Yesterday's - chow time....

[Stick486]

the before...
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After the mezzanine deck and great room the kitchen was attacked next... (the woman of the house is barely 5' tall)...
There is nothing special about these cherry cabinets... fairly routine builds... all the shelves drawers are on easy close glides...
other than the floor this corner cab was the only piece of difficulty... w/ not much plumb/level/square, slight of hand for the aesthetics was in order...
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the island wasn't special either... another ripped out page of a home magazine (here, this is what I want only different – got that a lot) and scaled for comfort for the woman of the house (WOTH) and to fit the space available... the floor needed to be ripped up and the joists sistered and intermediate sistered joists added to support the granite CT on the island...
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W/ the WOTH being rather short, pull out steps/step stools were installed in the cab bases for easier access to the uppers, use the sink and make cooking easier...
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the flooring is cork and the original floor needed a lot of flatting... 2x6's @ 16OC (specs called for 2x10's), the crowns were alternated at random w/ 3 ply ½'' CDX for the deck... 2 joists were longitudinally split... all were sistered and crown corrected... installed intermediate sistered joists to bring the spacing up to 8''OC and shims everywhere... 7ply AC 5/8 T&G for the new deck..
Cab bases were built and installed separate of the boxes to comp for the floor and walls...
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finished...
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[HandyDan]

Nice! Love the step idea.

[Herb Stoops]

It is harder to fix things than do it right the first time. Great job, Stick.
One thing I can say about it was that over all the years I was never called back to redo something. I got criticized many times for taking longer to do a job,by the other foreman ,but when I walked away it was right, consequently,my crew got most of the plum jobs.
Herb

[Stick486]

It is harder to fix things than do it right the first time. Great job, Stick.
One thing I can say about it was that over all the years I was never called back to redo something. I got criticized many times for taking longer to do a job,by the other foreman ,but when I walked away it was right, consequently,my crew got most of the plum jobs.

how often is is said that they haven't got the time or money to it right the 1st but they do for a 2nd time...

[Herb Stoops]

I often thought that they ought to dock those crews that had to go back and fix them later, or at least the foreman.
The Subs liked to come to my jobs because their install was easier. But they knew if they did a sloppy job I made them tear it out and do it right. I always told them that when they walk away the job they did becomes mine, and I have to explain why it wasn't done right.

Herb