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A bit more demolition. I isolated a nasty draft insofar as I figured it was coming from behind the sink unit, but couldn't figure out how to get everything apart. Today I figured how to get everything apart, undid the drain pipes and cut the feed pipes so I could remove the top with the sink in it, and took the units out so I could get at the drywall, then pulled the drywall down. Lots of nasty featherboards nailed to the concrete block and eventually I found a problem, a gap in the brickwork big enough to put my fist in. I'll bet that's the reason it was always cold under there, and there was a nasty draft, and the basement room below is colder than it seems like it should be.
For now a load of the featherboards are ripped apart ready to be burned. I hate to burn 100 year old cedar but getting it off the wall ripped it apart and I have so much cedar it's hardly worth keeping scraps of it. I've got a pile of drywall that needs to be broken into smaller pieces so I can bag it up, and a wad of fiberglass stuffed into the offending hole. So now we wait to see if it fixed the problem or if there's something else ugly going on there.
For now a load of the featherboards are ripped apart ready to be burned. I hate to burn 100 year old cedar but getting it off the wall ripped it apart and I have so much cedar it's hardly worth keeping scraps of it. I've got a pile of drywall that needs to be broken into smaller pieces so I can bag it up, and a wad of fiberglass stuffed into the offending hole. So now we wait to see if it fixed the problem or if there's something else ugly going on there.