810 Kitchen Remodel

Week 22

A lesson in coordination and communication comes this week. Joe met with the countertop installer out at the house this week. What comes of this meeting is the following: 1.) He is not available until late October or November. (I communicate that this is far too long) 2.) He cannot even give us a ballpark estimate of how much installation is going to cost. (I communicate to Joe that this is shady) So we dreadfully await the estimate to come back this week. This leads us to our next coordination issue.

An alternate countertop option. So we go to the "Other Big Box Hardware Retailer" which shall be unnamed, similar to Voldemort. With a kitchen sketch in our hands outlining exactly the square footage, linear inches, etc etc in our hand we go to the kitchen department. We survey alternate counter options for at least 15mins, with no assistance. Then a less than eager employee, we shall call "Not to Sharp Sally", came over and asked if we needed any help. We went through the usual rotation of questions of delivery, lead time, installation etc. The hardest question come to find out was "What is the thickness of a solid surface countertop?" Or exchange went something like this:

Us:"What is the thickness of a solid surface countertop?"
Sally: "This thick" (referring to the instore sample counter)
Us: "What is that dimension?"
Sally:"Right here, this thick. (Again pointing to the counter)
Us:" Yes, we see the counter, how thick is that, 1 1/4"?
Sally:" Well the backsplash is all the same, this thick (Again, pointing)
Us:" Do you have a tape measure, so we can measure the thickness?"
Sally" I think so, but you can see the thickness right here (pointing)
Us:"Thanks, Sally. Where are your shotguns?"

Sweet Jesus. Upon further investigation on our own, which included going to the tool department to get our own measuring device, we found that the solid surface countertop is 1 1/2" thick. In case you cannot visualize the pointing to the store sample to get an accurate dimension.

We also worked on the dining room today. The chair rail and the crown molding have been taken down. Now there is a ring of drywall patch circling the dining room. Our nemesis, plaster, has struck again, where there are random holes in the wall where it decided to just crumble at the slightest touch, some places randomly fell apart, no assistance needed. So there is a series of patches being applied before it can be primed and painted. We are painting it the same color as the kitchen. We will revisit the chair rail detail at a later time. We will be putting crown molding back up, with the assistance of John and his pneumatic nailer.

On another ER related note, appendicitis strikes again! One degree of separation this time. Cousin Heidi (the Bride to be Oct 28) had her appendix taken out this morning, after attending a Tiger's game yesterday. Get Well, Joe will sell you some drugs if needed.

posted by Missy and Joe @ 7:39 PM