Kitchen Renovations - week 3

[turquoisedude]

Well, it was a busy week in Ogden last week! The old kitchen floor was sagging pretty badly and I wasn't comfortable with installing 1200 pounds of turquoise steel and enamel, so we had to have it shored up. Here's the solution our contractor came up with

 

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And it worked! The old tile floor was removed and sent to the local dump, new subfloor installed, and this nice hardwood oak floor put in.

 

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Wait a minute, where's the fridge...

that had been living in the parlor for the past 8 months?

 

[turquoisedude]

And this goes where, now???

Our contractor was a bit puzzled about how exactly we were going to get this onto the wall... It took 4 of us, but we did it!

Jimmy, thank you yet again for the installation instructions for the LW11!!!

 

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We attacked the assembly and installation of the new base cabinets next; by the end of the day Saturday, this is what we had accomplished:

 

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Sunday, we re-united most of the GE Kitchen Center. The space for the washer-dryer is still empty, alas!!

 

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Finished the day Sunday with the installation of the pantry and wall cabinet near the all-in-one unit.
Now, if all goes well this coming weekend, I am hoping to re assemble and test the washer... I still need to order counter tops and get the plumbing installed. Oh yeah, there is still an island to build... But it's coming along!!

 

[rickr]

Looks great so far! Can't wait to see the rest. Thanks for the detailed photos!

 

[toggleswitch2]

It's gawgeous!

 

[hydralique]

Turquoise is my favorite applicance color, so needless to say I love your GE kitchen! The wall mount refrigerator is just about the neatest refrigerator ever.

I would explore the new beam system below the floor at bit, though. The beam itself looks pretty beefy - it's hard to tell scale but perhaps a 6 x 12? - but it's being held up by only two 2x studs from what I can tell. Normally you'd open the adjacent walls up and put posts in them and make sure the sole plates are on footings, rather than just put the studs on the outside of the wall finish. So long as the 2x studs are on footings you're probably OK.

 

[qsd-dan]

Certainly coming along very nicely!

 

[toggleswitch2]

Paul,

How does this one-piece receive power? How many circuits? You had metioned it once before, but I appear to have forgotten.

 

[turquoisedude]

How does this one-piece receive power?

Steve, due to rodent damage on other components, I thought it best to remove the original wiring altogether. I am guessing originally it went right to a distribution box of some kind with separate circuits for the range, washer-dryer, dishwasher, disposall, and counter outlets.
What I did in order to follow the Canadian electrical codes was to add four-wire power cords (one for the range, one for the dryer) with their corresponding outlets behind the units. The dishwasher is going to be hooked up with a standard power cord to a GFI wall outlet. The challenge was the 'power box' on the end of the counter - it has two installed outlets and two retractable power cords with small appliance connectors (like for a coffee maker or fry pan). These were all spliced to the same feed cable along with the feed cable from another installed outlet on the range control panel side. I didn't like this one bit, so I had a split-wired GFI breaker feeding a 3-wire cable fished up to that end of the center and I will hook it up so that one outlet and one power cord have their own circuit. The electrician was totally floored and took some convincing about all of this... Here's a bad picture of what the 'power corridor' looks like at the moment:

 

[toggleswitch2]

Thank you!