Home improvement?

[Ed Pawlowski]

For the lesser skilled

[angelica...]

I like the final picture. The jumble of wires fits in nicely with the wallpaper pattern.

Cindy Hamilton

[Anonymous]

In the 1st pic with dishwasher, what is that thing under the window ?

[Hawk]

The outlet?

[micky]

I ddin't understand the second one, the little stainless sink the corner with cabinets underneath.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Look again and notice how the cabinets and countertop align.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Looks like something to house a curtain or shade but that normally would be above. Slot looks too narrow for a planter.

[invalid unparseable]

I assume they are sneering about the fact that the cupboard under the sink sticks out past the counter top on the right hand end.

[gfretwell]

One of my wife's favorites was "pros" screwing up and nobody saying anything. The framers screwed up the truss package and there was a 2x4 sticking out into the room. The rockers drywalled around it, the trim carpenter put crown around it and the painters painted it. She caught it doing the QA where another FM looks at a colleague's house. She says guys never look up.

Then there was the house they built in the road. (it was on the wrong side of the survey stakes). Nobody caught that either. They ended up having to replat the road. and swap 4 lots. It was lucky they didn't do the house behind it yet. That is the danger when you are prairie building

[angelica...]

Everything. The sink, countertop cut, and cupboard should all be parallel. None of them are.

The countertop cut should be the same angle at both ends, but it looks like the left-hand cut is more obtuse than the right-hand cut.

Cindy Hamilton

[hubops]

I was wondering the same thing. John T.

[T]

Laughed pretty hard!

[Neill Massello]

It's a bad execution of a bad idea. Corner sinks suck.

[micky]

Oh, yeah. How did I miss that. That would drive me crazy.

[micky]

My question too.

So all they have to do is take it off

Though I'm n ot sure it 's a good idea to put the dishwasher right against the wall. If there's an earthquake it won't open anymore.

It will hit the electric outlet.

[micky]

It wasn't so much a mistake but that the trim guy showed up before the tile floor in the front hall was done. In a house a co-worker was building. So the guy put the baseboards just above the tile where there was tile, and just above the subfloor where there was no tile. I guess you could have a robot do his job.

They had a powder room just off the front hall, and the made the door open inward. So once you were inside you were in the way to shut the door and the door was in the way if you wanted to use the toilet. My house cost 1/3 of what hers did but at least my powder room door opens outward.

[rbowman]

That is normal in Micky's World.

[gfretwell]

Scheduling your trades is perhaps the most important part of building a house. Some you can stack, others need the house to themselves but there is always a sequence that must be followed. It was my wife's specialty. She had the kitchen and bath trick down and was knocking them out almost twice as fast as the guys. When you are building production houses, even expensive ones, time is money. Her typical bonus per house was $4,000 - $6,000 there towards the end. (Based on completion time, under budget and customer satisfaction)

[Clare Snyder]

Mikey's seen so many done that way it didn't register??

[angelica...]

They suck, but sometimes they're unavoidable. My first house had one, and when we remodeled the kitchen we left the sink in the corner.

I wash every conceivable thing in the dishwasher, so I never spent much time standing at the corner sink.

Cindy Hamilton