There is one man with one tooth installing the range hood. It took him 2 hours to read and understand the directions. I did see lots of 2x4's being attached to the joists in the ceiling (the duct cover will hide all that). This is a 42" wide Independent 1200cfm hood. Weighs about 90 lbs. The range is in place. He hung from the 2x4s to guarantee their strength.

I just had to go.

He hasn't cut the 10" hole into the house yet. I certainly don't want to be there for that. I will go back about 3:30--they usually knock off at 4.

I'll post pictures later.

Good luck....

My dh stopped by at lunch to check in on him. He was out getting some HVAC parts. He said it looked ok.

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I ended a note to the builder the other day with "I'm going to go throw up now". He feels my last-week stress. He's building next door! He gets it!

Weimom--sneak up, snap photos and post here. It will help with distracting me. All I'm doing is laundry. Washing bedding for new house and trying to pack. Do it!!!

The guy who delivered our brick had a few teeth missing, and his jeans were so torn up there was more skin than cloth on his legs.

I get it. The guy showing up has the other tooth.

OK. Enough. I'm cringing in my seat for you.
I'm off to work but will be thinking of you! :)

I generally don't leave children unsupervised either.

Just know the counters are fine. The range is fine.

My husband took his blood pressure medicine so that's ok.

All I can say is I know how he lost the teeth. I don't think it was due to bad water or lack of dental care.

Not a friendly email being sent right about now from dh to foreman. Talk to you about it later.

But they kept reassuring me, " ok to American code"

Yikes, Bee, that sounds a bit ominous. I hope everything turns out OK.

I just hope all is OK with Bee and Mr. Bee.

PS. And I want to know how he lost all but one tooth.

((( )))

Went in around 3:30. He was gone. I'm sure it was a very stressful day for him since he has never seen anything like a real hood before.

The hood was up, the lights do work.

On the island are two interesting items, no, 3.

1. The broken knob to turn the fan on. (hopefully a universal part, not something I ever dreamed would be an issue by buying a defunct company's fan. I was more worried about motors, etc.

2. The connectors were cut off laying there. Why the h*ll do you cut off connectors when all you have to do is plug one into the other? My dh too great pains to have this correctly set up so that it would not be too difficult for them. Apparently electrical is not his "thing" either because there is a hand written note on the cardboard with the words "My Guess" followed by some sort of electrical words .....right then Mr. Bee lost it.

3. He is struggling to get the duct work through the wall, there is a double layer of 2x4s at the top of the wall where he is trying to have it exit. He's trying to cut down the height of the vent duct he bought.

He's in over his head.

The job supervisor is off today but did respond to my dh's email. He will send an electrician to verify this is wired correctly and safely.

The hvac company was in the house late yesterday to do the blower test, when they test the tightness of the house. He told me that they could make the part necessary . Someone needs to tell this guy.

On a side note: The house was very tight they said. He also told me that the local inspectors are not enforcing any issues about makeup air now. When they redo the code they will. I told him I don't mind at all cracking a window, actually enjoy it when cooking. He said that is fine.

Oh, and then when I was leaving, I was last one out of house, I realized that the plumbers left their giant trailer in the driveway overnight. No big deal. But wait, maybe it is...they are paving the driveway today. The plumbers are Amish, someone drops them off and pulls the trailer for them. Hopefully their driver can come back and move the trailer when they hear the news today. (My tub is sitting in the middle of the room, just waiting to be installed....it made it through all the doors. Yay

*sigh*

I guess another reason for so much anger--this is the ONE thing the builder was responsible for in this kitchen. ONE. We got Dutch Wood, we sourced the granite because the place they used was not very good (did I mention my neighbor with the kitchen counters with an edge that changes in the kichen from one style to another?) we sourced the appliances and turns out I paid to have them installed...need to make a call about that because I thought buying this much $$ worth of appliances the stinking $100/appliance installation charge would have been waived or decreased, but I digress. They hood has been in the house since April (per their request) so they could get it up and read the instructions ahead of time......oh well. Nothing like getting it in place a week before settlement. maybe getting it in place.

I am a worrier, always have been but usually it is about my family and things going on here.
I swear I think that kitchen of yours that I have been following so closely really is mine.

I have an older kitchen which will never be updated so I just enjoy your process. Glad to read that the problems will be taken care of.

But the plumber was there. He got my tub in. It's like a roller coaster of emotions....

sick to the stomach....

And Joyful!

Sorry many of you thought of me and couldn't sleep. It really does reinforce the sense of community we have here and how we are holding each others hands virtually.

Thanks
Bee

It's not like the site supervisor is the only person who can fix the placement.

Amen. Somehow this message has been lost from this thread. It would be kinda' nice to hear that the jokesters who are reveling in this human being's misfortune are dedicating 5% of their kitchen remodeling budget to a dental fund for the guy.

Sorry, but I don't see the humor.

But really folks. This is not about the man's tooth. It was to paint the picture of the guy hanging from the 2x4s he installed in my kitchen. He isn't poor, he has a good job with a large company that does include health and dental benefits and vacation too! He is not a subcontractor who lives in the mountains and they picked him up standing outside at Home Depot to come work on my house for the day. My beef isn't with him, just so you all know. He is a very nice guy who is trying his best. The builder should be sending someone who knows how to install a range hood to do the job. If it was above this guy's level of skill, perhaps a call to a local hvac company or an appliance store could have had the job done lickety-split and correctly. The deal was that the builder was going to install all the appliances we bought. This is the only one they have to install. (and he pushed the 2 drawer under counter freezer into place for us)

We are supposed to take possession of this house on Friday. We took the hood to the job site back in April. It has sat there on the floor all this time, because "we are getting to it"......We are down to under a week. I still need to take the duct cover back to the fabricator to have it cut to its exact dimensions now. I'm not sure if that can be done in this short of a time. Hopefully the lack of a duct cover will not cause them to fail any inspections.....especially if the inspector looks closely at what's happening up there...

sorry if any of you were offended.

I'll post pictures when everything is done.

Bee

And yes, I think we should expect "so much" from people. Is it really so much for someone to be considerate of someone else's things? People should and do know better, they just tend not to care enough to be bothered. If we expect less from them, that's just what they'll give us and the next person's house/furniture/etc they work on. People tend to live up to the standards you expect out of them...at least the ones who half way care do.