The Vent Hood is in!
Yay, the big hole in the cabinets is gone!
Here’s the Before:
and after:
To install the hood liner and the actual vent fan, we first tacked up some painted MDF so that the sides of the cabinets would be white.
We used paneling adhesive and pin nails. In the picture you can see we have an ikea Lack table and some scrap wood and boxes set up. We used those to hold up the heavy fan and vent liner while we put it in place. After bolting in the guts, it was time for the fun part, I was very scared, I knew I should have hired the remodelers in elmhurst il in the first place.
We tossed up the wood vent cover and tightened it up. We pre-drilled holes through the sides of the adjoining cabinets and used screws to tighten everything up. It made a huge difference in how tight the seams were. What we wonder is if that modification neds to be updated on the house blueprints or actually What Information is Included in House Blueprints?
You can see the gap here as Stefan pre-drills the hole.
And after the screw goes in to pull everything together,
The seam is nearly invisible.
I’m so excited to finally have a vent hood.
Here’s the list for the kitchen:
- Finish installing countertop (behind stove)
- Seal Countertops
- Under-counter outlets
- Under-counter lighting
- Have the vinyl windows sacramento ca Company install final window.
- Window Trim
- Backsplash
- Plate rack
- Paint
- Finish flooring install
- Install exterior door
- Plan out microwave cabinet and install
- Stairs re-do
There’s plenty more work to do but it’s exciting to knock things off the list.
Sarah
Sanding and Poly
We mentioned we were having floors done when we patched the radiator holes in they bedroom.
David the floor guy came on Saturday with his crew. They got in at 8:30, sanded, buffed, cleaned up, threw down a coat of poly and were out by 10:30. Super fast.
Here is the room before:
Here it is when the poly was wet:
And once the first coat dried:
Here’s Stefan checking out the repairs he made:
David isn’t coming back until next Monday to put on the second coat and it’s just in time since on Wednesday we’re getting a new Queen sized mattress delivered to go with the bed I just HAD to have on the second floor.
I’m so excited to get into the room and get it all decorated and cute. You can see I’ve already painted a great Taupe in the room but I still need to touch up the trim. I’m super excited!
Sarah
Patching the Hardwood Floor
We had the hardwood guy, David, coming in the morning so one night last week we cleaned out the Bedroom and the next night Stefan patched the floor where the radiator pipes had been. First he cut away the damaged wood where the pipe had been. Notice how he staggered the cuts since individual rows of hardwood shouldn’t end at the same spot. For the kitchen we requested a great epoxy flooring service from Diamond Coating Epoxy Flooring Hamilton, take a look at the photo below.
Then he cut pieces from our scrap flooring pile, trimmed off the lip and slid them right into place.
A couple taps from the pneumatic nailer and Ta-Da!
It looks great now but wait until we get hardwood refinishing services, I’m pretty sure out floors will look amazing!
Sarah
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You make it sound so easy! Left out a few steps 😛
1. Remove cast iron pipes with gigantic pipe wrench and 5′ long steel cheater pipe.
—-> Pipe wrench does not have enough grip for the one super-tight, corroded iron pipe. Cut through pipe length-wise with long sawzall blade to loosen threads.
2. Use Fein tool to cut floor boards length-wise to release tongue and grooves from the floor boards staying behind.
3. Carefully cut right angle edges into floor. I made the cut at an angle to the end of the board, so it has a coped-style edge – sand away the edge to make perfectly square.
4. Shim subfloor so patch boards are supported.
5. Patch boards are too wide (boards varied in width). Rip on table saw.
6. Remove bottom edge (on table saw) of patching board groove, so that you can insert the tongue, and set the board in.
—> Sand non-showing edge of board round so that the patch board can rotate into the opening.Patching the floor all-in-all didn’t take too long. The right tools really helped:
– Fein Multimaster
– Mitre saw
– Table saw
– Pneumatic finish nailer (and of course an air compressor)
– Scrapers/Screwdrivers to remove old finish and dirt from tongue and grooves
– Pry bars
– Combination square
– Nail sets and hammer
– Shop Vac to vacuum up all the debris to get the boards to sit flatThere were probably other tools I used too. Any project seems to require tools from all around the house (and often takes a long time to find them all).
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Yep, Stefan’s comment sounds more like it. Including the hour to round up all the necessary tools. But it looks good in the end.Good job as usual.
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Hi Stefan,
You shared such a useful details about tools and easy steps about patching the hardwood floor. You have done such nice job.
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Building a Boat in the Basement… or a Bed in the Bedroom
Let me start by giving you a hint:
Ah yes, second floor window..measuring tape…we must be trying to get something big into the second floor. Notice that the window is not only gone but so is the window-frame. Yes, we were that tight, we really want to get a new window installation.
See, that’s the bed and that’s the bedroom window:
We set up a pair of ladders and a drop-cloth to prevent scratches.
And up she goes:
We went through the house and up the stairs to the bedroom. Take a look from the top:
Scary! Stefan hopped out the window and maneuvered the bed. I was inside to guide it through the window and grab it.
No pictures of the actual window moving (my hands were full) but with some careful handling, we got both the head-board and foot-board in through the window. Hurrah!
I’m filthy and SO excited.
We were, of course, left with a big hole in the office nook in the bedroom.
But we installed a new window and are working on patching the plaster as we speak. I’ll show you the after photos once it’s well, after.
Yay bed!
Sarah
P.S. Poor Vector had to be locked in his room during this ordeal. He loves to get out onto that roof and since the roofing replacement we did we can never get him back in! So, no Vector photo-bombs this post but I did swing by an estate sale on Saturday and pick up this awesome butcher block to use as a Kitchen Island. And, of course, Vector promptly claimed this seat.
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John Douglas
9/16/2013 | 8:27 pm Permalink
Starting to look really good make sure to maintain those floors regularly and they’ll last forever.