From blidberg at ausi.org Tue Mar 31 16:12:37 2015 From: blidberg at ausi.org (Dick Blidberg) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 18:12:37 -0400 Subject: [Board] Update on bar status In-Reply-To: <004e01d06a8b$37666440$a6332cc0$@dangingras.net> References: <004e01d06a8b$37666440$a6332cc0$@dangingras.net> Message-ID: <551B1BD5.7000708@ausi.org> Dan Clearly many years of water. Glad you guys found it. Firmly support getting someone to do this work that is a well experienced pro. Thanks for the effort! Dick On 3/29/2015 9:45 PM, Dan Gingras wrote: > > Just an update on the bar situation. > > Paul Roy and I started the demo last week. We were shocked to see > the amount of rot under the floor, but thought we could patch the > floor together and move on. Unfortunately today, we were joined by > Bill, Paul Goldberg, Greg and Jerry and decided to remove the sections > with rot. That was opening Pandora’s box!! We removed 7 layers > (1.5 inches thick- see photo) of completely soaked material > including a sandwich of plywood, tile, plywood, tile and more plywood > until (luckily!!) we got to the bottom layer, protected by tar paper > and relatively intact, although still water stained. We’re going to > let that dry out and move on from there, this becoming a much larger > project that we anticipated. > > The amount of water in the floor made leaving the current floor in > place just not viable. The water has also migrated into the walls > creating a significant mold problem. > > The plan now is: > > 1-Remediate the mold problem by spraying with a mold inhibitor > > 2-Lay a new3/4 “ pressure treated subfloor behind bar, and remove 2 > feet of carpeting in front of the bar and remove rotted plywood and > replace with 1/2 “ plywood. > > 3-Frame the bar with 2x 10 lumber > > 4-Lay a waterproof decoupling membrane (schluter DITRA) on the floor > > 5-Tile the floor behind the bar and 2 feet in front of the bar. I > suggest we hire someone to do this step. Unfortunately I was hoping > we could patch this together, but it’s just not the right way to do > it, and would lead to significant structural problems in the future. > If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. > > > > Dan > --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 37301 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 27725 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 22088 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 42507 bytes Desc: not available URL: