kitchen: off the wall

You might remember that we ended our kitchen "demo" with cabinets still on the walls on Sunday night. After removing all of the nails holding the cabinets to the wall above the fridge we discovered that we'd have to remove the cabinets above the dishwasher first.

We hung up our toolbelts for the time being but attacked our project again last night. And this time, we won. Booya.

Nick put one screw back into the first cabinet to make sure it didn't come crashing down when we yanked out the next cabinet. And then we started yanking.

You guys, I had no idea it could be so difficult to get cabinets off of walls! From your comments on Monday, though, I see that we're not alone. Finally, we did get both sets off the wall. Hallelujah.

We're leaving the cabinets up on the interior wall for now, just to cut down on the chaos while we figure out how the insulation is actually going to work. We know there's some (paltry) insulation in (some of) the walls now, so we're concerned that it could interfere with our efforts to spray insulation down from the top. As a back-up plan we're prepared to (*gulp*) tear out the drywall from the ceiling to the top of the backsplash. That would give us the room we need to pull out the existing insulation and do the job right. We'll see what we find in our exploration of the interior of our walls.

Speaking of exploration, before we start drilling into the walls we need to figure out where the electrical wires run through the walls. Logically, we know where the wires should be. Except this is our house, which is entirely illogical. So we're proceeding with caution and some research. And maybe a crossed finger or two.