New Floors - Day 6 - Part 2

Okay, so that last post was about conversations and the icky parts of doing business.  But now let's get to the part where we end up fixing some things ourselves.

The sort of accent wall in our stairwell had horrible white tile on it that we ripped out.  What we found underneath was a piece of drywall.  The demo guys didn't pull this out.  The logic was "since no one is going to walk on it, it doesn't really matter if it is plywood or not."  We've been getting stuff like that a lot with these guys.  The "don't worry about it, I'm a professional," answer.  But we do worry.  And we are paying a lot.  And we are smart.  And SPF continued to think this wasn't the best solution to this area.

When Chris the handyman was here fixing the first of what I'm sure will be many projects for us (we have already slated him to replace the front door once it goes through the HOA process) SPF asked him if that was okay.

Chris looked sideways at him and said, "What are they going to glue the wood to?  Drywall paper?"

Huh.  Yeah, that doesn't sound good.  Actually, that sounds bad.  Like, the cat will jump up on it and it will come crashing down ruining our stairs, the stair nosing, maybe the cat . . . so we ripped it out.

Okay, so this is the wall with the old piece of drywall still mostly intact.

When SPF pulled the drywall off, unfortunately the new apron came off as well.  It was glued to the corner bead of the drywall, which really did need to come out, so we will have to put it back later.  I think it's okay, though, because it will be easier to fix the other part without have to work around the apron.  After he ripped it out, SPF measured and cut new plywood strips (that Chris just happened to have in his truck, so he gave it to us) and then put down liquid nails to secure it in place.

In went the new plywood.  Because he already had out the saw, extra plywood, and liquid nails, SPF proceeded to install plywood in all of the places that had been left untouched by the first day crew.  We have exceptional confidence in those areas now.  It isn't that we don't have some confidence in the other areas, but the attitude of "eh, it's good enough" isn't really how we work.  And we would rather that the people we work with don't have that attitude either.