O.M.F.G. (House related)

[mrs.jacinthe]

So ... we're getting new carpet for the family room.  We wanted to do painted floors, but it just isn't going to happen this year and I can't keep that green disaster any longer. 

We are moving stuff away from the walls so I can paint before the new carpet goes in on Thursday, and R found a "soft spot" along one of the walls that was shaped suspiciously like a vent register.  So he was like, oops, must have carpeted over a floor vent.  He got out his knife and cut up the carpet and we found ... 



A portal to hell.  Or homeowners' hell, anyhow.  

Here's a closer photo:



I don't know if you can tell, but that's a hole THROUGH THE FLOOR OF OUR HOUSE OPEN ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE CRAWL SPACE.  They took the register out and just CARPETED OVER THE HOLE.  



OMFG.  Now we're all ... well, how do we patch that so that when they carpet on Thursday, we're no longer able to see dirt?
Also, they spent a great deal of time telling us that that room was always cold in the winter, so that's why they installed the gas stove in the corner.  YOU DUMBASS.  THE ROOM IS COLD BECAUSE IT IS LITERALLY OPEN TO OUTSIDE AIR.

[RamblingRose]

Oh dear lord.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Nov 12, 2016 13:58:24 GMT -5 @juno said:

That's special. Is the rest of the floor insulated? Can you get down there?

Not insulated anywhere from underneath, that we can tell.  We can get down there (there's room to stand up in spots, actually), and that's what R will have to do, I think.  But still.  What a piece of work this house is.

[dottyblue]

😮😮😮 oh. My. Goodness.

That's not a good kind of surprise!

[simpsongal]

WOW.

[bunnymendelbaum]

That is ridiculous! Does that mean that there was at some point ductwork under the floor that is no longer there?

My OMFG, on Friday I went to see a new potential project. Abandoned single family house the owner wants to turn into retail on bottom, apartment upstairs. The second the front door opened I smelled something dead. Opened the door to find two decaying kittens and tons of bird feathers. Not newborns but toddler kittens. Decaying. I was like SERIOUSLY LIFE?!?! Has my week not been bad enough, you give me dead kittens???

[RamblingRose]

bunnymendelbaum I am gagging on your behalf.

[adhdfashion]

O.O

[nursewife]

Wow, that's special.

[r]

We found a hidden vent in our powder room! I kept feeling the floor pop in a certain spot so my husband cut a hole in the vinyl. Luckily it wasn't as bad as yours and was actually hooked up to the system so we just popped a vent cover in there and now we have a heated and cooled bathroom. People do such weird things.

[pumpkin]

What a crazy find! And of course the room was always cold ~eyeroll~

[mrs.jacinthe]

Nov 12, 2016 19:46:37 GMT -5 bunnymendelbaum said:

That is ridiculous! Does that mean that there was at some point ductwork under the floor that is no longer there?

My OMFG, on Friday I went to see a new potential project. Abandoned single family house the owner wants to turn into retail on bottom, apartment upstairs. The second the front door opened I smelled something dead. Opened the door to find two decaying kittens and tons of bird feathers. Not newborns but toddler kittens. Decaying. I was like SERIOUSLY LIFE?!?! Has my week not been bad enough, you give me dead kittens???

Gag!

And yes, apparently the old HVAC system had a register there. No idea why they took it out.

[mrsukyankee]

I figured a gif would be most appropriate here.

[mrsemilys]

Oh my.... At least your house will be warmer now??

[TBM]

It should be fairly easy to get that connected to the hvac, right?

[moolarkey]

Nov 13, 2016 11:48:03 GMT -5 TBM said:

It should be fairly easy to get that connected to the hvac, right?

You might be able to connect it easily but the current HVAC might not be able to support the increased square footage.
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[TBM]

Nov 13, 2016 11:51:03 GMT -5 moolarkey said:

Nov 13, 2016 11:48:03 GMT -5 TBM said:

It should be fairly easy to get that connected to the hvac, right?

You might be able to connect it easily but the current HVAC might not be able to support the increased square footage.
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Good point.  I would think that it would at least be worth looking into.

[mrs.jacinthe]

We actually built a little wooden "filler" and plugged it already. It was a weird spot for HVAC, which may why they removed it initially.