We took a few weeks off from the condo after finishing up the door frames because we needed a break, my streak of Thursdays off came to an end and the holiday season began.
We got started back up last week by prepping for the upcoming kitchen install on Dec 15-18. A dear friend is bringing his relative who has many decades of experience doing DIY projects and he graciously agreed to help install our kitchen cabinets.
Joel and I cleared out the kitchen area and arranged the cabinets to be installed and began marking out the positions of the cabinets.
Allison and I went back and took all of the doors off of the cabinets and labelled them and the cabinets they are associated with. We did this because the cabinets will now be lighter and easier to move and not have free swinging doors to bang us up with while we do the install.
I also marked the positions of all of studs with my new stud finder, the Stud Finder-Pro from EZ Level. I highly recommend this product because it use magnets to find the nails in the studs. The magnets are very sensitive and will hold the stud finder up, by itself over the nail, which will indicate its position. And from there, you can make a mark on the wall showing where the stud is located. This stud finder was pricey but it worked far better than the cheap electronic one I got from Home Depot. I don't think you'll ever need another one after the Stud Finder-Pro.
I started finding the high points around the kitchen but decided to stop because most people recommend using a 1x4 piece of wood. I used a 2x3 because that's what I had. This is probably newby paranoia but I wondered if an additional inch would throw off very important measurements so I decided to stop and to wait for my friends to arrive next weekend.
We got started back up last week by prepping for the upcoming kitchen install on Dec 15-18. A dear friend is bringing his relative who has many decades of experience doing DIY projects and he graciously agreed to help install our kitchen cabinets.
Joel and I cleared out the kitchen area and arranged the cabinets to be installed and began marking out the positions of the cabinets.
Allison and I went back and took all of the doors off of the cabinets and labelled them and the cabinets they are associated with. We did this because the cabinets will now be lighter and easier to move and not have free swinging doors to bang us up with while we do the install.
I also marked the positions of all of studs with my new stud finder, the Stud Finder-Pro from EZ Level. I highly recommend this product because it use magnets to find the nails in the studs. The magnets are very sensitive and will hold the stud finder up, by itself over the nail, which will indicate its position. And from there, you can make a mark on the wall showing where the stud is located. This stud finder was pricey but it worked far better than the cheap electronic one I got from Home Depot. I don't think you'll ever need another one after the Stud Finder-Pro.
I started finding the high points around the kitchen but decided to stop because most people recommend using a 1x4 piece of wood. I used a 2x3 because that's what I had. This is probably newby paranoia but I wondered if an additional inch would throw off very important measurements so I decided to stop and to wait for my friends to arrive next weekend.
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