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robinsnest) wrote2010-04-11 10:05 am
robinsnest) wrote2010-04-11 10:05 am
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New apt: day one
Okay so it's actually day two but it was the first REAL day of digging into the new apt.
We signed the lease on thursday night. I did do a little washing and threw out some nasty mini blinds.
Yesterday we went in with guns blazing! We were supposed to just replace the counter tops and the sink. But when we started ripping things out we found a few....problems. For instance the "counter" was plywood with a laminate sheet on top. Sitting, yes, SITTING on top of the 2x4 cabinets. When we touched said 2x4's with a hammer they fell into a pile of rotted wet wood before our very eyes. So since the original cabinets were homemade nasty wet wood Rob decided to just make new homemade cabinets. Will it be amazingly polished? No. But we're going for a quaint retro kitchen look anyway and it'll serve our purposes just fine. After we had removed the sink and counter we found that the water had soaked (and I mean soaked): The entire sink cabinet, three shelves, a layer of plywood, THREE layers of linoleum, the original tar paper and another layer of plywood. We got down to the sub floor and it was damp but not rotted. We've bleached the heck out of it, cleaned off all the mold. and Put up a very heady layer of Kilz. Can we just discuss how stinky oil based paint is? OMG. Words don't do it justice. Our kitchen currently consists of a stove and a refrigerator.
Because I was helping Rob in the kitchen so much I didn't nearly finish my projects. I got half of the ceiling paint that was fall off down and finished spackeling the living room walls. I did not sand or wash the walls and got no Kilz up anywhere but the kitchen.
It's a good thing we're getting such an amazingly sweet deal on the rent or this would so not be worth it.
We signed the lease on thursday night. I did do a little washing and threw out some nasty mini blinds.
Yesterday we went in with guns blazing! We were supposed to just replace the counter tops and the sink. But when we started ripping things out we found a few....problems. For instance the "counter" was plywood with a laminate sheet on top. Sitting, yes, SITTING on top of the 2x4 cabinets. When we touched said 2x4's with a hammer they fell into a pile of rotted wet wood before our very eyes. So since the original cabinets were homemade nasty wet wood Rob decided to just make new homemade cabinets. Will it be amazingly polished? No. But we're going for a quaint retro kitchen look anyway and it'll serve our purposes just fine. After we had removed the sink and counter we found that the water had soaked (and I mean soaked): The entire sink cabinet, three shelves, a layer of plywood, THREE layers of linoleum, the original tar paper and another layer of plywood. We got down to the sub floor and it was damp but not rotted. We've bleached the heck out of it, cleaned off all the mold. and Put up a very heady layer of Kilz. Can we just discuss how stinky oil based paint is? OMG. Words don't do it justice. Our kitchen currently consists of a stove and a refrigerator.
Because I was helping Rob in the kitchen so much I didn't nearly finish my projects. I got half of the ceiling paint that was fall off down and finished spackeling the living room walls. I did not sand or wash the walls and got no Kilz up anywhere but the kitchen.
It's a good thing we're getting such an amazingly sweet deal on the rent or this would so not be worth it.
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