Sewing and Beyond with Mary Anne Ciccotelli

(on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011)

Pedro and Stephen are working on moving the gas line.  When I asked if it was okay if I took the picture with them in it Stephen looked up and said a big “CHEESE”.  I love his smile.  He is the one that has been working here day after day.  He is a very hard worker and I appreciate all that he is doing.

The gas pipe is moved – the relocation of the stove is now a done deal – no going back now!

Checking for leaks (another big cheese for the camera).  It’s great that I like this guy because he is spending alot of time in my house.

With the move of the stove came other things that needed to be changed – ie heat/ac vent.

This has been challenging.  After discussing a few options and the pros and cons it was decided that the vent would be reposition to the right, coming out under the lazy susan.  When they started to make preparations for this they realized that there was a support stud(beam) for the upstairs that they needed to go through.  Probably not a good idea.  So, more options had to be discussed.

One option was to have it go up (to a height that would be above the duct work for the living room vent) and over to the left and down.  It would just barely come out into the corner under the cabints.   Pedro was not really excited about this option.  He didn’t feel I would get that much heat in the room if it was coming out in the corner like that (or maybe there was another reason and he just was not saying it).  What he really wanted to do was close the vent off and cover it up.  For me, this was not an option.  I was not too worried about the heat – I can always turn the oven on.  But in the Summer, the cool (A/C) is the problem.  With having closed that corner off I am really worried how hot the kitchen would get especially now since the cool air from the basement will not make it into the kitchen. 

We discussed different options.  The one we finally settled on was having the cabinet that is going to be above the microwave (which will be over the stove) 6″ shorter.  That 6 inch space will be used for the duct work/vent.  Above is our fine drawing of how the arrangement will look. 

Stephen has opened up the wall and it is ready for the duct work to be installed.

The cement board was also installed in part of the area to be covered with tile.  Pedro thinks they will install the tile on Firday (we’ll see).  I also spent some time to make the decision about the color to paint the walls.  You can see in the above picture to the right where I have a cabinet door, tile, drapery fabric and paint chip arranged trying to helping in the final decision.  Picking these colors is much harder than choosing fabric for a quilt – that come really easy.

I think Stephen really enjoys doing mud work – he always seems to find some time to spread a little mud here and there.

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