Casa de las Ratas 6/29/2005

Casa de las Ratas Week "We Lost Track"

up to June 29, 2005

Here comes Elvis with the kitchen cabinets!

Elvis did a practice run by building new cabinets for me at my other house. You can check them out here.

The Rat House cabinets will look like those ones but there will be gobs more of them.

Stacks of drawers waiting to be installed. All the drawers and doors have these nifty blue motion closing mechanisms so when you slam them shut they go ssssssssssssssss and slide themselves in.

Lazy John installing the cabinets flanking the stove.

Oh, did you see the stove?
It's a 1955 O'Keefe & Merritt
Model 535 - High-Vue

Here are the top shelves. You can see all the upper cabinet lights that are going in.

Lazy John installing the cabinets and pantry on the wall where the refrigerator will go. There will be plenty of cabinet space in this kitchen.

Even the nook behind the back door got a couple of cabinets.

Here's Tony and Elvis holding up the upper cabinet as you walk in the back door. Lazy John is screwing it in. He actually isn't all that lazy sometimes.

Go back to week 1 at Casa de las Ratas

Week 2: more cleanup and roof replacement.

Week 3: the big dumpster comes and the hot mop boys will show up.

Week 4: fixing the valleys, new kitchen subfloor

Week 5: prepping the roof, framing in the kitchen, ripping out more floors...

Week 6: Replacing a ridge board, new tiles on the roof, more paint, why not?...

Week 7: Let's get the roof finished! And destroy more stuff inside!

Week 8 & 9: Final touches on roof, removing all the old hard conduit/black pipe, filling yet another roll-off dumpster.

Week 10 & 11: Rough plumbing finished, electrical started, more tools acquired, and a big header installed

Week 12: Kill that old rear bathroom, level the yard, cast some concrete.

Week 13: More electrical work, HVAC installation finished, get ready for drywall.

Week 19: More painting to brighten up the Rat House. More window prep.

Week 22: Big Inspection goes well, stucco scratch coats, wiring beauty shots