I can fix it later. "they " installed a door with no flashing over the toe board so all the water ran behind it. 8 foot slider being replaced with a 6' french door and two 1 foot side lights. I knew there was some rot on the floor being it was an aluminum slider which sweats terribly in the winter. So I removed the old door and cut out the bad sub floor and wallah sill plate and band board completely rotted away, luckily the floor joists were minimal. Being that the space was between the load bearing jack studs I was able to lift the floor joists by hand and replace the sill. all of the rot new sill plate had to sister the tails to be safe, 2 foot overlap new band board all in a mornings work, I need to retire, oh wait I did, now I work 60 hours a week fixing stuff for others.
Now, don't you feel all warm and fuzzy knowing it's done well and should last? Nice job. Had to do something similar at a friends house before we rebuilt his deck. Was done wrong and water got in and rotted part of the floor, but not the joists. Fun stuff.
IME, sliding glass doors are the worst! Most are built flat so they slide, and have a drain tube to let the water drain out the front. And anywhere that ever has freezing temperatures that little plastic tube freezes cracks and sends water inside!! In fact if you read the literature that comes with even the most expensive sliding glass doors. There is no warranty unless they have a six foot overhang above them. Sorry rant over!
Yes and just an FYI I post these threads for informational/educational purposes not to show off my "amazing" skills.............................
I appreciate your thread as we all will find something similar as we update and upgrade our houses. We are fortunate to be living in a house that we built so at least we know what is behind the drywall.
Sometimes I'm tempted just to tear this place down right to the hole in the ground and start over. Everything is either original and pretty near worn out, patched or cheap hsit. Almost every "little" project finds something totally unexpected. It was built during the early 30ies when no one had any money out of all salvaged stuff and considering that it is actually built well with the material that was available at the time. Weird things, like the subfloors being made of old wooden (supposedly) railroad freight car Z barn doors.
The house my Dad grew up in, the exterior sheeting was 2" thick solid wood door slabs. He said when it the neighborhood was sold to make way for the power plant he remembers them trying to bulldoze it down, they had a hard time pushing it over. This would of been in the 30's so their equipment was not quite what we have today.
I loved my old small house that was built in the late 40's I believe. Solid as a rock. The on I live in now was built in 77 and I could use a dull knife to cut my way in. Its rigged up way more than my old one was too.
Ya quality of construction varies a lot mostly due to contractors or spec/ trac home projects. Been beating on my son about there upcoming project- weather it will do any good I do not know. he asks I answer then his excuses--oh well
chris that and Engineers not knowing how work practices happen. When they started doing two foot on Center 2 x 4 construction up here for the insulation value. The engineers put I steel braces on the corners for rigidity. The Carpenter's, first thing they did was take the Sawzall cut them out to put in the window.. On spec home nobody stopped it.
