The Subfloor was bad

It all started with some weak hardwood behind the vent.

The small spot of weak hardwood turned out to be an entire room and hall way of bad sub floor.

I was hopping for a splice job. No such luck

There was more bad than good, so I decided to replace it all.

The insulation was bad and the floor joists that the original owner had fixed before I would purchase the home were improperly installed.

Whats really bad is the fact that I had two inspections before I purchased the house.

Just another view of the hall way.

After taking out the rotted sub floor, I fixed the joists as best I could and installed new insulation.

Take a look at the old rotten sub floor and jack up old insulation.

The crawl space was a mess.

The new insulation

The beginning of the new sub floor insulation.

The fully installed living room sub floor.

The fully installed hall way sub floor.

We sealed the cracks and sanded were it was needed before we attempted to install the cheapest laminate hardwood known to man. lol

There it is the living room all done. Not super hard to install but the job was made harder by us having purchased cheap flooring. I made it work, so its all good.

The hall way all done. I worked on my normal job during the days and on the floor during the nights. I had no Christmas. It took 7 days, it could have been done in 3 but I had to get rest so I could go to my job. I'm not saying it was fun, but I did learn a lot.

Moving outlets & nedia wires

Originally I used a media strip to get power to my wall mounted TV. Just a heads up, don't ever use the sticky tape backing on the media strip. The sticky strip backing will take the paint and a few layers of sheet rock off the wall when if you remove it.

I took down the flat screen and pealed away the media strip. The media strips sticky backing ripped the paint and a few layers of the sheet rock, so I had to putty and sand along with tapping the bottom outlet and running a second outlet up top (look ma no visible wires). And yes I know I should have cut the wall and hid the 2x4's I'm using for my mount but that's a project for another day. You can't even see my quick fix for mounting in between studs.

I put the TV back up and put the outlet covers on. Now all I have to do is paint next weekend.

This is the before pic. Ugly power and cable lines running the wall.

The girls room needed the cable outlet moved as well as the power outlet. So I had to cut the wall and move the cable over and then move the cable and power up the wall to new outlets.

Just a pic of the cable line being moved over.

The outlets for power and cable are now up and out of the way.

I had to putty and sand the cut I made. While I was at it I puttied all the little thumb tack holes (holes from pics and posters) the girls have all over their room.

I put the TV back on the stand and connected the power and cable, then I added a large non-sticky media strip to hide the wires from the DVD player and Nintendo Wii. I'll be painting next weekend.

This is the before pic. Ugly and unsafe power and cable lines running the wall.

I moved the cable outlet up and just capped the box until I put a splitter on the line and make the cable accessible from the bottom and top cable outlet. I also tapped the power outlet and moved it up to the TV.

The cable and power outlets up safe and out of view.

There you have it clean looking and safe. I have some putty work, sanding and then painting to do on the old wire holder holes but I'll do that the same day as I paint (no need for the daycare room to look bad until next weekend).

The before pic. I had media strips hiding the wires. I installed the media strips using the sticky backs on them. The same sticky backs that destroy the damn paint and sheet rock when you remove them.

I moved the power outlet up and I put in a media wire box and put all the X-Box360, Dish Network HDbox, & DVD player wires behind the wall.

I left the media strip that brings the cable line from one side of the room to the other side of the room (I'm lazy, I'm not dropping a new line or cutting & drilling all around the boys room). I tapped the outlet and put a power outlet up top and I cut and put in a dummy box and fished the media wires through the wall. I also pulled the two media strips that were hiding the media wires previously and puttied and sanded the mess the media strips sticky backs made. I'll be painting next weekend.

All done the wall is clean looking (even if the room and its inhabitants are not lol). All I need to do is spot paint next weekend and that will be a wrap.