Painting almost done

We spent the last couple of days painting and other tasks.  The sheetrock guy suggested that we put a coat of texture over the walls and ceiling before painting.  Since I don't like the 'popcorn' ceilings, I was skeptical.  He assured me that this was very light texture and the paint would adhere better.  So, Herbie mixed it up as instructed and applied it to the walls and ceiling.  I got into the act as the painter after the texture coat had dried.  I finished the second coat on the walls this morning. 

Not a great picture but I really love the color.

Herbie had to rework the subfloor since it wasn't level.  He got that all worked out and finished today.

While he was working on the floor, I painted the ceiling.  I hate painting ceilings!  I had paint in my hair and on all parts of my body.  Unfortunately for me, I have to do a second coat on the ceiling.  I'm not surprised but still not happy.  So tomorrow morning (Wed) , I repaint the ceiling while Herbie goes to Chuck's to get the crown molding.  If you don't know about Chuck's you'll have to contact Herbie.  They have some awesome deals.  Herbie will cut the crown molding, I'll paint it, and he'll put it up.  We're trying to get this done before the cabinets are installed Thrusday.  We'll see if we get that done.  Either way, cabinets will be delivered Wed and installed Thursday!

Sub Floor is back in place

Just a quick post with a few pictures.  Here's the big hole in the floor where the rotten wood was removed.

Below the kitchen is Herbie's workshop which you can see thru the floor.

He had to do some bracing for the new floor from underneath.

The sub sub floor and sub floor are in place

The last section put in was where the wall had been.

There's a little sealing to fill the gaps left.  Next up is painting!

Changes will happen!

More time with the sheetrock guy who was also going to remove the subfloor turned into more questions than answers.  After much discussion we asked David Murray to survey the situation and advise us.  The decision has been made to leave the floor intact execpt for the boards that had gotten wet.  We are going to put down tile warmers under our new floor in the walkways.  That means we have to have a place to put them and seal them under the tile.  So, we will be pulling up the subfloor in the areas the tile warmers will be.  The rest will stay in tact.

Thursday, Herbie started taking up the rotten subfloor.  Unfortunatly, the sub-sub floor (I'm sure that's a technical term) also has rotten wood.  So now all rotten wood is gone and we have a great big hole in the floor, quick access to the workshop underneath.  Since he worked all day today (Friday) on it and was exhausted, we have a piece of plywood over it for safety.  He had to constantly run off Sunny to keep him safe and finally put up gates to keep the dogs out of the kitchen.

Tomorrow Herbie willl put new plywood down. Then we start painting.  The cabinets are scheduled to be installed next Thursday so we should be able to get all the painting done before then.

We ordered pizza last night and ate in.  Tonight we went to Corky's for ribs.  We are also going thru the filtered water and it's only been a week since we lost the sink!  The stove will be gone by Monday although we aren't using it.  But the electrical connection for the stove has to be removed from the floor before the cabinets get here.

And I'm not even going to talk about the mess and the attempt to keep the place clean which is a losing battle!

Sheetrock & Plumbing

Herbie spent Monday punching holes in the wall to find and rerun electricity and then removing the door frames and baseboards.  He was plum worn out!  The sheet rock guys got her a little after 4:00 and proceeded to do their stuff.  Really glad we hired them.  We didn't expect the finishing guy today but he showed up and proceeded to 'finish'.  After watching him, Herbie knows why you need a finishing guy.  He's awesome. 

Today the plumber came. The plumbing stub-out is complete so the sheet rock can be finished.  Thanks to Adam Brooks for coming out on short notice.
Tomorrow the HVAC folks will be here to relocate the heat/air vent in the ceiling.  It was in the fur down previously.  They'll replace it with 2, one on each side of the room.  Then, tomorrow afternoon, the Sheetrock guys will be back to finish the holes from the plumbing and the ceiling.  I'm sure another trip or 2 will be required.

