New flooring

I've gotten alot done since my last post, but I don't have pictures of everything yet. We finally took our old 1960's oven out to the curb a few weeks ago so I could put down the underlayment. It was in this state for a couple weeks while I filled the cracks and nail heads with wood filler and sanded.

We moved all our living room furniture into the dining room so we could unroll the new sheet vinyl to let it flatten out and then transfer the design and cut it out.

It is now firmly affixed to the kitchen flooor, which was quite a difficult job which Mindy helped me with. It's not perfect, but I just have to remind myself of the old faded, ripped, rumpled, grease stained carpet and be grateful for the vast improvement.

Thursday night (during Lost) I finished tuck pointing the chimney. Today I finished installing the base cabinets, which required much shimming and adjusting to get them level and parallel to the pattern on the floor. Tomorrow someone is coming from Home Depot to measure for the countertops and place the order. In the two weeks or so that it takes to get the counters delivered I will work on window and door moldings, kick plates and quarter rounds. And if I have time, I need to build a broom closet to go next to the new range.

I'll post more pictures when Mindy takes them.

Top coat done

I know it doesn't look done, but we just didn't paint behind where the cabinets are going to go to save paint. I only bought one gallon so we had to strech it a little. After finishing the blue, I realized I still hadn't done any mudding behind the oven, which we left sitting there so we can continue to use it. I finished the mudding the last couple days and tonight primed it. We have a little bit of blue left so I will paint that tomorrow.

We finalized our choice of flooring and I ordered it tonight. It's a sandstone colored sheet vinyl with a 9 inch square pattern. As soon as that comes in we'll take the old oven out to the curb so I can nail down the 1/4" underlayment, which Mindy and I bought and strapped to the roof of my car last weekend.

walls primed

slow

Well, I had hoped to get the mudding completely finished before this weekend but it didn't happen. It took all of Monday evening to sand the first coat, and all of Tuesday evening to do less than half of a second coat, and I will need at least one more skim coat coat to smooth things out.

In this first picture you can see some wood shims on the wall which are holding pieces of wire which I will use to pull the actual wiring through the walls for the recessed xenon lights under the cabinets. I ordered Pockit lights that hadn't come in yet at the time we hung the drywall.

mud & tape

All the drywall is hung now, and although the pictures don't show it, there is one complete coat of mud and tape on the seams and screws.

No more sink

This morning I removed the sink and remaining base cabinets. I was then able to finish insulating and drywall the last outside wall. I also put in the outlet for the new dishwasher and disposal. So tonight Mindy and I washed dishes in the basement sink.

Gas pipe

This little gas valve took me two trips to Home Depot and 3 hours work to install. Now we have the capability of gas or electric range. We got a dul fuel (gas range/electric oven) so I had to install a new 120 V outlet for the oven and the gas supply for the range.