Pipes and Bricks

We had a busy week in terms of workers: plumbers, masons, carpenters, and designers were all here at one point or other. This is where we stand in the kitchen reno as of Friday afternoon.

We have a solid bathroom floor out of new plywood.  The pipes for the toilet and the sink has been plumbed in.  The windows have been boarded up.

In terms of the rest of the room, all the pipes that had to be relocated have now been. The two radiator pipes in the removed wall have been relocated and the opening up of that room is now complete with a new header. 

The pipes from the former bathroom that were in front of where the new window will be have also been rerouted. 

Outside, the three windows have been bricked in. The mason returns on Monday to open the wall for a new window directly in between the old windows; hence why the two edges aren't fully flush with the wall.

boarded up former windows

the wall into Will's office is totally open now

getting ready for bricks

new bricks installed and setting.  The new window will be cut directly between the former two openings.

pipes relocated to the inner wall, where the new studs are.

the view from Will's office to the backdoor.  It feels so nice and big with that wall gone.

The pipes have been relocated, as their were directly in the middle of the new window opening.

The mason's platform

Mitzy, the mason's cutie pie puppy

radiator temporarily removed so a new sub-floor and floor can be laid

On the schedule for next week: finish the rough plumbing; laying the new sub-floor in the back part of kitchen; new window opening cut; electrics get removed and new wire laid out; and hopefully, that brick pillar will be removed.  The removal depends on the steel beam, which should be in now and ready to be welded to the current beam.  The thought is that all of this will be done and then inspections can happen on it and some of other trades (plumbing and electrics).  Fingers crossed that they can accomplish all of that.