The other thing is the floor.  When Herbie got the cabinets up along the wall where the plumbing was, he found rotten wood in the floor.  The Sheetrock guy who also does floors and stuff finally convinced Herbie that the sub floor needs to come up.  In addition to the rotten wood, the floor would be higher than necessary after the backer board and tile are in.  So, we're hiring him to remove the sub floor.  He can't do it until next week which delays the cabinet installation and hence the granite.  In addition, Herbie has to put the hardy backer down after the sub floor is installed.

What a week!  It's only Tuesday and we're both exhausted.  Herbie has done a great job of trying the keep the kitchen area clean which is an ongoing job.

It appears that the folks we are hiring have 'day' jobs and work on the side so they show up at our house around 3:00 or 4:00 pm.  Last night we had sandwiches for supper after they left after 7:30.  Tonight we are cooking fajitas which will require some dish washing but not much.  I stocked up on sandwich stuff today with a couple of TV dinners in the freezer just in case.  I've also signed up for as many restaurant clubs as I could think of to get coupons.

All Cabinets are gone.

As promised, I no longer have a sink or dishwasher.  The remainder of the cabinets are no more.

We found where all the waterbugs have been living!  Herbie fed them well today more than once.  We also found a lot of damaged wood.  The leak had been going on longer than we knew and who knows how many other leaks have happened in the past.  So there's a lot of wood to come out.

We decided to hire someone to do the sheetrock work since that's not one of Herbie's best skills.  We also have a HVAC guy coming Wed. to relocated the air vent which was in the furdown above the bar.  We'll have 2 vents now on either side of the island.

I got all of the dishes washed and put away and we ran the dishwasher last night.  We went to the resort yesterday to get our filtered water dispenser and all of our bottles of water so we'd have filtered water after the sink disappeared.  I have located my supply of paper plates and disposible utensils.

We're in camp out mode for real for several weeks!

The Floor is no more!

The horribly ugly (see above picture) green and yellow floor is now in a dumpster.  After several days work, we slayed the beast this afternoon.  Much practice revealed the most efficient method:  Herbie manning a Floor scraper and Karen (me) manning the heat gun.  Herbie had done a lot by himself using various other tools but it became obvious that a 2 man operation yielded faster results.  Obviously we don't have pictures of this operation since we haven't taught the dogs to take pictures yet!  But we do have the result:

You cannot imagine how excited we are to be rid of this floor.  Every time I tried to clean, I felt I was actually mopping up part of the actual floor.  Good ridance!

Upon moving the refrigerator to remove the floor, we reazlied we needed to remove the cover of the cooling tubes to vacuum.  Note to anyone with animals, we need to do this!  My goodness.  I could not believe it!  I've freqently moved the refrigerator and vacuumed behind it and vacummed the back but I will definitely be more diligent now!

The dogs think Mom and Dad have lost their marbles.  We had to keep chasing them out because of the heat gun. 

After we disposed of the flooring material, we were not thru with our working day so we removed the remaining cabinets doors.  You have to realize that we are retired and our work day starts between 9 and 10 AM and ends by 4 PM if not before.  Normally during the summer, we stop at 2:30 and head to the pool.  This summer has been the exception.  We're ready to get this sucker done!

Herbie loaded up the doors and remaining drawers and hauled them to the Habitat for Humanity Restore.

Sunny is wondering what the heck happened!

Tomorrow, he's at least going to let me wash up the dishes before he starts destroying the rest of the cabinets.  He has assured me that I will not have a sink by Saturday.

Behind the scenes work continues

Herbie spent a couple of days working on the electricity after he got the wall out.  As you may have seen in the last pictures, there were wires hanging from the ceiling.  He got that all taken care of and nailed some boards over the holes in the ceiling to eliminate insulation falling in the kitchen.  We're still cooking and using the oven.  I baked dog biscuits Saturday and I probably need to do another batch before I lose my sink and dishwasher.

Now we're working on taking up the rest of the old floor.  This is VERY time consuming.  He's using a heat gun and prying the old floor up.  My lest than agile husband has been on his knees and taking frequent breaks in this effort.  Today, I assisted by manning the heat gun.  Then he had to leave to show our car that's for sale.  So after thinking about it, I figured why not so I managed to remove the rest of the floor that he had for his goal for the day.  Nothing like teamwork.

