Day 1 - the walk-through and the work
It's day one and you know the first thing we need to arrive is a dumpster... and we all know why. Start of a great time of timing and multiple tradespeople all meeting out at the new site at 8am. Day 1 in the kitchen. Take a nice look because it's all going away. It was literally too dirty and greasy to clean properly and the countertop needing replacing bad (more on that below). We tried to save the microwave but as soon as you touched it, it was like squeezing an oily french fry. Had to go. What is nice is the sink itself is in pretty good shape. With plans on the right, we are going to try and save this sink for our temporary kitchen we are installing from IKEA as their sinks are WAY too small for a family of soon to be six. We will have to do a major hack on the IKEA cabinets to make them work but it should be fine. A couple of things here. It looks nice in a picture but that "backsplash" is peal and stick. It's awful. Gone. Second a few n