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Home Stretch
During this project I expected to be posting frequent updates as I progressed, but the project was so overwhelming in scope and demand that I had very little time for anything else. So, it’s been a long time since I … Continue reading
Improvise, Adapt, Overcome
Hanging wall cabinets by myself. Rube Goldberg would have been proud. Paul (my brother-in-law) says: “Nice, but I’d use screws”
Midway
Home Stretch
The corner is turned!
Molasses in January
My comment to Camille: “If I ever volunteer to do anything like this again, be a buddy, and sign me up for electroshock therapy. OK?” Seriously, the only thing that bothers me is that everything takes two or three times … Continue reading
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Rock Ready
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 … Continue reading
To The Dump
Stuffed to the gills, with 820 pounds of crumbling drywall, collapsed cabinets, and the cheapest studs I’ve ever seen! It amazes me that there is an endless steady stream of people filling this transfer station with everything you can imagine. … Continue reading
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Strikeout
Behind the kitchen cabinet, I see that some doofus tried more than TWENTY FOUR TIMES to find a stud with a nail, and never did connect. Nothing unusual behind the drywall, just evidence that there are people out there who … Continue reading
To The Studs
All opened up, with a house full of plaster dust and the stink of years of bad cooking and nonexistent hygiene. I should have worn a mask for this…
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Boom Time
This weekend, the complete tearout!
Soffits Begone
We’re making slow progress. I’m tearing a little out at a time so I can fill our 64 gallon garbage bin to the hilt every week, thereby minimizing the weight I wind up trucking to the dump and paying (by … Continue reading
Another Builder Ripoff
While exposing the framing in our house, I noticed that the builder used 2x4s which are made of cutoffs and scraps that have been finger jointed together. The entire kitchen is framed with this shite. I’m absolutely astonished – and … Continue reading
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The Kitchen – Part 2
The trim and cabinets are a very cheap grade of particleboard (sawdust and glue, actually) with a plastic coating that serves as a finish. In some places, the bond has failed, and the surface coating is peeling away from the … Continue reading
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Legerdemain and PFM – 5
When removing cabinets alone, it is helpful to stack sawhorses as a support while you remove the mounting hardware. I have two horses, a saw pony (what else would you call a 1/2 sized sawhorse?) and scrap 2 x 4s … Continue reading
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