21st - Cabinets begin

Ok.. he was in LAS VEGAS on Monday!! But wasn't there to fritter away all my hard-earned money; at least not that he would admit; he claimed his son drives some sort of car rally. The contractor was on vacation on Monday, and had asked his two guys who were at our home on Fri installing the doors, to let me know they wouldn't be here until Tuesday morning.. unfortunately they didn't let me know.

He had their copy of their jobsheet (told ya he was anal). It listed their work for the day, and all the things they were supposed to tell me (which they didn't). Ok.. all explained.

So.. The cabinets are on the go, which is great. The kitchen designers popped in to say hi. There was a problem that the cabinet manufacturer not finishing off the edge of the cabinets properly, for the cabinets which had fancy footboards. They will order extra footboard and construct it themselves.

The kitchen designers made a mistake which the contractors discovered. The wall-oven cabinet is the same depth as the floor/base cabinet.. the problem is the granite on the floor/base cabinet will stick out 1" beyond the oven-cabinet. It will look weird, and need special edge work on the granite. The alternative is for the contractor to attach extra timber to the cabinets to bring them out 2", so the granite doesn't overhang into the oven cabinet. That seems the (cheapest and) best solution, as they already have matching board painted the right colour. The problem is there will be a visible 'seam' along the center of the oven cabinet (the top bit will be covered by the overhead cabinet. They called the designers, who said they had 'designed it' that way; the called the head contractor who said to push out the oven cabinet. I think leaving it as designed would look silly, and be more expensive to fix the granite countertop later.

The Concrete dudes did come yesterday to install some reinforcement for the concrete (they snuck in and out).

The siding will be done in a few weeks.. the dude doing the siding is working on something else right now, and the main contractor wants him to finish the job, rather than one of his other guys. Understandable.

So its all good again. Especially as we can actually walk around in the living room (some of the boxes are empty now). It was getting very tiring dodging all those huge boxes.

:-)