The Install

True to Coakley's word, my cabinetry arrived within six weeks. We set the second week of January to do the install. It was scheduled to take 5 days.

The weekend before, I did the demo. It took the better part of a two day weekend. Thanks to Scott who showed up Sunday night to help with the removal of the bad bad rug whose rubber backing was permanent afixed to the bad bad old gold linoleum. I tried to remove the linoleum, but it was totally stuck to the sub-flooring. I was only able to remove ~12 inches of the linoleum around the perimeter. We left the linoleum in the center of the room, but Scott helped to scrape the rest of the rubber backing from the rug so the cement board could be installed.

Contracter #1 showed up first thing Monday morning with contracter #2 in tow. The work progressed well the first two days. On day three a third contractor arrived to help with the electrical work. By Thursday it was apparent that the work would not be done by Friday. Monday, contractor #1 showed up alone, and progress went even slower. I came home for lunch every day that week to find no one at work, contractor being pulled off to work at other jobs. Thursday was the last day of work, and unfortunately I was attending an all day workshop. When I got home that night, I was distressed at the results.