Blogging has been light lately, mostly because of the flu and because what little energy I could scrape together has gone to this project. I've put a new photo album together for it -- you'll find it in the right sidebar, http://happycarpenter.blogs.com/photos/kitchen_yellow_house/. There are still a few pieces of trim to make & install, and a coat of sealer over the bead board, brown paint for the baseboard and bookcase trim, replace the electrical plates, and voila!
I've been contracting for almost 25 years, but had up until recently managed to avoid almost all plumbing and electrical, so this job presented some challenges:
- First under-sink plumbing (hard)
- First insta-hot installation (easy)
- First GFI receptacle (easy)
- First gas piping (easy)
That's me with the celebratory bottle of champagne after the cooktop went back in and was declared operational! Everything's working, nothing is leaking, and The Happy Wife, is. Now if I could just kick this lingering chest cold and get back to my training...