November 17, 2008

Eye Candy Edition

We’re moving right along on the first floor. Taping and spackling. Seems to go on forever. We’re looking for a semi-functional first floor by Thanksgiving, and it seems we should make it. Plumbing inspection is a few days, which is what will make or break us.

Still waiting for the shower glass upstairs from Brooklyn Kitchens and Baths. Ten weeks and counting.

Pix here:
http://www.pbase.com/dentontay/appliances

But you know you’re making progress when the eye candy shows up. In our case, that’s the 48" 6 burner Wolf stove. Six hundred fifty pounds of beauty. This is what it’s all about, baby! (And that's the refrig in the background box).

This, plus the hood, is all we need for Thanksgiving! The hood should be up any day. We were worried about the hood conflicting with the AC duct, but there’s enough room for both.

The kitchen floor is tiled and ready to go. I know a lot of folks feel wood is the way to go in a kitchen; experience tells me differently. What can we say? Photos at:
http://www.pbase.com/dentontay/image/106060127
http://www.pbase.com/dentontay/image/106060134

Meanwhile we’re moving ahead on the bathroom.
http://www.pbase.com/dentontay/image/106060117
http://www.pbase.com/dentontay/image/106060133

We used more tile than we thought on the second floor bath, and the 4" square tile we need for the walls has been discontinued (we apparently used too much on the second floor). But we’ve arranged to have some 13" square tile cut down to the size we need. It will just take a few days.

The first floor has no room in the ceiling for AC ducts, unlike the second floor, so we’re doing soffits. And we’ve decided to put the air handler in the basement for the first floor. So we have some rather large ductwork happening. The supply and return ducts will be routed in the same soffit in the DR, next to the kitchen.
http://www.pbase.com/dentontay/image/106060122
http://www.pbase.com/dentontay/image/106060124

Here’s the AC ducting pretty much boxed in.
http://www.pbase.com/dentontay/image/106060150

The oak floor was delivered today and should be completed in the next couple of days.

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