Kitchen update after two weeks
It’s been two full weeks since the contractors first started on our kitchen. They’ve made a lot of progress:
- The chimney and old stub wall were removed.
- A new ceiling and stub wall were framed in.
- The old galvanized steel plumbing was replaced. All of our house plumbing beyond the water main is now copper.
- New lighting is installed in the kitchen. We have 5 recessed can lights in the kitchen and two pendants which will hang down over the peninsula. This is a huge improvement from our single lighting fixture in the old kitchen.
- Drywall was put up on the stub wall and ceiling and everything is taped and sanded.
- Cabinets have arrived.
I’ve been taking photos as every major part is done. Each of the links above links to the photos for that portion.
On Wednesday we stopped construction due to a problem with the cabinets. The cabinet boxes that arrived are made of particle board instead of the plywood that we ordered. It is going to take the cabinet company about two weeks to make the new cabinet boxes. Luckily the doors, drawers and hardwareare identical, so they can be moved from our old boxes to the new ones. In the meantime we’ll have a lot of time to repaint the kitchen.
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