My Remodel Thread

[black2002ls]

Here is where we are now. Tile completely installed!



I will grout it myself in the morning. Cabinet company will be back Tuesday to take care of the bench seat top. They will be leaving it raw and unattached so that I can stain it. Granite should also be in on Tuesday morning as well. Hopefully by the end of the week I can have the back splash in and the drywall finished up. I have some can lights to install, I just haven't mustered to courage to go through that process yet!

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[black2002ls]

Bench seat went in this morning, along with a new floor to ceiling cab with the spice rack and tray dividers. They retro'd the other two cabs and my tile is going in now!



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[onjacks]

I would Acid etch the floor and use a Good polymer modified thin set for the floor.

[black2002ls]

well, the granite company was scheduled to come by at 4 and measure, they still haven't arrived. So, I called my salesman for the company we use at work. Not sure why I didn't call them before to see if they could help me out. He is going to get with the rep in my area and see how soon that can get me taken care of. Hopefully the amount of business we do for them gets me a cheap install.

[black2002ls]

Tile will be going in on Saturday. Our tile punch guy from work is available and is going to lay it for $2/ft. I trust his work, and I don't have to do it, money well spent!

Granite is getting measured this afternoon. They originally gave a 5-10 day turnaround, I am hoping for something closer to 5 day. If I can have this thing put back together by the middle of next week I will be happy.

[black2002ls]

The backsplash needs to be pretty flat. Mastic goes down with a 1/16" or 1/8" v notch trowel...its a small trowel. I wouldnt expect perfection but if you have a vertical seam, I would want it floated at least once, preferrably twice. A horizontal seam taped/bed once as the tape goes in the factory depressed joint.

thinking about it...if its not a factor long edge joint, I would wanted it floated twice. I doubt you will have two panels coming together correctly

The bare drywall has a good bit of diselevation in refence to the old stuff.

I've got my drywall guy coming saturday to float it all out so that should cover it hopefully. I've got a 12" knife that I may work it a little to save them some work between now and then. My main concern was whether floating it with drywall mud was going to have an adverse effect on the mastic.

It looks like I will be doing the floor tile myself. Every tile contractor I talk to is 2 weeks out and we can't wait that long. I've got our kitchen and utility room tile ripped out.

Any suggestions on the best way to prep the slab? I didn't really do a thorough clean up the first time around and my tile came up pretty easily. I had one spot that broke free from the slab about 14 months after laying it. I got a hollow sound along a grout line.

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[8mpg]

The backsplash needs to be pretty flat. Mastic goes down with a 1/16" or 1/8" v notch trowel...its a small trowel. I wouldnt expect perfection but if you have a vertical seam, I would want it floated at least once, preferrably twice. A horizontal seam taped/bed once as the tape goes in the factory depressed joint.

thinking about it...if its not a factor long edge joint, I would wanted it floated twice. I doubt you will have two panels coming together correctly

[black2002ls]

Drawers are way better than cabinets. Id make them get the right cabinets.

We looked at it tonight. We will have everything swapped out but the 2 door base cabinet to the right of the stove. Logistics and our current inventory of kitchen gadgets made the most sense that way. We can always add pull outs later on.

So I did some painting tonight. Tryingvto get rid of the turquoise and get a feel for the final look.



And here is a sample of what it will all look like put together.




I have my drywall guy lined up to come out on Saturday and take care of the rest of the drywall repairs and float out the backsplash area a bit.

Am I asking for trouble having the splash area floated? Should I rely on the mastic to get it all flat?
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[8mpg]

Drawers are way better than cabinets. Id make them get the right cabinets.

[black2002ls]

After talking with the wife, the drawers are essential. The only place we were supposed to have a door/drawer combo on the base cabinets is to the right of the sink. We were supposed to get to 13" drawers to the left of the range and everything else was a bank of three drawers in those locations. In the floor to ceiling cabinet, we were supposed to get a spice rack pull out and then a door on the bottom for a tray divider cabinet.

I am going to try and push them to swap my raised panel ends for the bench seat in the bay window. The R/P ends are not essential, and the bench seat would make it that much more functional and allow us to tuck the table up closer to the windows when it is not in use.

Confirmed with the cabinet company just a bit ago, we are going to exchange the raised panel ends for the bench seat at the bay window. If they build it from the drawings, it will have a drawer on each end. I've asked them to send it out with a finished base and a raw top that I can stain.

[DON SVO]

Looking good, man!

[black2002ls]

Here is where we are now. Installers just left. They made the wrong cabinets. I didn't get the raised panel ends, or any of my pull outs. Not sure how I am going to procede from here. Whether it is havingvthem correct the errors, or leverage for the bench seat we wanted in the bay window.





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[black2002ls]

Oh, see the surprise I found in the sink side soffit? Instead of running the vent though the top plate, they turned it out through the wall. So, I am going to move it up, it will be inside of the cabinet and boxed out. Best solution with the current state of affairs. It will end up in the cab above the fridge.

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[black2002ls]

Here is where it stands:





You can kind of see the cabinet height 18" extension for the longer base cabinets on the stove side.

By the end of the day today I hope to have drywall repairs complete, ready for the cabinet install, and my bench seat in the bay window framed out

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[black2002ls]

Cabinets are out, floor is gone, soffits are ripped out. Tomorrow I have to frame the 18" 1/2 wall that will go behind our cabinet extension, move the dishwasher plug, and drywall repairs. That will have me ready for cabinet install.

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