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April 1, 2007

Construction Daily

This morning I began repositioning a kitchenette cabinet that I wasn't happy with. The cabinet over the sink got moved over the refrigerator, and now we're planning on installing a shelf over the sink for the microwave.

Shannon got over early and we got started on the kitchen in the tasting room. First order of business was to install the wall cabinets along the refrigerator wall. Having Shannon's help made this a lot easier than the downstairs! The wall cabinets went in pretty quickly, but once we started on the base cabinets it became apparent that they were going to be more challenging. Using my laser lever I was able to determine that the floor was slightly out of level, angling down a 1/4" from the refrigerator to the peak of the tasting bar curve. Thus I decided to mount the cabinet closest to the refrigerator directly on the floor, then shim up each successive cabinet. In addition, the HVAC subs had installed a floor vent right in the middle of two cabinets, so I had to custom cut the bottoms of those cabinets to ensure proper ventilation into the kitchen. Wouldn't have been too hard for them to ask "where are the cabinets going" but that just makes too much sense...

Shannon had to return home to the rental to relieve Memom and I continued placing cabinets and rough placing some appliances to get a feel for the tasting bar space. Due to the placement of another under-cabinet floor vent I had to re-design the layout of the wine coolers. It wasn't a big deal and the functionality still will work out really well. Finished up pretty late and decided to begin on the other wall cabinets in a few days.

Daily hours (S&S combined) = 18
Total hours = 362

Check out the pics.

Posted by Stephen at April 1, 2007 11:11 PM