Rehab 4470 - Kitchen is making progress

Making Progress with Kitchen!

Kitchen is making real progress over the past week.  Between the old tile being removed, electric work completed and me getting back into town (finally) and getting the walls patched it's shaping up quickly.

Ripped the old tile up

The tile turned out to a bigger job than we thought.  Jan found a couple of guys to rip it up in one day. Problem is the amount of thin set that was used to mortar the tile in originally is mostly still stuck to the floor.  It's a nightmare and now the floor needs to be floated to level it out since the amount of old thin set is going to be hard to tile over.  At least when i'ts done the new 20 x 20 tile will look great against the new cabinets and granite counter top.

Getting rid of the old tile is another problem in and of itself.  There's 20+ boxes in the garage and although we can put it on the curb the boxes are heavy.  Guess we'll have to get more boxes and make them lighter loads.

The rewiring of the kitchen is complete

Lou came by today and finished up the rewiring of the kitchen.  The wires that were running down the wall between the kitchen and dining room were either moved to the backsplash to the left of the sink for the disposal and under cabinet lights on that side.  The other we put on the far wall between the kitchen and dining room.   He also installed a GFI outlet on the stove side of the kitchen.  The phone wire was saved and an outlet on the remaining wall sheet rocked and spackled over.

To rewire did mean some wall damage to get the wires down the drain pipe column next to the sink.  Luckily it did not take too long and Lou was good about saving the pieces he cut out making it quicker to repair.

Kitchen wall repair almost done

It took all of a day but I got all the walls fixed and the first layer of joint compound on everything before the end of the day.  Tomorrow lots of sanding and another coat of joint compound.  Keep up for a few days and it should be looking pretty good.  At this rate the kitchen will be ready for paint by the end of the week.  Maybe next weekend I'll get the floor floated before the cabinets go in next Monday.

Happy rehabbing..