time to get serious

 

I’m using a week of vacation to take a giant leap in our kitchen remodel project.  The goal is to have all of the new cabinets installed before I go back to work.  With Su & Andy’s help I think we have a fighting chance…

 

Out with the old!  The east side cabinets came down first.  The uppers came down fairly easily.  The lowers, not so much.  Since moving here I’d always assumed that where were cheap crap cabinets.  In the process of removing them I’ve had a better opportunity to study their design and construction and have come the the conclusion that my original assessment was wrong.  They are in fact really, really cheap crap cabinets. 

 

In with the new!! Here are the first three set in place for a test fit.  These have been anchored in place with cabinet backs and drawers installed.   I originally thought we’d need to completely gut the kitchen & replace the underlayment before installing the new cabinets but the floor we’ve chosen will work just fine with the existing underlayment even though it’s not perfectly smooth.  Because of this we can do one side of the kitchen at a time.

 

Removing the old cabinets on the west side of the kitchen proved to be even more problematic .  Several of them were glued to chunks of two by four which were in turn stuck to the floor with construction adhesive.  I had to destroy three of the cabinets to get them out, including the tall oven cabinet that I had to saw in half with a jig saw!

Here’s how it looks tonight.  The plumbing has been disconnected and the last of the old cabinets have gone out the door.  Here is the base for the next set of cabinets, just waiting to be leveled and screwed into place.  Hope to start setting cabinets on this side tomorrow…

 

cheers - dj