demolition snowballs

Once we pulled the carpet out of the bunk room and washed down the walls, we moved on to the back hall and the shower/bathroom areas. Imagine my surprise when I pulled up the carpet to find cardboard being used as subfloor! But it's o.k. everyone. It was held in place with duct tape. That makes everything alright. *boggle* Truthfully, I wasn't that surprised. This is the Hodge Podge Lodge after all. I laughed about it for a second, shook my head in disbelief, then debated the merits of checking what's under the cardboard.

Realizing I couldn't, in good conscience, leave the cardboard where it lay (tempting though it may be), I peeled back the duct tape and found....

Seriously? O....K..... Strips of scrap subflooring with 1/4" gaps between 'em. If you look closely, it would appear that there used to be a sink in this location! You can just make out the two small holes for the hot/cold water, and the larger hole for the drain pipe. Looking beyond that you see, well, the dirt under the cottage, because the holes go clean through.  

adds "1/4 particle board" to the shopping list.

Moving on to the scuzzy shower area, we peeled back more of the green carpet and found...

YEEEAGGGHHH!! That is NOT sanitary! This, ladies and germs, is why you don't put carpet in a bathroom. Probably just as well I intended to rebuild the shower. It's looking as though it was going to need to be ripped out anyway so new subfloor could be put down. 

And look, a toilet used to be here! That just makes me wonder what's under the cottage in that particular spot. Ew.

I wonder if the bathroom is any better?

Too much to hope for. *sigh*

adds "lots of particle board" to the shopping list

Now that the flooring in those two rooms needs to be ripped out, I'm starting to think a total bathroom overhaul might be in order. If we can find cabinets/counter/sink on the cheap at the Cobourg Re-store then it might be worth it just to junk everything that's there and start afresh.

Of course, that makes me contemplate moving the sheeter so you're not staring at it when you look into the loo...I wonder how much work that would be? Probably a lot. Would need to move the holding tank, move the vent stack.... *ponder ponder*

Ooooo.. or maybe if I just shifted the doorways closer to the back of the cottage, I could put a linen closet in the nook created by moving the doors...of course, that would involve re-routing the electrical for the small panel in the wall there...

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Funny how these things snowball, no? One day you're ripping out carpet, the next you're remodeling the entire back corner of the cottage.