Wednesday

Wednesday arrived and Mike came though with the tools and it was on. Got to love a good power tool. Who ever remodeled this place should get a swift kick in the rear for their construction habits. First off the apartment walls are designed so that there is a 1 foot gap on the top of the non-load bearing walls for wires and such. They had 2 wires from the electrical box that they did not bother to pass though top plate they just cut out the Sheetrock and plastered over them. Good thing I noticed that before I cut the wall to ceiling sheet rock joint. The whole place has a 1/4 inch plaster gypsum board with about 1/4 inch of plaster and 1/8 inch of Spackle. What a heavy mess this made as I cut it down and bagged it up. I could have gotten away with 2 bags it it were just Sheetrock but not that lucky.

Just one of the last remaining plaster/Sheet rock piles left to bag

See that haze in the air that the camera picked up. Ya that's demo dust what a mess I made today.

So here is a picture of the finished demo. I cut off all the sheet rock on the living room side of the wall because I did not want to have to match the weird thickness when I put new sheet rock up. Now its just short of 1 panel and I am done. I love when a plan works out like that. You can also see my cut bench in the picture. Used two of the junk cabinets as saw horses worked quite well. Just the right height.

The Scrap wood pile. Its not to big at this time but I have no idea what I am going to do with it. Going to have to cut it up into 4 foot lengths and put it in my escape and find a place to throw it away.
Wow good thing I was wearing those gloves when the Sawzall caught a nail and kicked back. My thumb got smashed and I took a good whack on the finger with the blade. Safety first.

Here is a picture of me starting to build our base cabinet enclosure. The space in the Kitchen is tight it only allows for 12 inch deep cabinets on the wall adjoining the living room. So we are building in a 30 inch long 24 inch deep cabinet.

So here is a picture of our counter support/cabinet enclosure. The kitchen had no space for a cabinet with a drawer so we decided to put a big cabinet in and build a wall around it. It keeps the flow of the wall and also most important important it is going to be the support for the counter. We are doing a dark ubatuba granite for counter tops and that stuff is heavy. You also cant have an over hang of more than 12 inches of granite because it gets to weak and could break. So this encasement is going to allow us to put in triangle braces for the counter.

This Picture here shows the over hang of the said granite to the wall. It is a 3 foot gap from the end of the granite to the wall. The Granite will also overhang into the living room about 12 inches giving us a good size bar/ table to eat at.

Here is a Picture of the encasement from the kitchen. The 30x24x35 base cabinet will slide in and the counter will rest on it all with triangle supports.

Like all good home improvement worker the end of the day finishes with a thorough clean up of the work site. Nothing gonna be happening the next few days got to work to pay for this all.