Week ending Oct 28 - Post 2 of 2 -- Old Kitchen Demo and Electrical

Eric Busa pushed up the kitchen demo so that the plastering and kitchen demo (with new plastering) could happen simultaneously in order to have Declan and his crew be able to finish the plastering of the kitchen addition and do the transition into the old kitchen.  That saved us time so that Declan and his crew did not have to come back.  Eric gave us enough notice to us to clear the kitchen and the demo happened in a day!

Eric enlisted the help of David to help with the demo.  Thanks David!  Welcome to the project!

Also, Eric worked with Rick the electrician to have people from his company (Sean and Mike) to do the electrical right after the demoing (same day) to update the old kitchen.  They installed additional ceiling lights and prepped for new outlets.  They also prepped the pendants for the islands.  Also, they ripped out old the old wiring and replaced with new up-to-date wiring.  Thanks guys!

See the pics below to see the process:

The old kitchen. You can see how Eric put up the temporary wall to keep the dust, etc. from invading our home up to now...  So far, we had minimum impact on our living conditions due to the addition.  I guess we'll see more impact on our days, especially without a kitchen!  That said, it just means that progress is being made!  We are getting closer to the end.

 

The lovely red counter:

 

 

David and Eric starting the kitchen demo.  The bulk of the demo really took only a few hours. 

That's David removing the temporary wall:

 

Eric looking happy:

 

 A view into the addition from the old kitchen.  Temporary wall removed:

 

Another view into the addition from the old kitchen (from the dining room):

Views from the addition into the kitchen as it is being demoed:

The kitchen after the kitchen cabinets and the walls have been largely removed.  The post you see that is holding up the original house has been a design issue from the very beginning.  Future posts will show you how we tried to deal with it:

A view into the family room:

Eric Busa working with Sean and Mike (the electricians).  Seriously, thank you Sean and Mike for the hard work in the afternoon taking care of the electrical!