Replacing Rotting Floor Boards

The contractor took one look at the flooring and declared, “it will all have to be torn down and rebuilt!”
I blinked and looked at the flooring, it looked ok to me, just a little sag and a little rot here and there but it was sturdy enough to hold out for a few more months, perhaps if luck was on my side, another year. “Are you sure?” I questioned, “Can’t you just do a quick repair?”
“Sure, I can do a quick repair,” he replied, “but in two months you will be calling me again to do another quick repair. The only beneficiary of a series of quick repairs would be your wallet, lightened of its load.”
I grimaced and sighed, realizing I had hired a comedian for a contractor, I responded, “Ok, give me a full estimate to replace the foundation from wood to wall.”

Looking at the floor again, it didn’t look too bad but the gentleman explained that despite the nice look of the top, beneath, the floorboards were eaten away by termites, annoying little insects, sometimes hard to see but showed the results of their work proudly. The final analysis was that I needed to change to something solid and lasting like concrete.

Many times in life we come to the realization that we need to change from rotting floorboards to something solid and lasting in our lives. We hem and we haw, looking at and seeing the floor as ‘not so bad’, telling ourselves that we can still ‘work with it’ and get a few more years out of it even when it has been rotting away from the underneath for months, maybe years.
What are your rotting floorboards?

Bad habits?

Unhealthy lifestyles?

Toxic relationships?

Energy-draining frenemies?

An unfulfilling job?

A stress-filled body?

Are we going to replace the foundation or wait until we fall through the floor?