Remodeling the Nuclear Room

[Jamminitin]

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Excited to see some pix.

I am a bit OCD when it comes to projects. If I start something, I WILL work on it until it's done. Now that sounds good in theory, until the rest of my house is a disaster and the chillrens are hungry-haha. I have really worked on not being so obsessive about it. I painted my two story entry, hall and kitchen-including cupboards (different color for cupboards), and it took me about maybe three weeks. For me, that's a miracle because in the past it would have been more like 5 days just stopping long enough to let the paint cure.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I'm like you. I like to forge ahead until it's done. I hate procrastinators and Matt is the biggest one. I swear his middle name is "momentarily"!

We still have kitchen cabinets to move too. I want to raise them all to the ceiling. That's the fast project too. Tedious but fast. Then once they are moved, (i probably should do this when i got them off the wall) I want to paint the room from white to the exact color of a cantaloupe. I'm tired of white.

[twisteroo]

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I'm like you. I like to forge ahead until it's done. I hate procrastinators and Matt is the biggest one.

But you see, everything is a pain in the ass. It may sound like a simple task but nothing ever goes right. A simple move of a cabinet usually means it's heavier than expected, is nailed down more than is expected, it breaks, it needs to be repaired, you don't have the stuff to repair it with, you gotta go to the home depot, you get the wrong stuff, you gotta go back, they don't have what you really need, you try lowes, then go to the old hardware store, then you finally get back and get going on the repair, your cordless drill is dead, your spare battery is crap, you say fuck it and use a screwdriver, now it won't fit through the door, you gotta remove the door, you scratch the wall with the door, now you have to keep chasing the cat out of the doorless room so you can work without crushing said cat, remind me to fix the scratched wall, "honey, I'm hungry, let's go get some lunch", "Fuck, I'll never get done if you don't leave me alone.", everything is finally in place to mount the cabinet in the new location, you measured everything 6 times, you lift it above your head, got the cordless charged and 6 screws in you mouth, the fucking cabinet doesn't fit even though you measured it 6 times, it's heavier than you should be lifting, you feel your back hurting, you scratch another wall as you have to set it down, go get the wood plane and make it fit, after much planing and sanding now it is lopsided, fuck it, no one will notice and I'll just fill the gap with calk, maybe some of that glue will help hold it up, now you lift if and make sure it fits, yes, it does, set it back down, glue the back of it, get screws and cordless ready, lift again, into place, almost, the fucker don't fit again, how is this possible? it fit without glue on it, hurry the hell up before the glue dries, shave it, sand it, beat on it, get it into place, screw it in....job well done, now you have every tool you own in the house, 45 minutes of cleaning up tools and shit, then put the door back on, save the wall repairs and painting for another day, one more trip to home depot to return all the shit you didn't need....
Anyway, that is usually the short version of any home repair, you should get the lowdown on plumbing.
And you wonder why we put shit off as long as possible.

[LKTraz]

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Damn Twisty, sounds exactly like one of my projects. I generally end up saying fuck it and go buy a new cabinet then get one of my friends who will work for beer to do it.

Oddly though when it comes to plumbing I do it myself with no major problems! Seems that I have a knack for it. Most of my friends know I will do plumbing for beer.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I'm like you. I like to forge ahead until it's done. I hate procrastinators and Matt is the biggest one.

But you see, everything is a pain in the ass. It may sound like a simple task but nothing ever goes right. A simple move of a cabinet usually means it's heavier than expected, is nailed down more than is expected, it breaks, it needs to be repaired, you don't have the stuff to repair it with, you gotta go to the home depot, you get the wrong stuff, you gotta go back, they don't have what you really need, you try lowes, then go to the old hardware store, then you finally get back and get going on the repair, your cordless drill is dead, your spare battery is crap, you say fuck it and use a screwdriver, now it won't fit through the door, you gotta remove the door, you scratch the wall with the door, now you have to keep chasing the cat out of the doorless room so you can work without crushing said cat, remind me to fix the scratched wall, "honey, I'm hungry, let's go get some lunch", "Fuck, I'll never get done if you don't leave me alone.", everything is finally in place to mount the cabinet in the new location, you measured everything 6 times, you lift it above your head, got the cordless charged and 6 screws in you mouth, the fucking cabinet doesn't fit even though you measured it 6 times, it's heavier than you should be lifting, you feel your back hurting, you scratch another wall as you have to set it down, go get the wood plane and make it fit, after much planing and sanding now it is lopsided, fuck it, no one will notice and I'll just fill the gap with calk, maybe some of that glue will help hold it up, now you lift if and make sure it fits, yes, it does, set it back down, glue the back of it, get screws and cordless ready, lift again, into place, almost, the fucker don't fit again, how is this possible? it fit without glue on it, hurry the hell up before the glue dries, shave it, sand it, beat on it, get it into place, screw it in....job well done, now you have every tool you own in the house, 45 minutes of cleaning up tools and shit, then put the door back on, save the wall repairs and painting for another day, one more trip to home depot to return all the shit you didn't need....
Anyway, that is usually the short version of any home repair, you should get the lowdown on plumbing.
And you wonder why we put shit off as long as possible.

First off..... I do the plumbing. Yes I sweat pipe. The bigger stuff we call in my friend Bobby.

Cabinets are EASY here. No nails or screws in the walls. They are hung on a track. I can take them down and rearrange them if I feel like it and it's with EASE. We already moved one cabinet up to the top. Took all of 10 minutes. It's going to take longer to take all the stuff out of the cabinets and put them someplace and put that shit back in compared to raising them to the ceiling.

[twisteroo]

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Who hung the track?

I'm actually not too bad at the plumbing lately, I've learned, oh I have learned.
Next time I'm gonna try that PEX stuff.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Matt hung the track. It involved math and if you want something fucked up and it involves measuring and math, I'm your gal!

[twisteroo]

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There is a Tim Allen joke here somewhere, but I'm too lazy to work on trying to be funny this morning.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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OK so here's an update on this year long remodel of a tiny closet sized room.

We FINALLY got the whole thing sheetrocked and ready to mud and tape. Matt's friend owes as you know so Matt calls him. Fucker moved to South Carolina! Guess who's going to wind up mudding and taping? Me. I hate doing that stuff. Hate, hate, hate it!

See what happens when you (matt) procrastinates?

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Today is a day for celebration! Matt's friend Mike is here and is taping and mudding that room!

They're at Home Depot now for another gallon of mud and other supplies.

The room will be primed and ready to paint and frame the trim by the end of today!

Two years! Two friggin' years it's taking to get this stupid thing done! I'm so tired of living with crap stuffed all over the house because that room's been in the middle of chaos. I can't wait to get it all back together again and live like human beings.

Next project is to turn the two back rooms into one giant bedroom. That's going to be a challenge since the dividing wall is a load bearing wall. Going to have to get creative there.