The last couple of weeks have been crazy busy for the house project. Pop has been here extra days during the week and I have taken a couple of vacation days to work on the house. The reason for the push is that the kitchen cabinets are being installed on Saturday, 9 October.
The floors have to be installed before the cabinets can go in. The subfloor needs to be prepared before the finish floor can be installed. The walls should be painted before the floors, to eliminate the impact of drips and spills. The ceiling, crown molding, door casing and baseboards have to be painted (with a sprayer) before the walls can be painted. The primer has to be on the walls before the finish paint can be applied. The joints have to caulked and the nail holes filled before the primer can be sprayed on. The crown moulding, door casings and baseboards have to be installed before they can be caulked and prepped. Whew!
So Kevin, Pop and I got all the crown moulding, door casing and baseboards installed in 2 Saturdays. Then Pop was over to prep for paint. He worked a long time getting the caulking and nail setting finished. At this point, since there was so much work, we decided to just go for the minimums. Knowing that we had to have the kitchen floor installed for the cabinetry to sit atop thus only the main area (family room, kitchen, living room) needed to be completed, we abandoned the side rooms that could be closed off, and focused on our primary area. I was ready to take an extra vacation day and we were ready to spray the primer.
Below are some pictures before we started this sprint.