Day 8 - Time to close it all in!

Today was about drywall and getting plumbing ready for when we put cabinets in ... oh and 2 trips to Home Depot and 3 trips to Tenenbaum hardware store.  Tomorrow should be ready to prime and paint kitchen area after a light sand.

Added the shutoff valves and tested the water before we closed in the walls with drywall.

Drywall on the ceiling! no more stuff falling on my head all the time.

Walls going up.

After first coat

North wall first coat.

After 3rd and last coat.

Water shutoff valve for the refrigerator

Building new soffit for plumbing.

Day 7 - Electrical done, for now.

Today started out with a call at 6:15 AM to tell me the cabinets were almost here, so I quickly started to clean and clear out a spot for them to go in the front of the house (more photos below.) After that the day was spent helping the electrician finish, doing some plumbing, getting ready to do more plumbing (more holes in the walls) cleaning up and gearing up for dry wall tomorrow by making sure edges are straight and square, putting up insulation and vapor barrier, oh and a trip to the Home Depot.  I also had a small POD dropped off behind my house today in case I need more space to put stuff while the floors are being done.

A view of all the boxes at 7am.  There were 81 pieces that came on the trunk today.

view of all the boxes from the front door.

Electrical wiring done, above there is a whip for the under counter lighting. 

the box on the top middle has the new circuit pulled to it as well and the new 220 for the oven.

If you look back a few days you will notice that the  white pipes (drain and vent) no longer "Y," instead they are now completely separate so we can run them over to the new sink location on the south wall.

New can light above the desk area.

Look familiar?  No it is not the same picture as the demo day, but the insulation and vapor barrier (plastic) is back up and the walls and ceilings are ready to be dry walled!!!  Does the window look a little different as well?  Now you can see how the framing works that I did on Day 2.

Day 6 - "220 ... 221 what ever it takes"

Today the 2 full bagster bags were picked up and I took some video of huge bags over the guys head with some tears in them, hoping they would not break.  All was good and he came during the break in the rain. The north wall electrical piping was complete and we ran a new 3/4 pipe from my electrical box in my bedroom to the kitchen for the 240 circuit and a new additional circuit.  Once done there will be 8 circuits in the kitchen.  Electrician will complete the wire pull tomorrow and be done until next week when the cabinets are in and then return for the final day of work.

New 3/4 pipe coming up from the floor.  This new home run back to the electrical box goes downstairs and through the ceiling of the lower floor and then through the ceiling of my neighbors storage unit and then up again to the box.  About 40 feet or 3/4 pipe used.

North wall electrical piping complete.

Boxes installed for pendant stile lighting above the breakfast bar.

Had some people look at granite today, but not the right size, so time to put it in the garbage.  To do that I broke it up with a hammer and carried a little bit at a time (not light).

Before Sat. everything needs to be ready for the floor guys so that means pulling up carpet and what seems like hundreds of staples that need to be pulled out.

All the speakers wired, cat5e and cable TV.  Also I put a 1 1/2 inch PVC pipe in the wall (the white hole in the middle) so that HDMI cable can be run to TV in the wall.  Still need to finish the patch jobs and prime and paint, but this part is getting close to being done!

Day 5 - Electrical and Pumbing

Today, was all about trying to finish what I can to be able to close in the walls with drywall by Thursday afternoon.  Since the flooring guys are coming on Sat. it would be nice to have most of the drywall upstairs finished by then.  Today I went to home depot a few times to get different pieces for the refrigerator water run that is going to be in the north wall.  I also helped the electrician pull some wires and I cut the holes for the speakers and mounted the bracket for the TV.

The new copper pipe coming up from the floor on the right and then stopping behind where the refrigerator is going.  After we drywall I will add the 1/4 tap and copper coil for the water and ice machine hook up.

with all the new circuits on the south wall and not enough depth to pass conduit over each other, the electrician has to carefully plan the layout and weave up and down. 

More up and down running of the conduit.

New data drops for the desk location.

Ran speaker wire for the in wall speakers and hung the bracket for the TV.

Day 4 - Electrical work begins

Today the Electrician came at about 7am and he and I went though the layout and made sure we had everything planned out.  The we worked on taking out all the old electrical which means lights are now gone and power is off to the kitchen as well as the new office.  I also took the gas out from the old wall and have it prepared for its new location after the floors are re-done.  See pictures below for a few more details.

qty 4 Old 6" lights gone, installed qty 8 new 4" lights. 

New HVAC vent in the floor under the window and next to where the double oven is going.  As you can see I made some dust along the way :)

New Electrical box as well and a few holes (25 of them) that went about 10" to get to the outside.  This 8" hole is for the new Ventahood going in above the cooktop. The electric box is for the Ventahood as well as for lighting that is going in the upper cabinets.  I used a hammer drill to drill each hole at about 5 min per hole. (the writing on the wall was already there)

8" hole chiseled out .... man are my arms tired!  Yes I used a masonry chisel to knock out the cement block.  It did not take as long as the drilling, but was much more work.

Day 3 - Construction begins!

Today I started by going to Home Depot to get some supplies for the up coming projects.  Then I spent the day patching the floor, framing the window, pulling cables and more clean up and demo.

Patch job complete, ready to be refinished in about one week.

Reframed the window to move the sides in a little to line up with the glass block and the bottom because a counter top will now be under the window.  I al also finishing it in wood instead of the drywall hole it was before.

Just a few wires being relocated. 

Most of the wires in their new home, my new office location (Sylvie's old room)

Day 2 - more demo

Today started off taking out more dry wall, having Habitat for Humanity come get the cabinets, having three polish guys at the same time picking up the appliances and meeting with my electrician for a final walk through before he starts on Monday.  So far I have filled 2 Bagsters (see pictures below) and 6 large contractor bags.