Rebuilding the Ugly Duckling

Off the rear of the house is a small utility room that houses our laundry machines.
These small 6’x7’ rooms have been the “Ugly Duckling” of the house. It was covered in cheep plywood, with some really ugly battens….
The lower room was reframed by our contractors because a new floor was required for the new living room.
There was such an extensive amount of dry rot, they reframed the walls as well.
On top of all this, the upper floor is out of level by almost 2 inches… Although we had no plans to reframe the upper utility room, when we pulled the windows out to keep them from breaking when we tried to level the floor… SURPRISE! More dry rot.
So, we had to reframe the upper room as well.