Google+ House Revivals: No More Closet of Death

Sunday, July 31, 2011

No More Closet of Death

Sometimes, the little things sure do mean a lot.  Getting a new floor in the closet under the stairwell is one of those things.
Do you see that patch in the subfloor?  That was a crawl space access when the house was only three feet off the ground.  Now that the house is twelve feet off the ground, we can access the "crawl space" through a door in the garage -- and accessing the crawl space via the access panel might not end well for the person involved.

The access panel kept getting knocked off of the opening by workers, and they never bothered nailing it down permanently -- even though I repeatedly asked them to (I had visions of my dog falling through)....

We started calling it the "closet of death".  A couple of weeks ago we finally got it buttoned up, and got the new flooring laid.  No more Closet of Death.  Like I said, it's the little things....