Doug's Sounding Board

I took some pictures of the kitchen backsplash, and the tile we’re going to use in the bathroom. This afternoon we should be able to paint the bathroom.

We have hot water now! The plumber came back yesterday to check into the lack of hot water problem. He experimented with running a temporary dedicated gas line to the water heater, but that didn’t help though he did determine that out gas pressure was a little too low, especially if the house heater is […]

I know they all seem like state of the house, but it seems like there are a lot of little things to mention. We got an on-demand water heater (Takagi K-2). The old water heater was in an outside closet that took up part of the office. The floor sloped slightly in so if the […]

The kitchen has walls now. If you stand in the middle of it you feel like you’re in a padded cell.

Between the holidays, and buying a new car, I haven’t had time to take or post many pictures. That works out though because contractors and sub-contractors also take time off for the holidays so not much gets done. Anyway, here are pictures of the kitchen and bathroom that cover the highlights of the last few […]

Not much videual has happened in the last week so I put it all here as a one week update. A lot of the work has been framing what needs to be framed and getting all the plumbing in and planning for electricity and such. The kitchen has the openings framed to the size they […]

There’s been a few more days of work and the results have more plants and a fountain! A little more destruction and some joke doorsin the kitchen and .

Yesterday they finished destroying the bathroom including the ceiling. You can see the lame duct work they had for the bathroom fan. It’s supposed to be a short straight run, not a 25 foot (7.62 meters for any non-English unit people) run of flexible vent tube. They also did more kitchen destruction. Opening up walls, […]

The bathroom and the closet are just empty shells now.

The kitchen is destroyed. Today the bathroom and closet get it and here are the before pictures and a picture of the plans. Now I think I can not have to worry about moving things around when I go home. Yay! More plant pictures soon too.