| Re: Saturday 1-20-18 |
Subject: Re: Saturday 1-20-18 by teebee on 2018/1/20 15:21:34 Morning guys....Another nice day is on tap today, but the other shoe falls tomorrow. Better utilize today. Yesterday I left early to get up to the vocational school 5:50 MT. I put mountain time down as the school runs on MT, even though I'm on central. Becomes MT 15 miles west of town. Got there and the boys helped me unload my tools and we started in on the process. Whomever designed the kitchen (my former student and teacher there, and the local lumberyard guy) didn't do the best job. One of those deals where it looks fine on paper, but not-so-much in real life. I told the boys, I generally wouldn't do this (a 24" deep cabinet over the refrig) because things get shoved to the back and are basically lost, but besides that it was situated very close to the inside corner and made everything feel like a 'cave'. After installing it everyone agreed...including the the teacher. It was decided that he would order another cabinet, but the standard 12" depth. Then I suggested that we take it back down and cut it back to 15" depth. there was some trepidation from some of the kids and the teacher, but I asked what they would do with this cabinet once it was taken down and they said it would probably end up at the dump. So I convinced them if this didn't work out it would go to the dump anyway. So I set about getting one of the better, more motivated students to cutting it down, luckily I brought the tools to accomplish the job. We cut it down, then put it back up and "viola" a HUGE transformation that made sense. I indicated to the boys this wasn't a "typical" thing I do on a cabinet install, but something they might run into at some point. Anyway we got the cabinets installed by 3:30, the time the boys get out of school. I hung around long enough to gather my tools, measure for counter tops and head out. There were about 4 boys who stayed long enough to help me gather things and load up. Thank you guys. Today is second coat of paint on the face frames, talk to a client about their kitchen project and look at a computer that I got called on yesterday. Time to get with it. |
