Day 3 February 17

Well, when does anyone ever complete EVERYTHING on their list? This may just be the theme of this kitchen remodel. While we didn’t get everything completed as planned, I’d still call it a successful work day.

The momentum seriously slowed down today. With practically all the demo completed the last two days, this morning concluded the demo after we removed the ceiling drywall in the kitchen. Since the pieces came off in large chucks, we didn’t really need the wheel barrel, instead I just carried piles straight to the designated burn pile.

 After cleaning up that mess, it was refrigerator time. HA! Man can you talk about a bitch of a job. I would like to say that David and I did exceptionally well not biting each other’s heads off during this operation (believe me, it was taking all I could, and I’m sure David as well, to filter what we were thinking in our heads). I loaded the contents of the frig into two bins and took them to downstairs (that’s when not having much in the frig is a good thing). After taking off the doors to allow clearance of the basement opening, we strapped it onto a dolly we borrowed from our neighbors, and down we attempted. We got to the middle landing and that’s where it didn’t go quite as planned. We didn’t have the space to get to the landing and then make the 90 degree turn, so we “Assessed the Situation” and did as followed. David pulled it back to the top, removed the dolly, and then we man handled it to the landing. After both of us getting squished in the process, we managed to get it turned, leaving us with some space to load her onto the dolly again. I know, by now my brother is sadly disappointed in our ridiculous effort to move an appliance. Believe me Danny, I was wishing you and your muscles were here about then :o) We strapped her back in and safely plopped her in the basement. We’ve agreed that the refrigerator has found its permanent home, at least while we’re still living here.

I stayed in the basement and cleaned the refrigerator while David was continuing on removing electrical. I finished putting the last touches on our foe kitchen, and joined David. At this point it really got slow as we played seek-and-find electrical sources. My favorite quote of the day came from David, “So instead of me electrocuting myself every time, could you get the voltage meter in the garage?” I had a little chuckle walking to the garage as I pondered why he wasn’t using it from the beginning. The rest of the day was filled with me flipping breakers on and off and David confirming or denying power. Yah, let’s just say I was a little bored at that point and got to sweeping again. I’m getting really good at sweeping :o)

David goes back to work tomorrow so not much will get done during the day since I was not gifted with his DIY/engineer brain to plan all the electrical and plumbing. I plan on being able to get small odd jobs done during the day and pick up some speed when David comes home in the evenings. Here’s to a solid weekend of gettin’ stuff done!

-Cleanse complete