Kitchen Plumbing

As many of you already know, we are doing this renovation all on our own; however, there are jobs that we decided we should not do on our own: plumbing and some electrical.

For the plumbing we went with a friend's neighbor who has his own business. His quote was good and he was prompt coming out to give it. That's where it ended. He never had time to come out and actually do the work and he just stopped returning our calls. The thing about renovations is one job is always dependent upon another one getting completed. Moving the sink was one of those jobs. We could not install drywall, cabinets, or have the granite measuring take place until our sink was moved.

We eventually looked up new plumbers and came across one one Angie's List that had great reviews. They came out the next day with a quote (that was 2 1/2 times more than the first guy) but they promised to have the job done in 1 1/2 days. Time meant everything to us at that point and I couldn't afford to have days go by and nothing getting done in our kitchen. We coughed up the dough and now the sink is moved, new gas line installed for the range, and the water line for the refrigerator has been set up.

             These are the sink pipes moved. We decided to pour the concrete over them ourselves.

Here is the gas line installed and you can see the refrigerator copper coil for the water to the right of the picture.