Hooray dryrot in my headers! Wait no powder post beetle!
I’m way behind on updating the progress of my various projects. We decided to tear into the mainfloor bathroom and fix some nagging issues. These issues being:
1) The toilet sits on some sort of box
2) The Toilet sits way over the legal requirement distance from the wall
3) It is butt ugly
4) vinyl floor tiling
5) No class (see #3)
So we tore the platform out that the toilet was sitting on. Called our journeyman plumbing neighbor over to take a look at why they would have raised the toilet on a box he said “He probably wanted to feel like he was on a throne or the plumber and the contractor had a fight”. Basically he could see no good reason for raising the toilet onto a platform. So we broke out the floor and relocated the toilet (12″ center from wall, as opposed to I think the 18″ center it was sitting).
Anyways, I started in on the eletrical and in a moment of frustration just started beating the drywall out of the back wall when I noticed a flaky dryrotted header. So yeah. Detour. This was suppose to be a quick 2 weekend project and is now turning into something more.
UPDATE: It is not dryrot. It is damage from a powder post beetle. Man the thing just turned the whole bad boy to dust. We’ll be cutting out the top piece and replacing it and then spraying the whole thing down with Timbor.
[...] the room up for outlets, can lights, new fan, etc. While I had the drywall off, I noticed a lot of decay in the headers which ended up being a powder post beetle. After replacing the wood and spraying down for the [...]
The Nerd Lifestyle » Downstairs Bathroom Remodel
13 May 08 at 5:51 pm
I’d be very concerned that your top plate is spliced over a stud bay rather than on top of a stud, and right underneath a ceiling joist no less.
Did you by chance add a stud under that joist before you closed it up?
Owen Sechrist
27 Oct 08 at 6:21 pm