Is it normal to pay in full for cabinets at the time of ordering?
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Comments (2)what you probably have is a seedling from H.D. Seedlings can take from2-? years to flower. The bloom fertilizer will help but plants have their own schedule for flowering. Flowering usually starts and then the plant splits into several (usually 3) new arms. Some plants will flower again in one season while most wait until next season. Once a plant begins to flower, it will usually flower every season as long as it gets some phosphorus (in bloom fert.) Fertilize once every 10-14 days with water soluable or once every 4-6 weeks with a good organic (Like Dr.Earth #8) Many use osmocote following the directions for a time released. Also it is common to get leaves first and then when the plant wants to flower it will. Some plants send out inflos now, some next month, others in July. My plants last year ranged in start times for the first flower from May until September 3. I had 22 plants flowering by June 30 and 59 flowering by July 30. If it is not showing signs of flowering (inflos) by mid August, It probably wont happen this year. Stop fertilizing in October in San Diego. After looking at your pictures, these do not look like seedlings and have a normal growth. They should start to flower this summer....See MoreYeehaw! TIme to Order Cabinets!
Comments (4)I'm so glad for you - you've been working hard at this for a long time. This is kinda dis-jointed so take as just some thoughts. The cooktop run is really 27" P&P, 3" slanted filler, 36" cooktop cab with p&p underneath, 3" slanted filler, 27" P&P. Take a min and think about if you want to pile your pots or store them on edge - makes a difference in how deep the drawers are on at least one side. The cleanup run is a good place for dishes - accessible for the micro, from the range when you just want to plate-up drinks, setting the table, etc. Just like every location other than beside the oven, its defect is that people setting the dining room table will tend to cut behind the chef. A lot of dishes can fit on 10-11" open shelves - like over the sink between the two cabinets. Hint, hint, hint - bare wall is kinda uninteresting to look at over the long term. You could consider ikea grundtal shelves (just stainless rails) there - they're pretty neutral, but think about it now because they are the damn metric, so they come in funny sizes - like 31" and 49" trailed by odd fractions. They stay pretty clean because the action of putting dishes on/off knocks off most of the dust. If you did a 15" and 27" at the ref, You could store most wraps, baggies, napkins, paper plates in the 15" and still have space left over in the 27". What about over the ref? Salad spinner? Extra set of dishes? More baking gear? Personally, I moved the foil and parchment paper near prep-cooking - or in your case over near the oven. It only took me 30 years to figure out that I only used those in the oven. I also have waxed paper that I'm trying to use to replace some of my plastic addiction. The baking run needs at least one filler - 1.5" if you trust your builder, 3" otherwise. Because both ends have a wall and it ain't built yet, it's very tricky to be exact....See MoreHow much did you pay for your full reno?
Comments (88)Midland, Texas. My suggestion is to get as many bids as possible on all aspects of your job. The variations from one contractor to another was HUGE. Also, I splurged on important things and went middle of the road on other things. But for this area it is a nice remodel... I live in a nice neighborhood... my house is the smallest on the cul de sac... my neighbors house is well over 4,000 sf on a half acre or more lot. Obviously my house is no million dollar home ;) (there's a few of those neighborhoods here) but I am a perfectionist and it is good. Not perfect... the cabinets are from a local cabinet maker and painted on site with a reputable painter- but it's not perfect but "good" and definitely better than acceptable. I could have easily spent $20k more on the kitchen with little to no additional ROI. We also did some work ourselves... i.e. All the demo, and any other non skilled labor we could do before the pros took over. We are also doing the trim work ourselves (baseboards and door casings). We bargained shopped for the appliances (all new Bosh except for range and bev fridge); new vinyl windows and not wood clad (no one has wood in this neighborhood); buying anso nylon carpet buy using one of the in stock colors; splurged on bath tile; got a good price on wood look tile $3.75sf for Marazzi American Estates for the other flooring; splurged on a few light fixtures but most are pottery barn level. Found a great deal on mosaic tile that's going behind master bath vanities; re-using the master bath mirrors and having them repurposed with bevel edge. We made and have been keeping a detailed spreadsheet of all expenses and making other cuts when necessary to stay on budget (for example, we didn't get the pot filler because we need to shave a little off and we didn't want to spend on the faucet but we have a second sink 2 ft away that can fill pots... tons of little $1000 decisions like that add up! Honestly, I have lost money on being indecisive. We had a general contractor for the kitchen, master bath, plumbing and electrical, but we subbed out all the other work ourselves. Also, we didn't use the highest end contractor, but we also didn't use the cheapest. Just middle of the road people honest people we felt good with and that would work hard and wanted to do good work. They all came with recommendations from friends, our designer, or flooring store sales person....See MoreCould the kitchen contractor be taking us for a ride?
Comments (13)jgowadia- Please do not give this guy any more money until there had been a substantial amount of work accomplished. Just because the cabinets are about 50% of the total shouldn't mean that that amount is needed up front by the supplier. It's not usual to have to do this, and is typically a sign of a contractor with shaky finances. This thread will give you a better idea of what is customary: [https://www.houzz.com/discussions/is-it-normal-to-pay-in-full-for-cabinets-at-the-time-of-ordering-dsvw-vd~2668888[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/is-it-normal-to-pay-in-full-for-cabinets-at-the-time-of-ordering-dsvw-vd~2668888) Aside from the cabinets, a contractor should be paid as work is accomplished, with little to nothing in advance....See Morecarybk
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