Afternoon everyone….
I’m currently on a job that has thrown me many curveballs so far. I knew certain things that I’d probably run into. But no where near what I’ve uncovered.
The picture above is the most current issue that I’ve uncovered. What you see is a complete mess. This is not how the house was built originally. The second owners of this house had this “work” done. I use the word “work”, but this is far from a professional job.
This is a master bathroom. The area you see in the original blueprints had a tub in the place that is open. There wasn’t a toilet there either. Aside from seeing it on the prints, I found the area where the toilet was.
The arrangement that I came into was a neo wall shower in the left corner of the picture, the toilet was to the left, and a bidet was to the left of the shower.
Needless to say there’s no way a permit was submitted for any of this work. The plumbing is not done to code, nor the walls, and not the floor joists.
When I took the tile off the walls, which were normal drywall (which is not code). This is what I found.
The walls were infested completely with black mold. It had spread into the subflooring as well. Needless to say this has been a bear of a job.
After taking the vanity out, when I removed the drywall I discovered that they covered the original HVAC vent with just the drywall. They carved out part of the studding and just put a vent at another part of the wall. Obviously that isn’t code either.
Needless to say I have my work cut out for me……
I hope your day is better then mine.