to pull up the piece of plywood as there was an odor in the room that I could not get rid off and I wondered if something had crawled up there somehow and died.
So, Kevin pulled up the piece of plywood…we looked in the hole and couldn’t see anything. I then asked Kevin to open the window to allow the area to get some fresh air….that apparently is where I went wrong. He stood on the old sub floor which was not up to extra strain…
His leg went through the floor and he ended up standing on the ground under the house…he was fine but we thought we would try to replicate an image from the movie with Tom Hanks in it called “The Money Pit”. This is Kevin doing his best impersonation of Tom Hanks…
This is the whole that he left in the floor when he went through…
and finally we decided that we needed to fix the problematic beams…if you remember from previous posts this was the area where the roof had a hole in and the ceiling was on the floor.
So we have put down another nice piece of plywood…floor sanding and putting down new hardwood here is scheduled for spring :)…ironically fixing the beams only took a days worth of work which was way way less than what we imagined!
