Kitchen Renovations 1

There seems to be some special curse associated with home improvements, that whatever you try to accomplish keeps multiplying.

Today we are having the dishwasher delivered between 4:30 and 6:30pm. This is a monumental experience for us.

So, this morning and afternoon we are making some preparations for the rest of the new kitchen plan. We have to have the cabinets and dishwasher in place when they come and make the measurements for the new countertop on Thursday.

David is sick with a cold and still working very hard at this.

In attempting to remove the cabinet between the sink and the fridge (this is where the dw will go) we had to move the fridge and take off some baseboard. Surprise! The drywall and insulation are rotted away at the base of the wall, probably from the numerous water backups we have had over the decades.

This is what happened when we took the baseboard off.

This is when David started removing the damaged drywall.

Off to the store to get supplies: drywall, concrete (might as well fix the cracks at the front and back door outside thresholds with the extra), insulation, assorted tools and the wood to make new endwalls to the kitchen base cabinet area - the areas between the sink and dw, and the dw and fridge.

This has taken all day. Now we are at a stopping point waiting for the dishwasher! We have to make a path to the laundry room to store the dw in there until we have its new home properly prepared.