Bathroom Structural Floor Damage
The structural damage caused to this bathroom was
from a poorly installed bathtub. The structural damage was pretty
extensive and required replacing floor joist, floor sheeting and areas
of wall framing.
Here's a great example of a remodeled bathroom that was less than two
years old and looked nice from the inside but once the stucco was
removed on the exterior, the extent of the damage became visible.
While inspecting some homes, you will run into situations like this and
have no idea from the outside, what the inside looks like. The interior
of this bathroom looked good and would definitely give someone an
illusion that the bathroom framing would be in great shape.
Crawling underneath the house with a flashlight to inspect the floor
framing, you would have noticed the damage to the floor joist and floor
sheeting. However you would have never been able to see the damage
behind the shower walls, without removing the tile or stucco.
It's hard to imagine this bathroom was remodeled less than two years ago
and the damage is so bad. This is what water can do in a short period of
time to wood.
Never assume that everything is fine while doing any home inspections.