There was no choice but to remove the subfloor since the tile was so severley stuck to it (see tile mess here). When doing a kitchen renovation, trust me, you dont want to run into this problem. Under the subfloor was an old wood floor in half the room, and floor joists in the other half. The floor joists had “sister joists” attached to the sid of each one that leveled out the floor for tile. The bowed floor dropped nearly 2 inched from side to center. The problem was that the sister joists were also glued to the subfloor in that half, so they had to go also. We basically stripped half the room down to joists. These pictures are a bit blurry but you get the idea:
bowed floor joists
bowed floor joists
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