The first floor bathroom was very small - 5' x 9'. The door from the kitchen would not open all the way as it hit the bath tub.
Original First Floor Bathroom
Bathrooms
New Improved Wall with a Bump Out
The lathe came down. The insulation in the walls was good and was reused. The bathroom was very small – 5′ X 9′ so we created a small 18″x48″ bump out by adding a new 2×8 joist along side an existing one. We had no siding to add yet.
Rotten all the way through
Rotted deeply into the wall.
Rotten Wood Exposed
When the cedar clapboard was removed from the sagging wall, we found rotted wood from rain water running off the roof and down the siding! The window seemed ready to fall out. The rim joist was rotten as well as the studs in the wall. The entire wall had to come down.
Bathroom Wall Falling Off
By the time we had finalized the purchase, the bathroom wall was literally falling off from water dripping down from too small an overhang!
