Ruined kitchen

Wait, am I supposed to be shocked by the wiring, or the weird looking guy pointing at it?
 
GotWood said:
If you mean the wire just run thru the sheet rock, that is common. Was there a microwave or lighting there?
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I know that it is normal to run the wire through the sheetrock, but it looks like they put it through in the wrong spot to they just yanked it through the sheetrock until it hit where they wanted. Then the range hood was covering up a spot that looked like someone went apeshit on it with a hammer. :lol:
 
Blaze said:
just yanked it through the sheetrock until it hit where they wanted. Then the range hood was covering up a spot that looked like someone went apeshit on it with a hammer. :lol:
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"Can't see it from my house."
 
SOP. "look on the other side of the stud Larry."
 
Your electrician wired it, your sheetrockers covered it up and then your electrician used a hammer and knocked a couple of holes in the sheetrock to find the wire. The wire was too high I guess so he knocked out some more drywall.
 
No, it wasn't even in the same area as the wire, the wire ran vertical. I worked for many summers with my grandfather as an electrician, the pulling it to a spot is something I've seen done before. The horizontal smashing that made no logical sense was unrelated to the electrical work.

I also found about a 16" round hole in the wall behind the dishwasher that mice apparently were getting in to my house through.

And other things that made me and my buddy who was helping me laugh. :lol:
 
Got the whole kitchen stripped down today. Tore out all the cabinets and counter tops, ripped up the old subflooring, all the appliances out, etc.

Even stripped the popcorn off of the ceiling. Was pretty easy since they sprayed it over the bare sheetrock, came down in sheets, I had the whole room done in about 20 minutes.
 
Good Lord am I getting exhausted. When they replumbed the house with CPVC to replace the PB pipe they abandoned the PB pipe. Well, to install the CPVC pipe they drilled two holes through the floor and popped them up through it. No rhyme or reason, just did it. Actually, the hot water line went THROUGH the ductwork at one point, but I fixed that a few years back. Anyway, I turned off the water and capped the pipes. Yesterday the one valve started to leak out of the stem, so it got some of the floor wet again and wet the crawl space. So yeah, little setback. I planned on fixing that anyway, but I was wanting to get some other stuff done first.

I pulled out all the PB pipe and ran new CPVC in the walls, with brass ball valves and all, keep that crap from giving me any issues any more. Such a pain in the ass, but at least it is something that I will never have to deal with again. I hate shortcuts in construction, I'm doing everything RIGHT.
 
Why do it right when you can do it twice?
 
shawn said:
Why do it right when you can do it twice?
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You have nothing productive to give to this thread, do you?






LOL just kidding man. I thought your comment was pretty funny.
 
Why are you doing the work yourself? I thought you just said insurance is covering twice the cost.
 
criket said:
You have nothing productive to give to this thread, do you?
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LOL... no. I'm taking it as an opportunity to use all my contractor-isms.

Another good one: "If the average person knew how their house was built, they wouldn't live in it."
 
Blaze said:
Well, got the sheetrock replaced last night. Ended up having to tear out a 6'x3' section on one wall. Done now though, just gotta sand and smooth it. Should be ready for paint tomorrow.
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Look on the bright side, at least you will be indoors working on it this weekend. :beer:
 
Got the whole kitchen painted and half the cabinets hung. Tomorrow we are going to hang the other cabinets.

Anyone remember my rant about my framing being goofy frame spacing?

Here are my two main walls in my kitchen:
First: 17, 17, 9, 18, 12, 14, 7, 20
Second: 20, 20, 4, 22, 18, 20, 4

My ceiling also slopes up 1" in the last few feet of the one wall. Floor is flat. :lol:
 
Cabinets are hung! Man, that lasy susan was a filthy whore.

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