At the end of March my parents visited for five days to help us work on the house. We got tons of work done while they were here. The first project was to replace the subfloor in the lower level of the house. The original subfloor consisted of 1/2" particle board over 3/4" plywood. From the research I did online I found that particle board is not an acceptable subfloor but that 3/4" plywood is sufficient all by itself. So we tore out the particle board and just to be safe we replaced it with 1/2" plywood. We started tearing it out in the bathroom (and tore out the bathroom wall too) and progressed from there.
We also had to do a little leveling of the main subfloor where the refrigerator sits. Unfortunately you can only do so much with an already built house. At least the fridge won't be leaning noticeably anymore.
We really put that $1 garage sale pry bar to work. I think it more than paid for itself.
The last step in the removal of the subfloor was to cut out a weak piece of the main subfloor in the bathroom to be replaced. The previous tenants apparently weren't very good plumbers so they just didn't bother to fix leaky pipes.
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