island plumbing awesomeness

I bet y'all thought I'd never update again. I haven't given up, just been mega busy playing shows (and learning music for them). So...

I realized that I couldn't finish installing the cabinets until I had the plumbing for the island/kitchen sink madness finished, so I bit the bullet (and my checkbook) and had the mess above installed. My handyman wasn't up for taking on something of this magnitude, so I used the plumbers who ran the gas lines in my house back when I moved in. They're amiable guys, and pretty reasonable price-wise, but I learned the hard way that they're not very good with right angles and straight lines and such. This might not have been an issue normally, as my picky self would've been in their faces the whole time waving a T-square, but as bad luck would have it, I had a rehearsal that went until 4:AM the night before (it wasn't scheduled this way, and yes, I was pissed) AND I had an audition to sub for another band. Not only did I have to leave plumber dudes at my place for much of the time, I had a blazing headache from lack of sleep the night before, so I was kinda out of it.

As a result, they cut the channels in my concrete crooked (there's actually a larger one not visible in the pic), as well as hacking up my wall in a decidedly non-parallel fashion. The drain pipe itself as well as the fancy vent (the white thingee at the top) are also a little crooked, though it may not matter. If it does, they's redoin' it. They also ran a pipe from the above location back to the wall where my monster refrigerator will live so I can install a reverse-osmosis filter under the sink and have osmosinated water go to the icemaker/water dispenserator (I love how my blog doesn't even attempt to spell correct my made-up word awesomeness). Reverse-osmosis filtered water is a good thing because the water in this place tastes as if it sloshed around inside an old truck tire. But they managed to install the plastic wall box for that guy crooked too. At least they were consistent. Finally, they also ran romex inside conduit under the slab so the island will have power. This is mainly because the dishwasher is gonna live in it, but I'll probably be all slick and install some power outlets so I can use the juicer that I don't own, or more likely, plug in the laptop that I do own, which frequently has a dead battery. I already converted an orphaned outlet in the wall to a junction box, so the power is live (and safely electrical taped 'til I need it). You can see the former outlet in the pics below- it has a little gray cover in the first pic.

Tonight I set about patching most of the massive hole they had to make in the wall. In theory, I didn't really have to because the cabs will cover all this mess (and this isn't an outside wall), but my little brain just couldn't accept having a 37"x16" hole in the wall, even if it wasn't gonna be visible. This also afforded me the opportunity to realign the plastic water outlet box behind the refrigerator so it was like, parallel and stuff. I might be nuts, because unless I get a deal on the clear refrigerator previously used aboard Wonder Woman's clear jet, no one will ever see it,  but hey, crooked shit drives me batty. Here's your obligatory before 'n' after hotness. In the top pic you can see the drywall saw sticking out because I had to recut the entire thing so it would be straight- it's really hard to cut a piece of drywall when the area you're patching isn't relatively square (or rectangular, as it were).

I even got all super deluxe and mesh-taped and mudded the seams. It looks pretty good in the pic, but in reality I just slobbed on mud pretty quick and dirty, because when the seams are large and not super even, it's impossible to do it in one application because the mud shrinks as it dries. It's far easier to do it in stages- mud, sand, let it dry overnight, repeat a couple times.

Enough on that. Most importantly, I need to get the trenches filled with concrete and polished. I spent a week trying to call the concrete floor guy, but he was out of town on vacation. I finally spoke to him today and he referred me to someone who can not only fill them in, but re-cut them a little larger so they'll actually be parallel with the walls. Of course, referral dude didn't pick up his phone, nor did he call me back, so I'll need to pester him 'til he calls. I'm noticing this is kind of how they do business here- (editorial alert!) for such an economically depressed area, you'd think people would be more anxious to take your money. My good friend John is renovating his house as well and he's noticed the same thing.

Following that magical bunny-love fest, I can install the rest of the cabs and (hallelujah!) have the refrigerator moved in. Installing the rest of the cabs is not a big deal; by and large it amounts to plopping four cabs on the floor next to each other and screwing 'em to each other with a little added wall support for the tall ones. The harder part is that I still have to carefully cut all the laminated mahogany trim pieces and affix them. This will be trickier. After that, I have to figure out exactly how to build the island, which I'll cover in another entry because this one has probably already tested the limits of everyone's attention span except my mom. Hi Rose.

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