When we first looked at the house we noticed that the floor in one of the upstairs bedrooms was, shall we say, a little bouncy. I wanted to figure out what was going on, Bill was more prone to let the radiant floor sheathing we were thinking of using "tighten things up." Well, we aren't using that system (too pricey) and we decided to take down the ceiling in the bedroom below so we could insulate between the floors. ¡Voila! the source of the problem was revealed! It just so happens that about 50% of the nails that were supposed to attach the sub-floor to the joists missed their marks! And not only by a hair, there were 4 or 5 bays where the nails were located in the middle of the bay rather than the middle of the joist! Mmmmm - considering the year the house was built we are thinking maybe the builders were smoking a bit too much wacky weed and just didn't notice! While Kate worked on project paperwork Sunday afternoon, Bill removed the nails!
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| The ceiling we are discussing. If you look really close you can see some of what we are talking about. |
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| A section of the top of the floor after Bill pounded up the nails from below with no problem! |
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| Just some of the nails that came out! They are in such good shape - guess that's what happens when they haven't been doing much over the years! |
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