31 Days of the Kitchen: Day Four

It’s the fourth day of the kitchen project, and the past two days haven’t been too impressive. Not much progress made. So today, I got working on the project a little earlier today, with the goal of getting more cabling done. I had two cables in place, and some work done on a third, so I needed to finish the third, and I was hoping to have enough cable left over for a fourth.

Starting with the tubing in the basement, I replaced some plastic anchors that were the wrong size, did some extra work to cut some tubes which I had already put in place, but were a little too long, and got things set up a little better.

Each plastic tube can only fit two cables, so I got a second set of tubes up with the third wire in place, and measured exactly how much cable I needed to get each cable to the refrigerator, oven, and range, respectively. I was very pleased to find that after having cut the third cable, I had room for a fourth. It took some more work to get that fourth cable into the second set of tubes and fed up through the ceiling into the kitchen, but it fit just fine, and now I have a cable for the hood as well.

With that done, I started on the kitchen wall, making holes for the electrical sockets for the oven and hood. The range doesn’t need a socket, as the range will have to tie in directly to an electric cable in the wall. The electric cables take a path from the wall, to the refrigerator socket, to the oven socket, to the range, and up to the hood.

From there, I needed a way to feed the cables through the wall all throughout this path in the wall. I opted for the easiest path for myself, which is simply to cut away the drywall on the whole path. It’s a bit ugly, but the wall is a weird material with no actual space in the interior, so it would have been difficult to try and break up the cardboard cubic forms behind the drywall without accessing them directly. This way, I simply cut away the drywall, removed the cardboard, fed the electric cables through, and will have to plaster over the cables to fill in the wall.

I started on the plastering up top where the hood is first. The goal is to get this portion done so that I can put the board back up which forms the back of the upper cabinets, and do the upper cabinetry.

The one thing that I am skipping by working this way is connecting the eletric cables to the circuit breaker, finishing the eletric sockets, and testing the appliances. I’m certain that there won’t be an issue with the appliances, and even if there was, having the wires plastered over wouldn’t be an issue.

I stopped work there, with some of the plaster done, and the wires sticking out of the wall. The next step is to smooth out some plaster work, and then get the board back up, and continue the upper cabinets.