The Good Banter Thread

[addy1]

New fridge will be here Wednesday! Yeah! Luckily it has been cold enough to keep the coolers outside cold, without ice. We use a temp probe to make sure the food is staying in the safe range.
Next we need hot water..............honey says in the next few weeks. Needs to be warmer to run the iron piping for the propane.

 

[sissy]

I had granite and hated that it stained and this time went with quartz it is so easy to maintain a stain you just buff it and a scratch the same thing .Plus quartz was so much cheaper and you don't have to seal it 2 times a year .Cabinets to go is great that is where my sister ordered her doors and drawer boxes from .Much easier to order drawer boxes that to take the time to build them .My fridge went out after a bad storm and then it got steamy hot so had to buy a mini fridge .I put the mini fridge out in the guest house so it did not get wasted .My son uses it out there when he is doing all his ebay stuff

 

[j.w]

Will be fun watching you guys re-do the kitchen addy. Hope you will post more pix as you go. Hope you get all this done before the weather turns warm cuz you know you will need to be outside then or you get fined by the pond police

 

[sissy]

It is fun to redo a kitchen but can be frustrating also .It just takes time and since addy and her hubby have done it before it should be a breeze for them .Wish I could work in the basement on stuff but company was exhausted ,they tried to beat the storm out to get here from NJ .They were going to call today and tell me they were coming some time next week ,but old man winter changed all of that .Can't do much but figure everything out .I don't want to finish them because then the projects would be to heavy for me to move .The swing is going on the back deck and the bench table and chairs are going on the front porch .Going to lower swing when i put it up so my little chi. friends can get up with out having to make me bend over to pick them up every 2 seconds .With them it is up and down ,up and down again and again

 

[addy1]

The granite slabs come at different levels of porosity. Of all the granite counters I have had, only one stained a little bit, none got coated twice a year, actually never.
The stuff we are getting is real dense, I have a peace of it here, even tried to stain it, just to see, nothing sinks in. We need three slabs, they had three all the same lot number which is important.

"Granite is a porous stone and the degree of porosity varies depending upon the exact mineral make up of the particular granite you have selected. However, being porous does not mean that you should be unduly concerned with bacteria growth. Bacteria require several things in order to thrive and grow: oxygen, water, sunlight, nutrients, and a substrate to form on. The minerals in granite are toxic to bacteria. As a result, there is no habitable environment for the bacteria to live and grow on a granite surface."

.It just takes time and since addy and her hubby have done it before it should be a breeze for them .

sort of..............usually once you go to hang the cabinets the walls are crooked, not square, the tiles never end where the electric box is, miserable cutting out the box hole. We do have a hand tile saw, had to buy it for one of the projects. We have lots of work ahead of us, at least we will have a fridge again. Cabinets will be here in around two weeks, then tile, then call for granite measuring.

I enjoy it, love to see the change as you go forward, and so look forward to this change. Our own upgrade!

 

[sissy]

Quartz has a anti microbial in it also .But I am bad with counter tops and so far so good .I even had plywood put under my counters because I have a habit if I have to reach something I will step on them from the step stool .Plus here you don't have much choice in counter tops or colors .Most here do not spend much on them .All I saw was black or brown .Lowes and home depot are more expensive than a regular counter top place .I wanted the glass infused counter tops but the guy made a big mistake cutting them and then second ones they broke the whole end of it and gave up .I needed counter tops

 

[addy1]

Hd and lowes were way more expensive then the granite store. They have been in business since 1971, daughter running it now.

They had different levels of cost, we went for the basic. The more exotic colors, like all white with some gray went up 25-50% in price.

 

[sissy]

yeh that's what the stone store told me here but I wanted grey like I had in NJ but it was expensive and then he showed me other stuff and I loved the quartz and it was actually cheaper than laminate which surprised me .They grey colors were not to outlandish or over powering .I wanted something that would appeal to other people if I sell .He even gave a senior discount

 

[sissy]

46 degrees and no rain or anything yet .Not much wind blowing

 

[addy1]

The snow prediction keeps changing up to 8 down to 3 sort of an unknown like usual, just depends on the cold getting here with the wet warm. Sounds like new york is being smacked.

We were going to look at stone, but I fell in love with the granite we found so stayed with it. We even thought of butcher block.

 

[mrsclem]

Have never resealed our granite. I have the sealer but just haven't found time. It is a dark green, gold and black so doesn't show stains. Never do a kitchen remodel over the holidays- not fun doing dished in the bath tub!

 

[addy1]

not fun doing dished in the bath tub!

One place we redid, down in florida, we went insane, ripped out the kitchen, bathroom, sinks, Then went opps ............luckily stopped before the last bathroom was gone. Dishes in the bathroom sink or tub. We were tearing down the kitchen wall, which messed with all the electricity, it all ran through that one wall stuffed into some conduit. That was a 1.5 year project, honey was still working. We would go down for a week or two work our butts off then come home exhausted.

We are slowing things down, taking our time now on projects.

 

[sissy]

Heck of a vacation addy .I was lucky I had the gas grill and an electric fry pan and a toaster oven ,but even that got old fast .I used paper plates and cups .I packed the dishes away so they would not use them while I was at work and then I would come home to a lot of dirty dishes .I didn't even mark the boxes so they could find them .They hated the plastic utensils the most .To bad

 

[addy1]

lol It is surprising how little you can survive on . We had a george foreman cooking pot, found out you can make just about any food you want to in it. Not always the easiest but it worked.

 

[mrsclem]

Just got a call from Lowes. The new machines are coming tomorrow! Hoping the tight quarters won't be an issue for the install.