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Nat observed that I had not taken any photos of the current self-inflicted house project as it progressed. I suspect my neglect is likely associated with the hours I've been keeping on the project.

Back in October, I took two days off work during the fall school break in order to lay a new floor in the kitchen. Our previous kitchen flooring was suboptimal. The plan was to uninstall the existing cabinetry, strip the old floor, lay the new floor, and re-install the cabinets. As I cleared the kitchen and started disassembling the cabinets, I noticed that most of the cabinets were is really bad shape, due primarily to design decisions by the previous owner. Before I started, I believed that one of the cabinets was going to require some corrective action while I had it out.

By the end of the first day, I was still convinced I'd have a new floor and the kitchen reassembled by Sunday night. I was, of course, so very wrong.

As day two progressed, I learned that the dishwasher had been leaking for an extended period of time; that there were six layers of flooring above the sub-floor proper; that one of these pseudo layers was a collection of patchy strips of outdoor carpeting; that an 18 inch wide strip of outdoor carpet extended from the dishwasher across the room; that said carpet was soaked and completely overrun with mildew; and that the sheathing had been nailed into the subfloor in a near perfect grid spaced three to four inches between fasteners.

By Sunday afternoon, we concluded the cabinets were going to be replaced and the flooring was finally stripped to the subfloor. The photo above was taken that first Sunday afternoon.

As of Tuesday evening, November 7th, I completed: the rewiring of the kitchen; the stubbing of the plumbing for replacement with PEX and PVC; the rerouting and stubbing of the gas for the stove; the ducting for the new stove hood; the replacement of the old, fairly useless closet with a simple, much smaller box for the flues; installed new sheathing on the subfloor; reworked the high air return for the furnace; and replaced the front door to the house (though I suspect I'll be revisiting the door come spring).

Wednesday, November 8th, the cabinets were delivered a week earlier than estimated. If I had been in a rush to get the cabinets, or if I were waiting to install the cabinets, I can only imagine how long delivery would have taken. I also started hanging the new sheetrock . The photos below are the eviscerated and mostly reworked kitchen space.

The new floor will be carbonized, vertical cut bamboo from Simple Floors.