Welcome to our first floor bathroom, aka the "Prison bathroom". After coming home from a kayaking trip and having the floor sink in, we decided it was time to do some digging and fixing.
Even though the floor was clean, it has some very bad staining on the tileThis part went very fast! Cardboard laid down to stop the debris going into the drainThose tiles are sharp!Removing the mortar, metal mesh, and tar paper was much more time consumingCleaned up a bitThis is the first of THREE loads that went to the dump. A total of about 1,500lbs(!) was removed
After delaying for as long as I could, it was time to tear into the floor
Tar paper - wasn't very waterproof!The more I dug in, the more soft, rotten wood came outTrying to get down to decent wood
At this point, I discovered that the floor joist under the worst part was halfway rotten through. It needed to be replace, which means taking a trip into the very cramped crawl space to replace it.
The next few steps took far too long, and I seem to have forgotten to take pictures of most of it... Tiles on the floor were added and grouted, the gaps in the corners were filled and sanded. Walls and ceiling was primed, and then painted. Caulk was also applied everywhere, including copious amounts on my hands...
All done!
Finished shot
I'm not an expert, this isn't instruction. Don't do what I do. kthx