Cabinet Installation Has Commenced

"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
08/02/2017 at 16:53 • Filed to: yowenkitchen

edit: reposting for the morning crowd

If any of you have seen my previous post (same hashtag). You’ll know I was putting in a beam to open up my kitchen to my living/dining. That is now in place and I’ve moved on to cabinet installation.

I’m always extremely frustrated when people have fridges protruding too far from their fridge cabinet, so that’s what I started with, I made damn sure fridge cabinet was exactly the right depth of my fridge to tuck all the way in. Here’s a picture of the spacer I built to make that happen:

I had a plumber in today to deal with some galvanized piping I just couldn’t budge loose without worrying about destroying all sorts of things. So now my hot water pipe comes up in a spot that doesn’t block the dishwasher which will be sliding in next to the fridge in the first picture.

So the plan tomorrow is to get the dishwasher into place with the help of a friend and hopefully we’ll also get the sink installed. Below is a picture of the installed beam, with a minimal support wall still in place to temporarily hold some electrical that used to be in the wall.

Any comments, suggestions or criticisms are welcome!

DISCUSSION (16)

random001 > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
08/03/2017 at 09:53

My wife had me to a built in for the fridge when I redid our kitchen. It’s a very good decision.

ttyymmnn > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
08/03/2017 at 10:02

We remodeled our kitchen last fall, but I paid somebody else to do all the work. I have no such skills. We also got a counter-depth refrigerator since we have a narrow kitchen and, as you say, didn’t want the fridge sticking out.

http://oppositelock.kinja.com/ttyymmnns-new-kitchen-1794644898

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > random001
08/03/2017 at 10:06

Yeah, I think it makes or breaks a lot of kitchen designs. And again, I get so irked by people that don’t put counter-depth fridges in a counter-depth fridge cabinet! The sides of fridges aren’t pretty stainless steel like the front, it bugs me so much to have that exposed, haha. At which point it is an eye-sore on what otherwise is a beautiful kitchen with no expenses spared. This even happens on home-reno shows.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > ttyymmnn
08/03/2017 at 10:07

You did it right! The lines of your kitchen are nice and clean that way!

Exactly your setup is what I see a lot of people put full-depth fridges in, the hold no expenses for their kitchen remodel and then pay ZERO attention to their fridge depth, haha.

ttyymmnn > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
08/03/2017 at 10:12

We actually paid somebody to design that layout. If you look at the before pictures in my link, you can see that we gained a whole bunch of counter space, plus a huge pantry with sliding shelves. However, finding that CD fridge was a major pain in the ass. We actually lost some interior cu ft over our old, deep fridge, even though the new one is taller and wider. The old fridge is now living in the garage next to the freezer. It’s actually nice having extra fridge space. Not at all for keeping beer cold. Nope.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > ttyymmnn
08/03/2017 at 10:20

Ah nice, I have plans to put a pantry in at a later date. I bet it’s nice to have one. I had to go down in fridge size, but our new fridge layout makes so much more sense that it wasn’t too big a deal. We went from a side by side to a french door (like yours).

Amazingly I was able to sell my 10+ year old stainless side-by-side for $350! I was expecting it to be worth like $100 until I started comparing prices on CL.

ttyymmnn > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
08/03/2017 at 10:28

I am not a fan of modern fridge design. We had to look long and hard just to find one with a proper ice maker. Ours has a traditional ice maker, and cold water inside the fridge. I didn’t want to lose all that storage space in the door with ice/water dispenser.

merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
08/03/2017 at 10:29

Are you removing all the galvanized piping? If not, you should. I’m assuming you would, but figured I’d ask.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > ttyymmnn
08/03/2017 at 10:36

That’s how ours is, less things to go wrong too.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc
08/03/2017 at 10:39

I had a plumber in and he said for now what galvanized I still have is flowing fine, but there could come a time where the water pressure will be too low.

I already have copper going to my upstairs, so he’d just need to redo the basement and the pipes feeding anything downstairs, he quoted me $800 for that re-pipe.

I’m in an 8-unit townhome building, and they are all fed with galvanized, it might be worth replacing that too. Although he did mention that cold lines are affected much less by corrosion/build-up than the hot lines.

Little Black Coupe Turned Silver > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
08/03/2017 at 11:32

You would hate my peasant kitchen. I don’t have a special fridge cabinet, and it’s at the end so the whole non-stainless side is exposed.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Little Black Coupe Turned Silver
08/03/2017 at 11:45

That’s better though, at least it doesn’t look crazy out of place that way. My main problem is that if people are going to do a fridge cabinet, they should do it right.

merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
08/03/2017 at 23:49

Yeah I’ve known some folks that had the galvanized and copper piping and the flow was awful. When they had it switched out it was amazing how much better it was.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc
08/04/2017 at 08:14

Based on what plumbers have been telling me, copper isn’t the culprit there. It’s the galvanized the clogs up, especially the hot side.

merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
08/04/2017 at 10:04

Yeah the galv pipe will plug right up.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc
08/04/2017 at 10:08

yeah my plumber showed me the inside of mine. He said it was better than he expected, but still bad lol. You could still see through the pipe, lol.