Saturday, May 19, 2007

Back in Action

Well its good to be back.
For the last several months I have not done ANY work on the basement. Instead, I was running for School Committee.
Unfortunately, I did not win.

But that was DAYS ago, so now I am back at work in the basement. Next on the list (I won't call it a "schedule", because that implies specific time frames, and clearly I have NO idea what time frames are involved here) is the laundry room counters. In recent (well, previous, but not so recent) posts I wrote about making the cabinets for the laundry room. Today I bought the counter tops and prep'ed the walls to install them (the counters).
The main counter is a right-angel seven feet long on one side, and five feet long on the other. There is another two foot section in another corner. The challenge with this installation is that there is not a continuous run of cabinets on to which the counters will be installed. There is a base cabinet under the five foot section, but no cabinets under the longer section. In that space will be laundry sorting baskets on wheels which will roll out from under the counter. Additional carts on wheels will roll under the counter into the corners at each end of the counter. A picture would probably help here. I'll work on that!

Today's task was to nail 2x3's to the walls, and attach 1x3's to the tops of the 2x4a.

The counter will rest on top of the 1x3's, and be fastened to them with screws driven up through the wood into the counters.

Tomorrow I hope to start installing the counter tops.

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