And most everything is in except the microwave installation and the vent work.
It’s looking great. Lowes is going to fix everything that’s wrong without charging us anything extra, even taking back the largest cabinet (with no drawers) and giving us one with drawers.
We have done all the trim painting, or Jane has, and we are headed for the finish line. We’re getting cabinet tops somewhere around the 27th of December, and we hope the amended cabinet pieces will get here before the 27th, or that could slip a bit. We are looking at finishing the tile work somewhere before the 15th January, and we only started in September…
It’s looking really good. We’re still missing one drawer front, one kneehole (desk) veneer, the right cabinet with drawers, two doors for the cabinet across the aisle, and we haven’t yet installed the microwave or the toekick plates (baseboard), plus 2 filler strips for places the gap is a fraction of an inch—instead of flush—but we are in good shape. Countertops, sink and faucet install (we have both) and the backsplash tiles, and then a little fix on the food-pantry door frame (which is like an inch out of true) and we wil be DONE!
If there’s any way you can put the faucet and hoses on the sink and fasten it in before you place the sink on its base, it will save you much banged heads and crawling about trying to wedge yourselves in places no grown human was meant to be. Just make sure you install the faucet facing the right way. I thought I was clever putting mine on the sink before it got lifted into place on the new cabinets. Turned out I put the faucet on backwards, and only figured it out when the handles turned the wrong way…
For some reason, that story about the little engine that could popped into my mind . . . (I think I can–I think I can –).
Yowie! You’re in the home stretch now, about to reach the top of the hill. Hang in there! (I swear it’s been like Bren + Ashid walking back to Najida from the Marid!)
@BCS thewolery(at)suddenlink.net
The chap doing the counter measurements hauled the new sink away with him. It’s an undermount, irregular shaped sink, so they will fasten it to the counter slab, or prepare holes that make that possible; and the faucet will have a separate hole penetrating the countertop itself…they said those holes are standard so that is no sweat. Hope they get it right!
Ah, definitely no user-serviceable parts, then. 🙂 Drilling holes in granite is above my pay grade.