810 Kitchen Remodel

Week 3

Weekend Three begins with drinking 5 pitchers of Margarita's the night before for celebration of Cinco de Mayo. Whoever planned that obviously didn't have to get up at dawn to attend the Hamilton Parker Tile Blow out sale. Oh wait that was me.

The HP sale is very similar to the David's bridal dress sale also held once a year. This is where all the crazies come out in search of a good bargin, in this case, floor tile. We get to HP on schedule at 7:30 am and wait in a huge car line waiting for the madness to begin. There is nothing better than a hangover headache and crazy people all in one place, and a million forklifts for that matter. Finally, 8am comes and they funnel all the cars into the secret parking lot in back, very similar to Cedar Point stlye. People were running, yes running, to the tile bays to be the first to scour the loot.

Pallets after pallets of tile were lined up in the bays, with about 18"aisle ways for the crazies to navigate. Pure madness. Joe and I had a very tight gameplan and had 9 boxes of tile in 45min.
We picked out imported Italian ceramic tile 18"square, very Euro, for $15 bucks a box x 9 boxes =$145 with tax. Score. So we got beautiful tile for about $0.95 a sqaure foot. You can't beat that, you really can't. Fair market value of the tile is no less than $5.50 a square foot. My bargin shopping was at its finest.

This is another public announcement, and the Cousino's can back me up on this one. (We saw them there, but no time for small talk, we were on a mission and so were they.)
1.) Do not bring babies, especially babies in strollers
2.) Do not bring full size plan drawings to figure out the SF of tile you need.
3.) Crazy Architects will buy entire pallets full of tile at a drop of a hat.
4.) Don't carry your own tile, it is far too heavy, use the runner boys
5.) Be there early
6.) Wear steel toed shoes, no open toes

Of course we will be back next year for the bathroom project.



The rest of the weekend was pretty productive, we even enlisted some help from Joe's parents. All of the plaster and lathe has been removed from the interior of the kitchen walls. All of the trim for all of the doors and windows also has been removed. 2 out of the 3 major appliances now live in the dining room.

On tap for this week will be getting an electrician to come out and get the knob and tube out of here. No major injuries to report this week.

posted by Missy and Joe @ 5:56 PM