Day 6-Snow Day, Slow Day

 


Feb. 4--

No "virtual" school--It's a snow day!

Today was the first day that Dave mostly worked alone at the house. Tyler left last night to get home ahead of the storm and with all the snow, Mary and Jim did not come in today.  He is still working to get walls ready to paint and door jams rebuilt. In between he worked on getting the wall in the bathroom ready for the new wall to go in. 

First he used his new self leveling laser to mark the wall and then he used a diamond blade to cut the wall. The wall on the left needs to stay in the new all bathroom and the wall on the right needs to come down. 

Something else he keeps working on....filling the dumpster with the pile from the garage.  It is almost all gone.

While Dave worked on the house, I kept working on getting all the correct measurements and drawings ready to submit to the city for building permits. 

Once those were submitted (via email due to Covid) this morning, I moved on to planning the kitchen so we can order cabinets.  Getting cabinets is going to take longer than anything else on the house at his point, so we want to be sure they are worth the wait. 

I researched several types and while the ones from Home Depot would be okay--they are not as high of quality and customizable for the price as what I would like. Today I explored RTA (Ready-to-Assemble) cabinets and Amish cabinet builders. 

I really like Barker Cabinets--they are made of high quality materials, customizable to the 1/4 inch and have all the pullouts, inserts, etc. that I want in a cabinet for a fraction of the price of already assembled cabinets. They also come painted or unpainted, so we can paint them with our own color in place if we want. The downside, they do not have a kitchen planner, so now I am learning to use Chief Architect to plan my own kitchen. 

Having a local Amish builder do the building for us is also a high quality and affordable way to go. Dave could add all the pullouts for me after they are built and we could have them painted or paint then ourselves. I have a call in to one of the Amish builders and I need to drive out and visit another. Perhaps by next week, I can figure out which one to go with.  (Dave built many of the cabinets in our current house and could build the cabinets for this house, but the house has so much work to do on it that he might never get around to building the cabinets--so waiting 12 weeks for someone else to build them sounds like a better plan)

My 2 builders from last night before Tyler left.

















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