My DH is a chef...went to Culinary Institute of America right out of HS. today he is managing 4 restaurants and 2 hotels for the guy that owns them all.
He is building his dream kitchen. he designed it and is blowing out the back wall so the kitchen can be in a conservatory....one wall will be glass and so will the ceiling.
I had to pick the cabinets, granite and flooring and I am done...this is his deal, no more construction decisions for me... I'm the project photographer, though.
Tuesday they started excavating the new basement. Yesterday and all day today 2 guys spent trying to break down the old concrete bulkhead...2 jackhammers, sledge hammers and concrete saws later and they have barely dented it. good thing it only reached a high of 6 today because there will be no pouring cement for the footings until it warms up and the bulkhead is gone.
Vanessa, of course I had to show DH your pic, he's interested in following the progress too!
A question. When you say "bulkhead" where or what do you mean? Up here (maybe it's a Canuck thing..lol), a bulkhead is where a ceiling meets a wall. We're trying to figure out, from your pic, where that bulkhead is.
Are you going to have a basement or a crawlspace under the new addition?
law requires that you have outside access to a full basement. the bulkhead is a cement "jog " in the foundation. Steep stairs are built inside and a stupid metal door attached...think Wizard of Oz. the door dorothy couldnt get in.
Since we are putting in a full basement we need the old bulkhead gone and a new one put in.
here's a picture of what the old bulkhead looks like after excavation.
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At least it's too cold for people to keep going out and then tracking mud into your house, but I guess that will happen sometime. I'll bet you have wonderful meals and tasty things to eat at your house. I love the birch tree view from the house, it's lovely.
They have done NOthing since the last picture...too cold to pour footings so it has been 2 weeks of nothing and this week isn't goign to be any better.
That hole is looking more like a swimming pool lately...and I;'ve always wanted a pool.
Tulirose...sorry, i didn't answer your question.
DH is NEVER home to cook and when he is, it's the last thing he wants to do. so, Why does he want a dream kitchen? i have no idea.
Wow what a remodeling! Yikes!
After all the suffering and hardship it'll be wonderful for DH to have his own dream kitchen realized.
And you get a new dream home.
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