Subfloor removal without removing kitchen cabinets
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Comments (5)Yes, you are doing to have to remove it, you can't just slip new cabinet beneath an installed countertop. The countertop is probably glued with silicon. Which means that it is not going to be easy to remove. Silicon really sticks. We generally remove a top by demolishing the center cabinets of a run, supporting the top at both ends, then support the cabinet with a temporary brace while we remove one end cabinet. Then you should be able to lever the top up which will release it from the other end cabinet, but have someone standing buy with a saw to slice through the silicon seal if required. Good luck with this, it's not easy, and the top will be very heavy. Start with a small top first while you get the hang of it....See MoreRemoving subfloor staples...trying to save hardwood....HELP!!!
Comments (22)"Pecky cypress" is a highly prized wood, because of its imperfections. And, with all the old cypress homes in Louisiana being torn down, the wood used in newer homes are proud to bear the marks of its history. My brother made a table for me from really thick cypress which came from Miss Effie Long's house in Thibodeaux LA. The house was 90 years old when it was torn down, and he discovered that the wood had been recycled from a previous house. Miss Effie was Huey P. Long's sister. When I got the table, I told him to leave it alone, I loved the arcs of the HUGE saw blades on the boards! I did not want them removed. He gave me the table in 1976, and I still have it unfinished and a beautiful silver. The one he made for himself, he refinished it after a lot of sanding, yet there are still small holes on the boards he used for the legs. No telling what made them. Right now you think of them as simply staples, but in the future, they will be HISTORY....See MoreRemoving cabinets without removing coutertop
Comments (3)I can see the underside of the Corian from underneath. I do see some 1" support strips between the Corian and the base frames. I also see silicone between the counter and the 1" strips, but don't see any squeeze out between the strip and cabinet. I hope they didn't nail the strip down into the cabinet frame. I haven't pulled out the toe kick to see how much shimming was done [but knowing the prior owner, the floor was probably flat and square - he was an engineer like me] For the two I want to remove without damaging, one is a 12" drawer base that will move to the other end; the other is a 33" drawer base that will go into the dining room and be the start of a builtin buffet. [I have a third to remove that is on a peninsula but I'm not keeping that so I can hack more aggressively on it.] These are Kraftmaid Cherry cabinets with the real wood frame upgrade....See MoreRemoving old 'stick built' cabinets without destroying the walls?
Comments (13)So it just so happens that I got an e-mail ad from Harbor Freight Tools showing the knockoff for $19.99, and I figured for that price, I could buy it just in case I get the guts to do this. You see, I've been refacing the cabinets for the last 4 years (working on and off)...but at the time I bought the refacing supplies, my options were unstained (yuk), dark, and "harvest oak". So I got the oak. It's not bad as oak goes -- it doesn't have that yellow look that oak can get, it's shaker doors, and I suppose if I wait long enough, oak will come back. But the kitchen has another problem that has to be addressed: It's 9.5' x 17' and the work area is a U along a wall shared with a bathroom and a load-bearing wall. It's sort of cut in half in the middle by the refrigerator on one side and a wall oven cabinet plunked in the middle of the wall on the other side. Between the wall oven and the start of the "L" (which has the cooktop) is a door to the outside. I would LOVE to get rid of that wall oven cabinet and replace the cooktop with a range. If I keep the existing pseudo-cabinets (and you can read my sad "Kitchen Hell" story, with photos, here, the appliance place said they can cut into the existing base cabinet and finish it off, which will also give sufficient clearance from the outside wall that would be next to the side of the range. But then the oven opens up and blocks the door, so I'm not sure how good an idea that is, even though another house on my block did just that. The other issue is that I would lose four cabinets, which I would want to replace by building a wall of cabinets on the other 9-1/2' wall that is blank...but I have no idea what I'd put up there. I'd hate to do more oak, but I have no idea what would go with. If anyone wants to take a crack at venturing opinions, I can take more photos. Or I can just live in this horrid kitchen until I can afford to remodel it (and can find a reputable contractor who would do it without costing me all my savings). It IS, after all, just a 1950's cape....See MoreUser
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