Bathroom Floor Demo | Renovating a 1968 House in North Carolina

What’s hiding under a bathroom floor in a 1968 American house? In this video, we start renovating our second bathroom and completely tear up the old floor. When we bought this house in Gastonia, North Carolina, it looked great on the surface — but once we started demo, we discovered some unexpected issues. In this episode: What the bathroom looked like before renovation removing the toilet and floor tiles discovering there was no waterproofing breaking through concrete layers looking into the crawl space from below damaged subfloor and structural concerns HVAC system in an American home figuring out how to remove the bathtub This is a real-life DIY renovation — not perfect, not staged, just our experience fixing an older home. If you’re renovating an older house or curious how homes are built in the U.S., this video is for you. 02:12 Original bathroom condition 04:27 Removing the toilet 07:00 Starting tile removal 09:15 No waterproofing under the floor 09:01 Cutting through tile 11:32 Removing concrete layer 12:22 View under the tub (from crawl space) 14:25 Cat falls into the crawl space 😅 15:35 Floor fully opened 18:35 How do we remove the bathtub? 17:35 Removing remaining subfloor 18:55 HVAC system in an American house 19:55 Structural damage – support beams 20:28 Crawl space view of the floor