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Kitchen/Laundry Reno -- First Week

June 28th, 2025 at 12:19 am

 

Good progress was made this week.

+ The dumpster arrived and was set up. It was bigger than anticipated since the smaller ones were all rented. So, I took on the additional task of rid of anything we planned to trash.

+ The cabinets were delivered and stacked inside our garage like hay bales.

+ The plastic ‘wall’ with the zipper door was installed.

+ The demolition was completed. This included cabinets, appliances, an island, and two partition walls.

+ The cabinet boxes were each opened and evaluated for accuracy and damage.

+ The wall behind the new stove location and the wall extending between the kitchen and laundry were framed up.

+ I selected the kitchen sink, stovetop, and water ozonator.

This week also included two unpleasant surprises.

The first one involved one of the partition walls that was removed. The area that will be the new laundry room used to be a closet, the dead space for the door swinging in from the garage, and the laundry room. The removed walls formed the closet and the old laundry entrance. The closet wall had nothing inside. The laundry wall was expected to have electrical wires for a switch but it had more than that!

That pipe is a sewage pipe from an upstairs toilet that is not located directly above that wall. So that means that there is extra work to be done to reroute that sewage pipe. The contractor has evaluated the options and it could be worse – at least the code will allow us to route the pipe through a joist since it is less than 1/3 of the width.

The second surprise was that one of the cabinets was damaged, despite the sturdy packaging. It will be returned and replaced. I hope it doesn’t take long. This surprise could have been worse too – at least the cabinet is not the one that houses the sink, the stovetop, the dishwasher, or the oven.

 

 

 

Posted in Personal Finance | 11 Comments »

11 Responses to “Kitchen/Laundry Reno -- First Week”

  1. LifeBalance Says:
    June 28th, 2025 at 12:26 am 1751066765
    1751066765

    I struggled with formatting on this entry. Not sure what I did wrong but at least it's readable now.

  2. mumof2 Says:
    June 28th, 2025 at 08:49 am 1751096972
    1751096972

    wow another kitchen reno...hope the rest of it goes smoothly

  3. Turtle Lover Says:
    June 28th, 2025 at 02:44 pm 1751118289
    1751118289

    very interesting to see the photo and hear about the goings on of a reno.
    Glad no "worse case" scenerios .... (knock on wood LOL)

  4. rob62521 Says:
    June 29th, 2025 at 06:47 pm 1751219263
    1751219263

    Sorry about the "surprises." Hopefully no more!

  5. jonelvinnaorbe Says:
    June 30th, 2025 at 07:10 am 1751263817
    1751263817

    Hello LifeBalance,

    If you are having issues with formatting after copy and pasting from a Document file or from any other sources, you can try to:

    1. Select all the content inside the editor.
    2. Click on "Format" > "Clear formatting".

    Kindly inform me if that fixes the issue.

    Thanks.

  6. LivingAlmostLarge Says:
    June 30th, 2025 at 08:14 pm 1751310869
    1751310869

    wow so much renovations.

  7. disneysteve Says:
    June 30th, 2025 at 10:37 pm 1751319425
    1751319425

    Very exciting and good progress so far. As for surprises, those are a given with any remodel. We had a few ourselves.

    What's your estimated time frame?

  8. LifeBalance Says:
    July 1st, 2025 at 02:57 am 1751335024
    1751335024

    Thanks for the tip jonelvinnaorbe. I do usually type my post into Word first so that may work.

  9. LifeBalance Says:
    July 1st, 2025 at 03:03 am 1751335392
    1751335392

    DS, the contractor doesn't have a deadline and I predicted that this would take the summer. That's what I wrote on the permit application, which he saw. Given his pace, I may be pleasantly surprised. I don't want to put any pressure on him to hurry though. He's a bit of a perfectionist and it's reflected in the quality of his work.

  10. jonelvinnaorbe Says:
    July 1st, 2025 at 11:35 am 1751366129
    1751366129

    You're welcome, LifeBalance, kindly inform me if that works. I'll be here to help.

  11. disneysteve Says:
    July 1st, 2025 at 01:59 pm 1751374787
    1751374787

    LB I asked this in response to your post on my blog but just in case you don't see that, you mentioned that the cabinets are going in first and then the floor tile will be set around them. I'm curious why. Our old kitchen was that way but our contractor was clear on tiling the entire floor and then putting the cabinets and appliances on the completed floor, not working the floor around things. Clearly people go either way but I'm wondering why, other than saving on the cost of flooring. If you ever decide to change anything, you're kind of stuck when there are areas not tiled.

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