Tuesday, March 07, 2006
New TownHouse Renovation - Day 8 (3.04.06)
Saturday
pics: Day 8 Photos
Goals: Finish getting ready for wood floor install. Which means removing flooring from kitchen and dining room, removing kitchen cabinets, removing the rest of the floor trim and cleaning up the mess.
We get a decent 10:30ish start which was caused by our late Friday night painting marathon. Our good friend Justin was all about helping us out this weekend since his lovely wife Hannah was out of town and he had jack and shit to do.
We stopped to get some beverages since we expected a house full this weekend. My brother was on his way from Phoenix with the load of flooring with an anticipated arrival time of 2pm. Justin actually beat us to the Townhouse, and let me tell you, we found out over the course of Saturday that he is one ass kicking hard worker. He impressed the hell out of everybody and saved us a lot of time and work. He's a friggin honorary starr in our book.
We started by clearing the kitchen. And trying to figure out how to remove the cabinets. We decided on the blunt force method of cabinet removal. We went to work on removing the countertops first, a bunch of prying and pounding got the left side off, and then we discovered that the "L" portion of the counter (that attatches to the sink) was held together by some sort of metal plates that did wonders on my recipricating saw. We then decided to unhook all the plumbing under the sink and dishwasher. Some of the connectors looked like something out of a 1970's outhouse, so I am glad we are replacing them. Speaking of the 1970's, something must have died in the garbage disposal around 1972, because it stunk up the kitchen horribly.
We managed to get the rest of the lower cabinets out and then decided to remove the linoleum flooring to prepare for the hardwood. This stuff was like iron bonded to the floor and the process was slow going. We decided to break for lunch, while Joyce went to get us some more crowbars to help in removing the floor. After some tasty egg salad, I got a call from my brother and he was about an hour outside of town.
Joyce returns and we go to work on the floor. We get about half of it up before bro shows up. Then we realize we can lay the hardwood right on top of it because the linoleum is so thin. Joyce departs and Bob and I head out to buy some underlay for the flooring. Rena and Justin decide to handle the upper cabinets when we are gone. Bob and I head to Ikea to pick up the backing since it has a decent price on the stuff. When we get back, Rena and Justin have removed all of the upper cabinets, the tall cabinet, the oven and cleaned up the kitchen mess. They rocked hard when we were gone.
We immediately get to work laying flooring and get a nice assembly line system going; Rena and Justin pounding the connectors, me running up and down the stairs to get boxes of flooring and cutting pieces and Bob pounding the stuff into the floor. We call it quits at around 9:00 to save the neighbors eat our CPK and head home.
All in all, the last two days we have gotten a ton of stuff done.
pics: Day 8 Photos
Goals: Finish getting ready for wood floor install. Which means removing flooring from kitchen and dining room, removing kitchen cabinets, removing the rest of the floor trim and cleaning up the mess.
We get a decent 10:30ish start which was caused by our late Friday night painting marathon. Our good friend Justin was all about helping us out this weekend since his lovely wife Hannah was out of town and he had jack and shit to do.
We stopped to get some beverages since we expected a house full this weekend. My brother was on his way from Phoenix with the load of flooring with an anticipated arrival time of 2pm. Justin actually beat us to the Townhouse, and let me tell you, we found out over the course of Saturday that he is one ass kicking hard worker. He impressed the hell out of everybody and saved us a lot of time and work. He's a friggin honorary starr in our book.
We started by clearing the kitchen. And trying to figure out how to remove the cabinets. We decided on the blunt force method of cabinet removal. We went to work on removing the countertops first, a bunch of prying and pounding got the left side off, and then we discovered that the "L" portion of the counter (that attatches to the sink) was held together by some sort of metal plates that did wonders on my recipricating saw. We then decided to unhook all the plumbing under the sink and dishwasher. Some of the connectors looked like something out of a 1970's outhouse, so I am glad we are replacing them. Speaking of the 1970's, something must have died in the garbage disposal around 1972, because it stunk up the kitchen horribly.
We managed to get the rest of the lower cabinets out and then decided to remove the linoleum flooring to prepare for the hardwood. This stuff was like iron bonded to the floor and the process was slow going. We decided to break for lunch, while Joyce went to get us some more crowbars to help in removing the floor. After some tasty egg salad, I got a call from my brother and he was about an hour outside of town.
Joyce returns and we go to work on the floor. We get about half of it up before bro shows up. Then we realize we can lay the hardwood right on top of it because the linoleum is so thin. Joyce departs and Bob and I head out to buy some underlay for the flooring. Rena and Justin decide to handle the upper cabinets when we are gone. Bob and I head to Ikea to pick up the backing since it has a decent price on the stuff. When we get back, Rena and Justin have removed all of the upper cabinets, the tall cabinet, the oven and cleaned up the kitchen mess. They rocked hard when we were gone.
We immediately get to work laying flooring and get a nice assembly line system going; Rena and Justin pounding the connectors, me running up and down the stairs to get boxes of flooring and cutting pieces and Bob pounding the stuff into the floor. We call it quits at around 9:00 to save the neighbors eat our CPK and head home.
All in all, the last two days we have gotten a ton of stuff done.
# posted by Tony Starr @ 12:00 AM 
