Don's Old Daily Dabblings

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Re: Don's Construction Project

When does the Mother-in-law move in?
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The (Step) mother in law died a few years back and is part of what is funding this project.

 

[Rick M]

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The (Step) mother in law died a few years back and is part of what is funding this project.

​She will be there in spirit . What are you building?

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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​She will be there in spirit . What are you building?

I hope not....
WE are building a room that will be connected to our kitchen and the table will be out there since the kitchen has always been a little cramped. We have just finished a full remodel of the kitchen and increase the number of cabinets so there is even less floor room. This addition was planed before we did that though. There is also a new laundry room and a half bath in the addition. Lots of natural light in the addition. 6 windows and a full glass door in the main room. The old laundry was off the kitchen and it is becoming a walk in pantry.

 

[Marilynne]

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Sounds nice. How long is it suppose to take?

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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Sounds nice. How long is it suppose to take?

completion date is supposed to be mid December.

 

[FastGlass]

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Hey Don. Once the demo is finished is anything going back up? Are you removing this for something else to take it's place?

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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Hey Don. Once the demo is finished is anything going back up? Are you removing this for something else to take it's place?

WE are adding a breakfast room off the kitchen, laundry room and half bath.

 

[Roy1961]

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are you painting the boot Red with a white A on it?

i bet you are glad its off, good to be back on your own wheels

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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are you painting the boot Red with a white A on it?

i bet you are glad its off, good to be back on your own wheels

With all the straps and Velcro I won't be able to put my A back on it. There are some areas on the side of the base that Might be able to put stickers on so I may look for some. I can put some weight on the boot now and take a couple of steps so far. maybe in a couple of weeks I will be walking pretty good on it.

 

[Browncoat]

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WE are adding a breakfast room off the kitchen, laundry room and half bath.

Spoken like a married man.

*cracks whip*

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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Everything that was HERE​

Is now here​

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And is leaving the driveway in a few minutes.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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Day two starts with getting the trench dug for plumbing and forms for slab.

 

[Roy1961]

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it will be good to put these photos into a timeline type video clip

take it easy on your leg

 

[Roy1961]

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With all the straps and Velcro I won't be able to put my A back on it. There are some areas on the side of the base that Might be able to put stickers on so I may look for some. I can put some weight on the boot now and take a couple of steps so far. maybe in a couple of weeks I will be walking pretty good on it.

what about an Alabama "modified" sock over it?

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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Rest of the brick has been removed and outside of the form is up.

 

[Marilynne]

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Will it be handicap accessible? Just thinking ahead.

 

[Marcel]

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Aren't you glad you didn't try to do this yourself...

You seem to have picked up the right team. They fly and look like they care about the quality of the finished product.

Money well spent (well invested I should say).

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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Will it be handicap accessible? Just thinking ahead.

It actually is. The half bath was not in the original plans but after the broken leg and I was not able to get into my bathroom with even a walker the wife decided we needed to add the half bath. I proceeded to redraw the plans before I talked to this contractor. I added 5 feet to the far side of the addition and put in the bath. It has a comfort height commode which is not handicapped but more design for older people. It is about 2 to 3 inches taller than a standard commode. The bathroom also has a 36in door.

The contractor also told me this morning that this could be turned into a mother in law suite with very little work. Just my moving the laundry room out and back to where it is now and expanding the bathroom into the laundry room area and making the rest of the laundry room into a walk in closet. So a good selling point when the house goes up for sale on day.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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[h=1]Room Addition Day 2[/h]Slab is ready to pour tomorrow

Cleaning off the wall getting ready to pull out the window and door. Window will be a walk through opening to the new room from the kitchen and the doo will just become a wall.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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[h=1]Room Addition Day 4[/h]
Concrete slab being poured and leveled