FLOOR! WE HAVE FLOOR! WOOT!
The installers were here for most of the day, installing the cork floor, and it looks and feels fabulous. I've already confirmed with the appliance folk that we can take delivery of the fridge and range next week.
There are a few gotchas, mostly around the T-strip for the transition between the tile and the cork. One gotcha is that I managed to not order enough (don't ask me how). The other is that it didn't come with the installation rail that the installers were expecting. I have inquiries in on both points, though neither is enough to keep us from using the kitchen.
The other thing, which happened earlier in the week, is the Miele steam/convection oven finally got installed, which will make Margie very, very happy.
Essentially, that leaves us with a couple of remaining appliances to get put in (see above), plus getting the range hood hook-up to the make-up air complete, and we're largely done except for the trim and baseboards and the like. And we can start moving back into the kitchen …
(There's also the sprinkler system and retaining walls in the side yard to be done, but that's a different challenge, and doesn't keep us out of the kitchen.)
In Album Hill-Kleerup Kitchen – 2015-06-25
I don't see the replicator.
We were planning on one, but it would have required an entire new electrical panel, so we gave it a pass. Next remodel.
Oh amazing. At some point, you'll have to tell us the total cost.
Just so we don't start planning this type of thing in our own homes…
+Paula Moore The main problem is that the excavation and basement expansion was a substantial part of the cost, which most folk wouldn't have to deal with.
I'm also, in retrospect, a bit abashed about the overall cost. I'm not into that sort of conspicuous consumption.
But we'll see. There seems to be a lot of (non-salacious) interest.
By "excavation and basement expansion," he means his Batcave.
+Dave Hill I have to laugh. We started out to replace our old post and beam foundation, and ended up moving the house five feet east, onto a full-height lower level and a "dungeon" below that for the physical plant and storage.
It took 18 months ( we lived in my parents' basement) and, to this day, I have no idea how much it actually cost. Somewhere north of $300,000 – might even have been in the $400,000 range. The job started out with an estimate of $65,000.
Once you get to a certain point, you just have to avert your eyes and stumble on. ;^>
+Paula Moore Okay, I think you beat us. 🙂
But ours turned out to be the whole house, so it's not really a good comparison. And a tree fell on it at a certain point, so insurance picked up some of it.
Guess I was just trying to say that it's not that easy to come up with an accurate figure.