Days 7-11: Contractor/Lee's/Electrician - Flooring is expencive

Saturday Morning the contractor came to texture the ceiling and to fix the hole in floor. Well he showed up and textured the ceiling, and forgot to fix the floor.

We call Kami and the girls to come help us paint on Sunday, well we forgot/lost a few things. we made 3 trips to Ace Hardware. 1 for roller pads, 2 for a second roller and extension, 3 for paint for the ceiling. Dad was ticked!

Monday Lee's came in to flatten the floor. The additional charge is $3.50 pr sq ft!!!!!!!!!!!! We dont know if the price is in additional to the cost for the installation of $2.25 or if the total is $3.50? We dont know.

Tuesday Lee's came in to finish the floors and install the tiles.

Today nothing is happening, unless mom called the electrician to fix the Oven outlet

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Before

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In Progress

After the Leveling stuff is drying

Flooring Done

Flooring Done

Flooring Done

Days 4-6: Electrition/Contractor/PMT - Holy Hot!!

Wednesday the contractor came in to begin patching the walls.

The Electrician came on Tuesday to fix the problems that he created on Monday.

Thursday the contractor came in to do the second coat of mud on the walls and it was so cold in the house that the mud was not drying. so we had to jimmy rig the heater to kick on.  Mom and I went to Twin about 3:30 yesterday and when we came home the temp inside the house was 85!! The contractor came in a few hours earlier and said the temp was over 100!

Today PMT is coming to fix the wires for the phones so we can have a phone downstairs. The contractor is coming to do another coat of mud and the re-texture the ceiling.

Mom found a great contractor! He is allways late, but does a great job.

Our electricians are a joke. the made several mistakes and still have not hooked up the heater with a new thermostat. Also PMT came in this morning to hook up a wire and found that the electricians cut a phone wire to the bedrooms so we are paying PMT to repair any crappy work that the electricians did to the phones.

The pictures show what the kitchen looks like now

 

Day 3 - Electrician Day 2 and Contractor Day 2

Ok, Yesterday the electrician came and they made several mistakes:

1. The new outlet for the microwave was put about 7-8 inches away from where it was supposed to be. (contractor fixed)
2. Forgot to move the outlet for the range. 
3. Made a big mess of both sides of the wall by the stairs
4. Added an extra socket or outlet, not sure which. wasn't suppose to be there in the first place
5. General unbrainy electricians

Mom Says -
All and all they did a good job considering that they were here at 8:45 lunch from 11 to 12:30ish and left at 3:30 not bad for 5 hours and 15 minutes.

 The Microwave outlets - Left one is Wrong, Right one is correct

 Whet the H E Double Toothpicks is this one for??????

 Kitchen before any electricians are reak havoc

 The contractor is here to put drywall where the sofit was and to patch a few holes. 

Tomorrow the electricians will be here around 8am (9am Electrician time) to fix the rest of the items and to add an air vent to the basement, filp a switch to the other side of a wall, and to install the new thermostat, and move the Oven Outlet.

Day 2 - Electrician

Today the Electricians are here doing the new outlets and switches
Pictures to come later

Kitchen Remodel Day 1 - Bye Bye cabinets and floors - part 2

while I was at work, the work at home still went on

Ok, so instead of me posting endless amounts of pictures here i will post the pictures to a gallery page.

Here is the link to the gallery

http://gallery.me.com/colbyotte#100134

The Kitchen Day 1 - Wall go Bye Bye - Part 1

This morning the walls are tumbling down.

Before

Before

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Kitty

Contractors working on the wall

Contractors working on the wall

More images later

The New Otte Blog UPDATED

Welcome to the Otte Blog! We will be posting what happens to us, from a new kitchen to the Hershey's Vet trips. Come back soon for the Kitchen updates.

UPDATE: Meeko not Hershey needs to go to the vet for her shots