The tile was not mounted to an underlay, it is stuck directly on the plywood subfloor. The laundry room is also across a hall which is carpeted so it does not directly contact the tile in the kitchen
That area you see the gas meter will sometime get standing water there if we get a lot of rain. Which I had planned on hauling in some dirt. If the gutters are not cleaned out water will spill out and run off to the ground in this area. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 26, 2017, at 2:48 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Brick is sometimes porous and the house looks to be pretty low to the ground. > I also note lots of leaves. Does the eavestrough fill up with leaves and does > the rainwater then pour over onto the ground? That might be enough to have > caused your rotted sill. > Hard to tell without actually being there but the tile job by the entry door > does not look too bad. You might be able to do something similar. > Doubtful that you can get the tiles off of the laundry room floor intact. > Unless they did a poor job of sticking them down. If they are just on the OSB > underlay and not well stuck in the quickset then it might be done but it > would be a mess. You would probably have to put down new underlay in the > laundry room too and unless you want uneven floors between rooms, then you > would likely have to remove the old floor and replace down to the joists. > More expense which probably would not be worthwhile. > > RB > > >> On 26/01/2017 2:06 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >> The exterior is full brick. I do not see any evidence of water staining the >> Sheetrock. There are several tiles in the laundry room that are cracked. I >> wonder what the chances are or being able to remove that tile without >> breaking them. I could then use the tile from the laundry room to replace >> tiles in the kitchen area. Then put something else in the laundry room. To >> open up the floor in the kitchen area I would probably have to take up 2-3 >> rows of tile. >> >> I just went by the house and took some pics for reference. First photo is >> the area in question outside the house followed by same area inside the >> house. I also took a long shot showing how it blends into the formal dining, >> then a shot of how we did the tile on the adjoining entry area >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
