Kitchen Update!

THis is what the Kitchen looked like the day Mom went to pick up the 98 boxes!

 

 Here is what we have accomplished in 3 days of DEMOS (Note the Peeps took off Sunday and Canada Day)

 

THis upper cupboard set took the longest. 
Mom and Dean were totally unsure of HOW everything was put together. 

This is the End of Day 1

Here is looking up at the inside of the bulkheads that go all around the kitchen!

Mom says the bulkheads will have to stay! Good thing that she did NOT order up to the ceiling cupboards! This one, buts out into the room and will have something like decorative lighting! It is a great creative space now!

Day 2

The lower cupboards have been removed EXCEPT for Shirley!

Shirley Sinks were mostly made after WW2. Click this link for more about Shirleys! 

This is what the kitchen looks like the end of Day 2

Peninsula Being dismantled

 

Day 3 

Mom had to drive a friend to the airport in the big city so she missed all the excitement on the 3rd morning. Dean started off with the removal of the P-Trap and then Dean and Alex got the sink off the Cabinet and dragged Shirley into the backyard. Dean wanted to be extra careful as he is going to keep and restore her. 

 

Look at that! A BARE WALL! 

Once Shirley made it to the backyard, Dean started the Plumbing of the pipe. 

 THIS is the cause of the Kitchen being dismantled. there was a FORK stuck in the bend just behind that joint, where the pipe makes a 90 degree angle to go straight down to the basement. Dean pulled the fork and scooped and pushed a ton of debris, congealed grease and gunk out from above and flushed it out down below. The pipe is now clean as the day it was installed! No walls had to be destroyed! WHAT A RELIEF as it saved us DAYS of work. 

And here is what the kitchen looks like now!

THe next step is the raising of the floor under where the cupboards were  and the start of the Ikea assembly. I am sure there will be many HBO words as our ancient Mom tried to put the lego of the Ikea kitchen together. We will catch you up as we get a chance. In the meantime, Mom is off to enjoy the Canada Day Parade! 

 

98 Boxes!

The one last pieces of galvanised pipe in the house decided it absolutely MUST be replaced 5 weeks ago. It began to leak and that night, after wrapping flexseal around the leaking joint, Mom discovered that Ikea was opening a Kitchen Planning Store in the nearest big city (Kelowna), Mom called and made an appointment

Our house was built in 1956. Back then (like today) people in many rural areas had to buy things (like kitchen sinks) from catalogues (paper not virtual). And a "Shirley" was  purchased that way and was installed. 

Koz and Shirley

Shirley is a 70 year old 2 bowl sink with sideboards on a metal cabinet.  She needs to be refinished, she is rusting out (in spots), there are MANY, Many dents and chips and the pipe for the drain, goes through the back wall of the metal cupboard which connects to the galvanised pipe that has started to split and it is buried between the joists in the wall. to stop the leak, Mom wrapped the pipe with flex seal, but that is a short term solution. To fix the pipe, Shirley has to be removed, the pipes replaced and the wall will need some drywall repairs. 

With Ikea opening a kitchen Design location in Kelowna, and combined with the sink -- all the stars lined up and Mom (and Alex) figured this was the perfect time to remove the old cupboards and the peninsula and rework the kitchen. 

2 weeks ago, Mom went to Ikea and planned and bought all the things to replace all the old cupboards. 

Today, Mom and her friend Dean went to Kelowna to pick up the parts!

It looks like Dean is good at Truck Tetris!

 Dean figures he (and Mom and us guys) should be able to get the kitchen finished in 2 weeks. (Mom also has to get a grant written in that 2 weeks)! 

So we may fall behind in posting and visiting, but getting rid of that leaky drain pipe that has to be plunged every time the kitchen sink is used will be worth it! 

Mom will try her hardest to keep up the posts (and include the kitchen progress) as we KNOW you guys are all interested in seeing ME, Marvelous, learn how to be a #1 Renovator!