Bathroom wall

As part of the bathroom remodel I replaced the wall between the bathroom and the kitchen.  This wall formerly had a double oven in it that stuck out into the kitchen.  The back of the oven stuck into the bathroom closet space.  Because I replaced the tub with a shower, the closet was removed.  The closet and oven space were changed into a pantry for the kitchen.

Here is the old layout.  Note: the old shower was not in the bathroom but was accessed from the mud room.

So a new bathroom wall was needed for the shower wall and to convert the closet/oven area into a pantry as the pantry would be part of the kitchen.


My uncles had framed the new bathroom wall before we discovered the bad floor. So we had to cut out the floor beneath the new wall.   To make our job harder we had cut out the old bathroom/oven wall after the new wall was framed and before the bad floor was discovered. When we went about to removing the bad floor we discovered the old bathroom/oven wall had been a supporting wall and now the new wall was a supporting wall.  That made cutting the floor out from under the new wall a problem.

As we cut the old floor out we braced the new wall to hold it up.  Still it was difficult to slide the new floor boards under the wall.  Then we discovered the new wall needed to be raised a little - not just to slide the new floor boards under it - but because the ceiling had sagged a bit in the transition of the old wall to new wall as a supporting wall.

So we had to carefully jack up the ceiling a little bit to straighten everything out.  Easier said than done.  But late in the evening we finally got the new wall raised up a bit and the new floor under the wall.