Remodeling

[R. J.]

Our new Cabinets arrived yesterday around 10 AM. My friend Wayne, my wife Debbie & I installed the upper units yesterday. We will do the lowers today. We also got a Blanco black composite granite sink & SS strainers.

 

[R. J.]

Yesterday my friend Wayne, son Jared & I mounted the bottom cabinets. Today I trimmed some base boards & door trim. I also did some of the pluming & reinstalled the appliances.

 

[R. J.]

Today my wife Deb, Jared & I installed brushed nickel handles on all the cabinets & knob on the pantry door. I also put the kick/toe plate on the bottom of the cabinets. I bought 2 templets from Lowes for aligning the hardware. Total cost was $160.

 

[R. J.]

Today I installed the new over the range microwave $270 & 12 oak switch plate covers $70. I also did the new replacement ceiling fan $320. The first one had an electrical problem. We picked out a back splash may be. See pic #5.

 

[WillyD]

Looks great RJ

 

[R. J.]

Thank's a bunch. I'm waiting on the counter top installer. Lows contracted South East Stone out of Orlando FL. Lowes gave me the best price. I got 25% off of the cabinets & the counter top. My friend Dennis works in the Cabinet Dept at Lowes. She has been using her Employee 10% discount for me on everything else for the kitchen.

 

[R. J.]

Today I sweated in the 1/4 turn hot & cold water valves. Next I'll fit the new BLANCO black garnet composite sink & mount the new APEC reverse osmosis drinking water system. Markus how's my pluming job look? I used threaded valves. I don't care for the pressure fit type. I had one break loose & flood my master bed room 2 days after doing my master bath. Also the gator/shark bits spin. I don't trust them either. Is BLANCO a good sink. It's made in Canada. Thank's R. J.

 

[WillyD]

Looks good

 

[R. J.]

I put a plug on the dishwasher instead of hard wiring it. Drilled the 1 1/2" hole in the sink cabinet for the hot water supply & the drain for the dishwasher. Also I burned all the cardboard that the new cabinets came in. It took me 4 hours because I cut the boxes up in small sections to be burned a little at a time.

 

[WillyD]

Nice job..I just bought a house as me and my wife split. I have been doing things little by little. just keeping to myself these days. I don't really have much motivation to do anything. Some day maybe.

 

[markus56]

Your plumbing job looks just fine R.J. I'm an old school copper guy too man......just don't trust alot of the plastic stuff........

 

[R. J.]

Our 11/86 new house is all copper. The builder gave us a choice so we went with copper. Here in Fl 1000 of homes that was built in the 90s have some type of plastic piping that since has been banned. When people buy one of theses homes they are made to redo all the pluming. It runs them between 4 to 8K depending on the size of the home. Two story homes run even more.

 

[R. J.]

Today I routed out the sink cabinet so the sink would sit flush with the top of the cabinet. Also I ran the water line for the ice maker from the reverse osmosis system & put a plug on the garbage disposal instead of hard wiring it in. This will make things much easier the next time.

 

[R. J.]

The counter top guys are coming today for fitment of our quarts counter tops. I rechecked the cabinets plum & leveling. Nothing moved. If it would have I really could of not done much anyway. When we leveled the cabinets we first set them in place lining them up with the top ones then bolted them all together. The floor concrete leveler that we put down did the trick because we used very few shims.

 

[R. J.]

The new Delta Faust & hand soap dispenser came today.

 

[R. J.]

Matt & Jesus from Southeast Stone installed our sink & counter tops today. Also they drilled for our faucets & soap dispenser. We had a little bit of a set back. I cracked our new composite garnet sink. I was installing the filler on the bottom of the top cabinet that goes between/above the sink & dropped my air brad nailer & chipped the back left corner. Build.com covered it under warranty. I made 2 cutting boards out of the waste piece of the sink cut outs.

 

[madmanncr500]

 

[kawboy]

You could have duct-taped it.

 

[R. J.]

Tonight I completed all the pluming under the sink & made another cutting board from the second piece of the sink cut out. Also I installed the new 6 stage filter APEC reverse osmosis drinking water system & the two new BLANCO sink strainers. The 4 gal. water storage tank was to big to go next to the BADGER garbage disposer so I had to put it under the corner cabinet.

 

[R. J.]

Gorilla tape is better & it's black. That didn't set well with my wife. She got in the RAV 4 & smoked the tires.