Demo Photos #3 - Week of 16 Dec - Not to believe rot

The entry foyer was in surprisingly good shape; it was made of concrete, so it survived water damage.






Debris, but there's still some hope; the original architecture is in tact and beautiful to my eyes (though I'm suffering remorse at this stage)


Filled this, and smaller dumpster below, to the brim....




Bathroom and kitchen floor rot exposed under many layers of tile and thinset
What's left of the bathroom floor? Really nothing; all the joists were rotted too.


The thickness of the thinset used to "level" the sections of the floor.


This was the amount of thinset to disguise uneven floor in bathroom.
Come on! This whole place would have been so much easier to execute on with leveling first... I wonder how many trucks of thinset were brough in to execute this?




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