More hard work

Today we had a handyman here fixing our glass-fronted Ikea cabinet doors. It's funny because Ikea is a "DIY" (do it yourself) place but we had to have someone come in and get these doors working right. Our original contractor installed them, and the right door fell once, was re-installed and fell again. The left door fell once before we resigned to keeping it on the floor. The thing is, as incompetent as he was, I don't think he screwed this up. The design of connector between these doors and the frame is just really bad. There is a metal disk inside a channel that has "wings" and when you turn the disk with a special tool the wings wedge into the channel (supposedly). This part wasn't available for 3 months when I tried to buy it last year due to a "design problem." I guess they haven't solved it yet! The handyman (and his assistant, who is a retired licensed general contractor) took the doors and pre-drilled holes in the channel and used a rivet gun to put 4 rivets in to hang the door from the connector. I wonder what other people have done who bought this door? It wasn't a particularly hard job, it was just a good candidate to outsource because it wasn't critical and I didn't have a specific idea in mind other than the doors had to work and not fall down. Also, we didn't want to buy a rivet gun for this one purpose. Well, truth be told I've never heard of a rivet gun so his knowledge of how to fix it was what we paid for.

He also fixed a broken fascia board that our prior, incompetent contractor (can I shorten that to PIC?) broke while on bobcat (like a small bulldozer) in the backyard. That was quite a drama - check it out here.

Today was really hot, and I had to finish the remaining 3 stucco samples. I wanted them up so they have time to dry and I can live with the colors for at least a few days before making my choice.

Here is a picture of the glass cabinet door, properly hung. They slide side to side. We had wiring put in for in-cabinet lighting, so eventually this will be really cool. We are gradually changing our dishware over to Fiesta Ware in a deep red color, so the cabinet will not only hold our dishes but it will be a work of art. I love the idea of a dark kitchen lit only by the light shining through the frosted glass door highlighting our deep red dishes.






Here is the new, fixed fascia board. Not too exciting but necessary before we can have the trim painted, which will be after the stucco.