Houston, We Have More Problems...

It isn't my intention to turn this into a home improvement weblog, but my house has been preoccupying my mind as of late.

Last week, I posted some pictures of our kitchen after a pipe burst. Our intention was to rip the ceiling down, put a new one up, repaint, and then everything would be back to normal. Well, of course, things never go that easy...


The above picture is of the floor joists in the kitchen ceiling. We had our first look at them ever after the ceiling was pulled down (having only owned this home for 2 years). These joists support the 2nd floor bathroom, which has a really huge bathtub in it.

The finishing work on our house was beautiful, which was one of the reasons that we bought it. And since then, we have found that a ton of the underlying work was done in a really half-assed manner (see above picture).

The thing that is wrong with the above picture is that several of the joists have been cut almost all of the way through so that pipes could be run. Those joists are now sagging from the weight of the bathroom above. Obviously this has to be fixed first.

So, like every other home project known to man, it is expanding far beyond the original scope, and doesn't seem like it will ever end...

[More entries on this subject: Feb 18, Feb 19, Mar 6, March 12.]