The Wirerabbit: Counter Tops

On our first day off, we were all ready to do the counter tops when we realized that we had several things to do before we got carried away with the fun stuff. First we had to finish parts of the floor cabinets. However, the main thing was building up the counters so that the rather large tile edge pieces would not cover up the drawer and door openings to the cabinets. This means that we have higher than average counters, but the edge pieces are quite nice, so it was worth the extra work. Here is Taylor working on adding more wood to the tops.

Taylor has injured his right shoulder and has shooting pain down his arm, which means that he should be going to physical therapy and NOT using his arm, but there is no injury recovery scheduled into the dreaded list. I am trying to do all the heavy lifting and other things that strain his shoulder. Here I'm putting in screws in a hard-to-reach area. It means that I get to work some power tools. Taylor doesn't share his toys very well, but now he has to.

All of our animals are terribly neglected these days. They aren't getting all the love and attention they are used to because we work through the evening. Here is Eunie, our male cat, trying to climb up the back of Taylor's legs to get his attention. This is a new behavior for Eunie, so we know he's getting desperate.

This morning Taylor put in the backer board. He thinks he's bad 'cause it's all going so smoothly now.

Here I am laying out the tile pattern on the floor. It will go on the wall at the sink.

It took 2 and half days to finally get to install tiles, but when all the preparation was done, it took Taylor only about 3 hours to lay all the tiles for the main counter. He's really pleased with my choice of granite tiles because they butt right up to each other and there will hardly be any grout between them. Tomorrow we will do the back-splash.