I was SO totally wrong.
I woke up this morning to find my kitchen floor sunk - NOTICABLY sunk.
WHERE!?
The floor area under the cabinets/stove - the wall that neighbors the bathroom.
Well!!
The bathroom had to be FIXED, of course. . . and I'm still working on it - the joist under the bathtub head was cut through, neighboring joists were rotted - the rot also effected that wall's sole plate. See here: http://s59.photobucket.com/albums/g299/JulieBiv2022/?action=view¤t=Floorrotclose.jpg&newest=1
Where the rot ate away at the floor it, also, goes way under the kitchen. Now, since that area is under the cabinets I hoped it would hang on for a little while longer.
Now- I DID sister the joists under this area, btw - just like I did in the bathroom. But the subfloor (what's left of it) is still there and not fixed.
NOOOOOOOOOO!!
That area of subfloor finally FAILED - sagging and bringing the cabinets down with it!
So - my ONLY thought, without ripping out the damn cabinets (in the future I will be redoing the kitchen - I really hoped to do that this year, actually) - is to install a series of 2x4's (or sheets of thick plywood) flush under the failed floor area - jack the floor up using the new, temporary floor for solidity - and then run a ladder of joists between the sistered joists - leaving the ply/2x4's in place.
I don't know what else to do, really. . . until I can rip the kitchen out and fix it 100% this will likely do pretty good.
I woke up this morning to find my kitchen floor sunk - NOTICABLY sunk.
WHERE!?
The floor area under the cabinets/stove - the wall that neighbors the bathroom.
Well!!
The bathroom had to be FIXED, of course. . . and I'm still working on it - the joist under the bathtub head was cut through, neighboring joists were rotted - the rot also effected that wall's sole plate. See here: http://s59.photobucket.com/albums/g299/JulieBiv2022/?action=view¤t=Floorrotclose.jpg&newest=1
Where the rot ate away at the floor it, also, goes way under the kitchen. Now, since that area is under the cabinets I hoped it would hang on for a little while longer.
Now- I DID sister the joists under this area, btw - just like I did in the bathroom. But the subfloor (what's left of it) is still there and not fixed.
NOOOOOOOOOO!!
That area of subfloor finally FAILED - sagging and bringing the cabinets down with it!
So - my ONLY thought, without ripping out the damn cabinets (in the future I will be redoing the kitchen - I really hoped to do that this year, actually) - is to install a series of 2x4's (or sheets of thick plywood) flush under the failed floor area - jack the floor up using the new, temporary floor for solidity - and then run a ladder of joists between the sistered joists - leaving the ply/2x4's in place.
I don't know what else to do, really. . . until I can rip the kitchen out and fix it 100% this will likely do pretty good.