The first wall rewired, blocked, shimmed, plumbed and ready for (sheet)rock!
The blocking has made the walls much more sturdy, to the point that Camille quipped that in the next earthquake, we should run to the kitchen!
We’ve been without a functioning kitchen for over a week, so all of my spare time is now disappearing into this black hole, to the extent that I have lost track of everything except showing up at work on time on weekdays.
The good news is that we are now in the home stretch. All of the major changes (rerouting plumbing, rewiring the 220 and kitchen outlets) are completed, and I am now preparing the walls to be as flat and smooth as a slate billiard table in preparation for the sheetrock. Rock arrives tomorrow, and goes up this week.
The cabinets are next, and I expect the entire project to be wrapped in less than two weeks!