Kitchen Update

Short update today. We finally have the kitchen ready for cabinet install, which feels great. A few things had to be done to get it there:

1) We had a window taken out and boarded up where it once was. A siding company came in and did it in one day, removing the window, dry walling, and replanking the exterior with cedar planks that match the rest of our house.

Where the window was removed

I had to paint the new planks (luckily, we had paint left at our house for the exterior), but the thing that I'm horrible at was resealing the end of the planks to the corner beams. I'm horrible with a caulk gun. I wished the company took an extra 30 minutes to do this for us and tacked on $5 for a tube of caulk, because it now looks like a three-year-old got a hold of several tubes of toothpaste.

2) Removing the backsplash. No tricks here, just a ton of sweat -- well I did use my hand saw to make a starter cut which got me going. I bought a chisel which was a solid investment, and basically drove that sucker under the backsplash for about 5 hours.

Was not aware my loving wife took this photo...

Make sure your Shop-Vac doesn't need to be emptied/cleaned out before sucking everything up. It reached a turning point and started kicking all the dust it was sucking up, out and into the kitchen/dining room. Boss lady was not pleased about this. But because I was covered in sweat, and my hands were kind of bleeding, I got a pass.

Werkin

Lights are being installed today, old counters ripped off this week, new counters installed, and the new back board (going with hardie board I think) installed where the old backsplash was, all this week. So finally moving quickly!