810 Kitchen Remodel

Week 5

Week 5 has come and gone and not a lot of physical progress has been made. We were busy meeting with outside consultants who just verified that we are nutso. Electrician Number 2 came out, we shall call him Ty Pennington, because that is what he looked like. He was very nice and told us that 3/4 of the kitchen electric is no problem. The problem is in the wall that we want to demo and the existing knob and tube circuits. So we parted ways and waited for a quote, of .....$1400.00 pending no major snaffu's. Well all know that is not possible.

So trying to digest that, the next day came the window guy. Window guy was also very nice and the cats loved him and all of his mini window samples. So again we go through the outline of projected scope and wait for the quote. Joe has the numbers but I am sure that it is still too much. So we will go with the good ole order from HD and install ourselves. Breaking it to the cats is going to be the hard part.

The plumbing is so close to being done I can almost feel the water under the new faucet. As we speak Joe is reassembling the upstairs bathroom from its plumbing update. Now the only thing left is the supply lines in the basement to the kitchen sink. This will be addressed this weekend because it is producing a pretty substantial leak into a bucket below. We were trying to hold onto the use of the kitchen sink as long as possible and those days are coming close to an end.

On a side plumbing project, the porno toilet is leaking too. Where from we have no idea, but the carpet in front is soaked. Contractor John is hooking us up with a replacement toilet, that is if they separate the tank from the bowl to get it into the Acura. There will be no plumbing untouched when this project is done. Joe's arm is healing slow but sure. The grimace on his face when band-aid removal meets arm hair is priceless. Tables are turned now, and he had so much fun poking my bruise.

This has nothing to do with the Kitchen remodel, but worth mentioning because it only happens to us. This past Friday, a few close pals were enjoying a few delicious Cinderellas at Brazenhead, well I was, the boys had Guinness. Along side us was a reunion of some sort, I may call them engineers, for Ohio Northern, and no it wasn't John, Joe Y. Or Cousino. But alas, another crazy very drunken fool, who John witnessed throwing up in the urinal and proclaiming the need to fart by his hair holding friend. This dude was so drunk he could hardly stand, it was only 9ish roughly in the pm. Of course, all we do is stare at dude, knocking his head into the wall and then onto the table and just loosing all sense of anything. Then the unexpected happened, he stood up in attempt to leave the bar and started to whiz his pants in the middle of the Brazenhead happy hour crowd. To our amazement the wet spot just grew and grew right before our eyes, and that was not just the tears of pure entertainment clouding our view. We still can't believe that we witness such a show in a high class establishment. Of course we will be back this Friday to finish celebrating May birthdays. Cheers to another unbelievable moment of not working on the kitchen.

Foreman Number 1, Dad Socie will be coming down this weekend to mentor the kitchen remodel, mainly the electrical. Food Mom Socie will be providing Meals on Wheels to all workers on the site. Come for learning, stay for beer and slave labor. This is an open invite to anyone who wants a front row seat and sneak peek to Week 6 Kitchen Remodel.

posted by Missy and Joe @ 8:42 PM