Yep. Two trenches.

Cabinets going back up:

Yikes... what did it cost to deal with the trenches and plumbing work? My MIL keeps bugging me about moving the toilet or a sink in their bathroom and it's probably more than they're willing to spend, but I have no clue what to tell them. This is one of those times where I'm not jealous at all of you guys with a concrete slab foundation.

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Yikes... what did it cost to deal with the trenches and plumbing work? My MIL keeps bugging me about moving the toilet or a sink in their bathroom and it's probably more than they're willing to spend, but I have no clue what to tell them. This is one of those times where I'm not jealous at all of you guys with a concrete slab foundation.

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Fife, for a DIY'er, in my case the main cost is rental of the jack hammer (either 4 hrs or 12 hrs) from Home Depot so just check with them to see what the rental costa are in your area. Then it's the cement to backfill and Sewer PVC pipe and PEX line with fittings. Not really major provided the slab is not tension cabled slab.

Now if you get a plumber to do the job, consider it maybe 10x the cost!

I'll have to double check but I don't recall that work being broken out specifically. I think it's figured in to the total to demo peninsula and move sink to rebuilt island.

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Yikes... what did it cost to deal with the trenches and plumbing work? My MIL keeps bugging me about moving the toilet or a sink in their bathroom and it's probably more than they're willing to spend, but I have no clue what to tell them. This is one of those times where I'm not jealous at all of you guys with a concrete slab foundation.

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Fife, for a DIY'er, in my case the main cost is rental of the jack hammer (either 4 hrs or 12 hrs) from Home Depot so just check with them to see what the rental costa are in your area. Then it's the cement to backfill and Sewer PVC pipe and PEX line with fittings. Not really major provided the slab is not tension cabled slab.

Now if you get a plumber to do the job, consider it maybe 10x the cost!

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The MIL's workmanship is very bad... they would need a plumber for sure.

Vent hood and island built out. Some doors and drawers left to do and then back to the smell of paint.

I'm a little confused, is the linoleum coming out sometime soon?

Are those cabinets over a door on the right side of the picture?

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Coming out? Yes. Soon? Good question. The island is still movable. Will most likely stay that way until the range comes in and that's looking like another 4 wks. He prefers to paint with the old flooring covering the foundation.

Entryway to the dining room.

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I'm a little confused, is the linoleum coming out sometime soon?

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Coming out? Yes. Soon? Good question. The island is still movable. Will most likely stay that way until the range comes in and that's looking like another 4 wks. He prefers to paint with the old flooring covering the foundation.

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That's the key piece of information I was missing, now it all makes sense.

I've always wondered, for a concrete slab how do you anchor the island down? With peninsulas I've done at least there was a pony wall to screw things into.

I'll let you know when he does it. I guess there's a chance it doesn't need to anchored as I don't think it's moving once the granite is on top. It will have an ~6'x9' slab on top.

jeez, that counter is going to be huge, nice!

i just set my island last week using a 2x8 that i anchored to the plywood sub-floor. i then anchored one of the base cabinets to that block before i attached the other base cabinet to make the island. i imagine you would do the same on concrete using tapcons.

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I've always wondered, for a concrete slab how do you anchor the island down? With peninsulas I've done at least there was a pony wall to screw things into.

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So I asked him last night and, as I suspected, he doesn't plan on anchoring ours given its size. He said he would normally do something like BoneAg posted, 2x4 or 2x6 with some glue and a few nails into the foundation.

New pics. Paint and stain finished. Progressing slowly but surely...

That's looking stellar! Great job.

I assume you are spraying all of the cabinetry, do you think you would see similar results brushing/rolling?

What type, brand, and color is that? I am looking to remodel my kitchen soon and I like the color of what you are using.

They are spraying them. It is a tinted lacquer and, to my knowledge, isn't suited for brushing or rolling.

The color is SW - Divine White.

Like the dual color cabinets; just the opposite of ours, we have white island with a dark glaze and dark espresso for the rest.

Some new pics...

Countertops going in



Range finally in place



Floors going in







And finally, my son "helping" me while I changed outlets and covers...

Forgot about this project. Progress looks great and I'm jealous of that oven and range. I've also never seen an island top cut like that, unique.

The range was something I said I wanted to do if we ever did a remodel. It was a tough sell to the wife ($$) but I think she's glad we went ahead and went with it.

The notches on the island top weren't necessarily planned but I actually was happy with them. They were really just the result of running a 1.5" overhang around the island base. We went back and forth quite a bit on which path to take with the arch coming off of the corbels. I didn't want to end up with a pencil eraser shaped top so I gave hard thought to coming back in 3-4 inches on the corbels and then running the arch. I lost out to the majority vote, and happy that was the case, as my design would have most likely cut seating down to three from five.

Looking good, you'll have a kitchen sink again before you know it!

Sink has actually been up and running for a few weeks now. That counter install pic was from a couple of weeks ago and are pretty much back to normal from a resources standpoint in the kitchen (even started moving things back into the cabinets and drawers!).

Overall functionality still varies day to day though depending on where they are working and what they have relocated.

Final before and after pics of the kitchen. Was hoping to get a "clean" picture but that seems to be a lost cause. Still some little things here and thre to button up but the major portions are finished.

Wow. Night and day difference. Nice job!

Looks Great

Bumping to add rounds two and three since I forgot about this thread.

So Phase II actually happened a couple of years ago and included the laundry room w/ half bath and the kids' bathroom. I was reminded afterwards that I terrible about before and after pictures. I only had after pictures from the laundry room and before pictures from the bathroom. Quite the combo.

Laundry room after (just imagine the before being a room full of honey oak cabinets, a pastel type composite tile and 30+ yr old Formica countertops. You can get a good feel based on the kitchen pics)

Kids' bath before and afters:

This is actually when we first moved in, wallpapered like most of the other rooms



Shortly after we removed wallpaper and painted the walls











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We removed the fur down originally over the shower and went up to the natural ceiling height.

Phase III, which is finishing up this week, covered the wet bar and living room.

Wet bar:

Cabinets were originally the honey oak like the rest of the house. We sprayed them a dark brown in phase I because we thought we go with a dark stain, which means replacing, so we wanted a feel for what it would look like.





Demoed



Going back together







All finished (just waiting on appliances)

Finally, the living room.

The living room was actually painted as part of Phase I but we never did anything much beyond that and the floor. My wife officially had enough of my TV set up so it was time to actually create a functional room.

Here is the LR prior to us moving in:



My temporary TV set up while we contemplated which direction to go:



Painting on progress



All finished and waiting on furniture to show up.

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Looks good. Im thinking about painting over stained oak cabinets. How much filler did you have to go through on all that oak? What type of primer and paint did you use?

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No fillers, we are embracing the grain. That wood is in every room in the house. We'd go broke just paying to have it filled.

Primer is SW ProMar white lacquer undercoater and paint is Valspar Valtec Ultra conversion lacquer. I think he prefers the Valspar primer over SW but he subbed it in since he didn't have a chance to pick up the Valspar before Monday.

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So not sanding at all just put the primer on top of the current wood finish

With the tinted lacquer there's no need to remove the original finish. The only sanding was on high traffic areas (like cabinet doors) an any imperfections they noticed.