The rest of the cabinets will be out before the end of the week, so says husband.  That means loss of sink and dishwasher.  He's still talking about cooking on the grill.  Paper plates are already purchased but I'm trying to figure out if I really want to wash cooking utensils in my bath tub.  We'll see where this goes.

The Wall is Gone!

It took longer than expected but the wall is history!

Wow!  The room is big without that wall!  The ceiling hasn't fallen in yet:)  We cooked supper tonight, I'm wondering if that will be last one for a while:)  As you can tell, the oven is kind of hanging out.

The rest of the cabinets came in today.  We have scheduled the cabinet installation for Aug 26.  We are going to be very busy between now and then.

Next are the cabinets along the kitchen wall.  The time to lose the sink is drawing near

All cabinets empty, more destruction coming!

Herbie has injured his knee so anything that requires getting on the floor is out.  It's better today so hopefully we're on the mend. 

The pantry door has been installed!  Today, we got a door handle so it's all ready.  I love it!  As I mentioned sometime ago, this was one of my indulgences.  Taking a picture of it proved a challenge!

I spent this afternoon emptying the rest of the cabinets.  Emptying the cabinet with the dog's stuff in it was interesting.  Sunny went crazy.  I finally got it emptied and opened it so he could see that nothing was there.  When I came back thru the kitchen, I opened the door and Misty was sitting inside the cabinet where the dog food used to be.  Too bad I couldn't get a picture.

We took the microwave down.  It was a combo microwave and vent hood.  We have a small microwave for the bar area downstairs so we brought it up to use.

Tomorrow, Mr. Destructo is going for the rest of the cabinets in the middle.  It's time to bring the wall down.  David Murray, who put the support in the attic for the wall, will be present for the destruction of the wall.  I'm thinking of taking the dogs to resort so I won't have to witness this!  However that would require me cooking so we'll have to carefully thing about that.

The time is coming where we will have no sink or dishwasher.  That will be serious and require a lot of paper plates and no cooking!

The Bar is history!

Friday was a big day, the bar is now gone.  Herbie got the laminate off and shuffled it off to Habitat Restore.

The usual lady wasn't there and the one that was didn't know if they wanted it but they took it.

Then the cabinets came out and it's officially gone!

Boy does this look different!  That's Sunny over by the door wanted to know where dad took everything:)

Onward we go.

Another day of progress, however slow

We had a lot going on today but Herbie managed to make progress in spite of having to pick me up at the BMW dealership and then take me back there later.  He also had to pick up rent and cleanning and make a rental deposit.  We used to get so much more done when we worked because time was limited.  Now, it takes forever to run errands and you wonder why you didn't get anything done.  But, I digress:)

The rest of the sheetrock on one side of the wall is history!

We ordered our floor tile and it came in so we have it in the garage.  I think I mentioned that yesterday.  Herbie brought some in and laid it on the floor around the cabinets we already have installed.  I love it!

Mr. Destructo is threatening to take out the bar tomorrow.  That will be exciting and will really open up the room.  Poor puppies will have to go into hiding(:



Mr. Destructo is alive and well

First I have to point out that a Facebook friend brought a mistake to my attention.  A post about our Pantry had a missing 'r' so the title had to do with 'Panty'.  I hate when that happens!

The cabinets are just about empty so Herbie decided to get rid of the cabinets doors.  He made a trip over to Habitat for Humanity Restore to get rid of them.

We're getting closer!  He also tackled the partial wall between the breakfast room and the kitchen.  The is the scary part.  Supposedly, we have support in the attic so it's safe to take down the wall.  I'm struggling with confidence in this assessment.

While taking down part of the wall, there was electrical mishap.  The pantry (including freezer) was out of commission for a while.  But, handyman extrodineer, found the problem and fixed it.

We ordered our tile and received it so we had to make room for it.  I'm really excited about it!

Tomorrow is another day!