Kitchen Remodel - Day 38 to 48, February 9th to 19th

Wednesday,February 10th

Had to make several trips to several different hardware stores.  For some reason it's hard to find the right configuration needed.  Bruce is getting frustrated and I don't blame him.

Thursday, February 11th

I had a nice break (not that I need one) to go to my Thursday morning applique group.

behind sink

Bruce got the drain pipe in.  He reconfigured the pipe that goes into the garage for the washer, sink and water softener with all new pipes.  

garage sink with softener drainpipe

Friday, February 12th

Had to make 2 trips to Home Depot for sink connectors for the garage wash tub sink.  The ones that came with the sick were only 6" long; pretty useless.  But Bruce got the right ones finally and got the sink hooked up.  Yea, no more washing paint brushes, etc in the kitchen sink!

Had a nice dinner at the kids house.  BBQ'd hamburgers and mac and cheese.  My kind of meal!  Did you know that was our wedding night dinner?  Yea, some little hamburger joint on the road going up to Tahoe.  Makes me smile just remember what fun we had.

Saturday, February 13th

Took the girls to breakfast.  

Bruce got more blocking up between the studs.  Wants to make sure that there's solid place to secure the cabinets.  He got most of the insulation in the two exterior walls.   One of those is the garage wall.

I got to enjoy the day with the girls.  We went shopping for goodies.  Made cut out cookies in the shape of hearts, stars and flowers.  Got them all decorated for gifts.  Such fun.

Sunday, February 14th  Happy Valentine's Day!

Bruce took the day off.....well from working on the kitchen.  He programmed all day.

Took the girls to Sharky's Mexican food for lunch.  One of Molly's favorites.  That and Red Robin.  I think they are only her favorites cause it's where we take her the most.

Monday, February 15th

Finished insulating the walls.  You know Bruce does a lot more than I end up writing about. There are so many little things that have to be tweaked or done that I don't see or forget to write down.  Light the lights falling out of the ceiling because of the hammering.  They are pushed all the way in because we need to take them out to paint.  I think he finally took all but the two center ones out completely and went back to using work lights.

Went to Home Depot for sheet rock for the walls.  While I stood in line to return left over insulation, he loaded 12 sheets on a cart.  After we paid for them I waited while he got the truck.  The "loader" was there helping someone else; as soon as he was finished he looked and me and the sheet rock, the next thing I knew he was no where to be found.  I helped Bruce load the truck.  At home he carried them all in the house and I just helped stack them on the floor.  Needless to say he was exhausted at the end of the day.  That stuff is heavy!

Have you noticed how clean the site is?  Bruce vacuums and cleans up every day.  He can't stand messes.  My sewing room drives him crazy. :)

Tuesday, February 16th

Bruce got the "pony" wall up.  Don't know why he calls it that.  It's the half wall for the peninsula and eating counter.  Got the brackets in.  Had an old shelf to put on top of the brackets so no one runs into them.

The end wall got built.  We designed it so that the entry wall is cut back (and built out at the bottom) at the top where the end of the eating counter is located.

Wednesday, February 17th

Bruce got the grass cut.  Suppose to rain tomorrow.

I babysat over at Molly's in the afternoon.  Nick is at a "Ropes" class all this week.  

The garage wall got sheet rocked.  Bruce is only putting in enough screws to hold it in place; he'll go back later and add more screws.  It's a very tiring process.  (More so when you're 66)

Thursday, February 18th 

I escaped again to my applique group in the morning.  I "built" the second tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. :)

Meanwhile, Bruce got the peninsula and entry walls and part of the exterior wall sheet rocked.  When I got home he handed me the multi-tool to cut out the notches for the brackets on the dining room side of the peninsula wall.  You can do a lot of damage with that thing!

Friday, February 19th

That little black triangle is the drainpipe

Got the sheet rock on the exterior wall finished.  The drain pipe going into the slab is not centered so it sticks out pass the studs.  It's no wonder the old one was jerry-rigged with duct tape.  So that had to be cut around.  He finished up all the odd on end pieces of sheet rock. Like the around the corner.  Forgot that the entry wall has "orange peel" texture on it.  Our new little lower wall has to be matched to it. Either that or Bruce will have to skim coat the rest of the entry wall with spackle to smooth it out to match the new all. Better look, but very messy to do because it all has to be done, sanded and re-done and sanded some more. That wall is open to my sewing room.

Entry corner of eating counter

Bruce also got the rest of the sheet rock screws in.  Took him till 5pm to finish up.

Wish this program would let me draw arrows to the pictures. :)   If you have forgotten or you can go back to December 2015 to see the rendering of what this all is suppose to look like when it's finished.