Bathtub Stuck Repack -

Lena peered into the crawl space below. Through the jagged hole in the floor, she could see the living room ceiling. Specifically, she could see the ceiling fan spinning lazily directly beneath the bathroom.

So she improvised.

And now, as Lena pried, the tub was not lifting. The floor was lifting with it. bathtub stuck

She froze. “No,” she whispered.

What Lena hadn’t known—couldn’t have known—was that the previous owner, a man named Horace who’d been a hoarder of both cats and amateur engineering, had “reinforced” the bathroom floor after a leaky pipe rotted the original joists. But Horace didn’t believe in screws or nails. Horace believed in spite. He’d slathered the underside of the tub with industrial epoxy and glued it directly to the subfloor. Then, for good measure, he’d poured a layer of quick-set concrete around the feet. Lena peered into the crawl space below

She braced her feet against the wall, gripped the tub’s rim, and heaved. So she improvised