kitchen remodel 6.1

I went up into the attic and connected the interrupted power to the outlets on the west wall. It took a while, and sweat was running off my forehead, but I got it. One of the bulbs on my worklight burned out. Fortunately there was light coming in the access hole nearby, and there are two lights on it.

I was really wiped out after that. I was still sweating after a lukewarm shower. Cindy ran to the store to get me some Gatorade. I think that really helped. I was feeling almost back to normal after a couple of hours, so I went back up. I wasn't much fun putting on the now-cold, soaking wet clothes from earlier, but I don't have three sets of shorts and T-shirts for each day.

Once the power was back on for the refrigerator, I turned it off for the kitchen light. There's an outlet on that circuit that I had to remove so I could put its conduit through a hole, and mount the outlet in the wall before I drywall it. That circuit also controls the family room, so hopefully I can get that outlet mounted and turn the power back on soon.

Then I'll do drywall. Tomorrow morning before it gets too hot, I'll go back up in the attic and tackle another circuit.

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kitchen remodel 6.2

I mounted the electrical box. I was about to wire in the outlet when I realized that is done after the drywall is done. So I did the drywall. I was cutting the hole for the box with a pointy saw, when I got a spark, and the breaker tripped. :-)

So now drywall is complete on the west side except for one small piece. I was going to do the outlet on the north side, but in tracking down which breaker I need to flip, I got involved in mapping the circuits. I've forgotten which controls the west wall, with the fridge.

There's a circuit that controls: garage light, garage outlet, garage door opener, front yard light, radon fan, laundry room light, extra bathroom light and outlet, back hall light, one basement light, basement stairs light and back door light. There's another circuit that has only the two outlets in the laundry room. There's another circuit that controls one single outlet, near the kitchen, but not the lights and their switch in the same box. And I don't know what circuit that one is on. It's crazy.

Anyway, everything seems to take twice as long as I expect. That's not too bad - usually it's three times as long. So I didn't start on extending the conduit for the ceiling lights, or look at the other two conduits there. That's tomorrow's job. I really need to complete that because if I don't, I only have a couple of hours on Sunday that I can work on it. I'd like to go back to work on Monday.

By the way, I keep writing out the next day's plans, to help me keep it straight in my head, not because I think people want to hear me repeat myself. :-)

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kitchen remodel pictures

Here are all the photos to present...

I forgot to take good "before" pictures. I remembered only after we had the doors off the uppers, and not in good light.


North and east walls. Cindy took the stuff we use often into the dining room, and the rest of it to the basement.


West side of the room. Cabinets are original, plywood. I think there was a remodel done, probably in the late eighties or early nineties. New countertops and hardware at that time, maybe flooring too (otherwise newer). The range came with the house, fridge is ten years old, and dishwasher less. The dining room is through that doorway, beyond the pantry door.

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