Remodel's Fifth Week

On Monday the painters came back to finish the walls in the kitchen, family room and laundry/bath room. They will make one more trip back to touch up and finish cutting in the final coat in the corners of the family room. They are also charged with the task of staining and lacquering the doors and molding before installation by the finish carpenters. But they do that work at their shop. Here is a picture of the family room color with the darker accent wall.

Tuesday the new laundry/bath window went in. It's an awning window that opens from the bottom and we tried to closely match the style of the kitchen and family room windows and doors. They had to come back on Wednesday to patch in siding.

Prep for the the new vinyl floor began late Tuesday. The cabinets were scheduled to start install on Wednesday but they were not ready so was pushed to Thursday. A lucky break for the flooring guy; because of his late start, he would have had to work late into the night to finish. He finished installing all the vinyl on Wednesday afternoon.

Thursday afternoon the base cabinets, pantry cabinet and refrigerator nook arrived for install. The pantry cabinet almost didn't make it into the house. They had to take off weather stripping and the back door and it took four men to get it in. When they tipped it upright it cleared the ceiling by about 1/4 inch. Monday the rest of the cabinets will be installed.

On Friday the project foreman installed our sink prior to the counter top template later in the morning. Because the sink is an under mounted sink, he had to build a support system so it would sit just a hair below counter top level. As he was working on the sink support most of our appliances arrived and were stored in the garage. What didn't arrive was our range hood and the dishwasher. We hope to get those next week.

The stone guy arrived to make a template of all the counter tops about 10:00 A.M. He is the reason the range has to be on site. He needs to take measurements of the range for exact fit. Turns out he'd never worked with our make of range before so it was new territory for him. It also turns out the our range is a little deeper than most ranges out there so it will stick out from the counter a little more than we had hoped. Not much we can do about that but live with it. He was able to convince our designer to add a little more depth than was designed to the eating bar counter to make it more user friendly for two diners. He should be able to install the counter tops next Friday.