The Destruction Begins

So it wasn't but one day after we closed that we started to pick at and explore what we were going to change. We'd been talking about it for weeks and finally getting a key we set about putting some things into motion.

Here's a little detail that bugged us: The back half of the living room floor had a 3" step in it. Didn't know why and it really messed up the flow of the house so one of the first things we did was pull up the click-lock floor and see what was under there - hoping for some wood. Nope. Concrete. Well, it would probably be pretty easy to smash and lift off the actual floor below it. Nope. Turns out this was one of the modifications to the house that was done really, really well.

Mas of BDMack grinds out ladder wire from what turned out to be a very thick and solid pour of concrete. 

After three days with two guys on jackhammers.

What we discovered when the rubble was cleared was that the old floor had sunk inexplicably below the foundation. The actual foundation was also off but the house was basically square so it really didn't make sense. 

The thing to do now was to fix it with a new level pour and to get the floor all at one level so we called in Joe and his sons who filled up the floor and leveled it with the rest of the place. 

The laser line show how off the floor was. But the house is square...

Joe thinks he's leveling a floor but what he's really doing is completing the race track for Lucas and Nadia.