The kitchen begins to take shape
Friday, January 19, 2024
The kitchen renovation project has come a long way since my last post about it. After we removed the old cabinets and backsplash, not only did a lot of the plaster come off the walls, but we also discovered that the sink’s drainage pipe was cutting one of the corners, getting in the way of where we wanted to put one of our new cabinets. The old cabinet that occupied that spot had been built around it.
We already had a contractor agree to update the electrical outlet locations and install the new cabinets and appliances, so we asked them to move the drainage pipe back into the wall too. When they took apart the old cast iron pipe, they found it had corroded to the point where it was about 90% clogged. And so some more extensive pipe replacements took place, along with clearing out the pipe to the sewer as far as the snake would allow.
Of course, this led to needing to remove and repair an extensive portion of the walls too. They ended up also spackling and priming all of the walls and ceiling when all was said and done. This made things quite a bit more expensive, which I don’t love. Nevertheless, the contractors did a great job every step of the way and ultimately, once the kitchen is done and we’re moved into the house, we’re going to be happy to have made all of these improvements.
Now that the walls and ceiling have been primed (twice!), the room is ready for us to paint it. We already have some paint picked out, and will be working on that this weekend. Hopefully next weekend we’ll be able to put in the new floors. These things are easy enough to do ourselves, so at least we’ll save some money that way.
