The first layer was the glossy, very slippery when wet, tile.
I had fallen twice, and broke a toe nail because the floors were super slick.
It had turned into a major safety hazard since the backdoor was right there,
and in Michigan any time it rained or snowed (which is all the time) the glossy
tiles would get wet.
The gloss tiles were mortared onto several layers of
linoleum. Once the gloss tiles were broken off the ground, which took hours, we
took a break and left the old linoleum flooring for about a week. Since we knew
that once we took out the rest of the flooring we would need to take out the
cabinets. The older layers of floor went underneath the cabinets. Since we were
not ready to say goodbye to our kitchen sink and counter space yet, we figured
one more week would be best.
Once we decided to take out all of the flooring, we took it
down to the sub-floor and could see into the basement. When we took everything
out, flooring and cabinets, my step dad realized that a previous owner cut out
some of the sub-floor and support beams underneath the sink area for some
reason. We needed to correct this. He added 2x4’s in place where the support
beams had previously been cut out. We added ply wood where the subfloor was
missing. In doing this, we had to drill out 1” holes for the plumbing to still
be accessible for the sink.
For all the tile and garbage we couldn’t put most things out
to the curb on garbage day so we bought this big green bag sold at Home Depot
and Lowe’s that are made by Waste Management called Bagster. We fill the bag and schedule a
pick up time online with Waste Management and they come collect the whole bag
from the front yard. It ended up costing like $30 for the bag and then $100 for
them to pick it up, but it was worth the hassle of finding somewhere else to
take it, which was probably going to cost money as well. I would recommend the
“Green bags” to any one working on a project where there are bulky items that
cannot be put out with regular trash. The Bagster @ Lowe's
We took the bottom cabinets we removed to the curb on
garbage day (my city picks up bigger items, as long as there are no drawers or
any some parts attached) because there were many oil stains inside and the
configurations weren’t best for the space. In the corner of the kitchen,
instead of using a lazy Susan or cabinet designed for a corner, there were two
cabinets glued together and there was a ton of wasted storage space.
So we scrapped the lower cabinets but we decided to keep the
upper cabinets for a possible bar in the basement, a future project I am
thinking about starting this summer J.
