As you night know I bike to work along the Schuykill River bike path, that is shared with walkers. On Thursday a car wanted to share the path as well, unfortunately it was a little too wide to get under the Chestnut street bridge.

The south facing old kitchen floor


The mysterious “trap door”



Joists all repaired and leveled



3/16 plywood covering to match height of new wood to old wood


Ready for “David R. Hardwood Co” to come in.


After first day (Wednesday evening)


Final product (Saturday morning, 9 Feb.)


Here is the upstairs

The floor joists needed a bit of work and we did not need the old trap door opening. So Roland put away his fine wood crafting tools and applied some heavy lumber, ensuring at the same time the floor level was all within 1/16 th of an inch!



We even put the “mystery brick towers” to use to support the floor from underneath.