John & Colette’s Adventures

We are almost there with getting electrons where they need to go! The electrician breathed a big sigh of relief when I told him he could bypass 2 switches – one that controls a bunch of outlets (just about all of them) in the front room and one by the back door that turns on [...]

Our garage is a disaster area.

The island and stove went in yesterday. Well, the stove went partially in. The gas company comes next thursday to hook it up. We realized this morning that the end of the island facing the table is not finished right. We need to talk to Home Despot to get a new skin sent out. Our [...]

The kitchen is buzzing along. The electrician was having some fun getting everything in the right places. I had to have him move switches and outlets several times. He also had to come back and fix some wiring. When you used one of the switches to the overhead lights the circuit breaker would pop! But [...]

I found another pipe the previous cabinets were screwed into. This was just a vent pipe so that’s better, but still you would think they’d be able to find the studs. Above the stove it looks like a blind guy hung the old cabinets. There are drill holes about every 1″.

The electrician is coming this morning to move outlets, wire in the Tech Lighting Monorail light, wire in the outlets for the under cabinet lights and clean up some dumb wiring from the original builders (5 switches in the middle of a wall? Some of which control lights in other rooms? What were they thinking?). [...]

The kitchen remodel has begun! The guys are here tearing out the old cabinets and soffet (yay!). That soffet was built to withstand gale force winds! 2×6 construction and screwed/nailed into the studs. It wasn’t going anywhere. I just expected it to be 1×2′s framed under the ceiling drywall, but there’s no drywall above it. [...]