Ice, Ice Baby

My post from last week on the Mooney kitchen was upbeat and positive-I guess a little too upbeat and positive as the very next day Mother Nature presented us with a problem.  Stephanie, our Project Manager, had gone to the job site to check on progress and drop off some materials.  She noticed that the newly sheetrocked kitchen ceiling looked as though it were sagging.  She contacted the sheetrock installer who went to the job site and when he began to take some of the tape down from the seams, water began to drip out from between them.  He immediately stopped and put down a bucket, then gave us the bad news.  Our concern was the possibility of a pipe leaking, as we had had to move some plumbing when we relocated the doorway into the dining room from the kitchen.  The culprit turned out to be an ice dam on the eaves of the house which was forcing water inside, running down the joists and dripping onto the fresh sheetrock.  Luckily, we discovered this problem early before it became a major issue.  The homeowner has worked to get the roof and ice dams cleared, but the ceiling will need to be removed and the cabinets, which had also just been installed, taken down so that new material can be put back up.  Just reminds me that anything can happen at any time and you really can’t mess with Mother Nature, she calls the shots.  This winter she is really making herself heard with record setting snow and ice.  The good news is that according to Punxsutawney Phil, we’re due for an early spring.   Despite this set back, Stephanie has been able to get the project back on track scheduling one of our contractors to return to cordon off the kitchen from the rest of the house and uninstall cabinetry, then our sheetrock installer will come and put up new material.  The countertops are scheduled to go in next week so those will need to be covered and protected while this other work is going on.  With KBDC it does all fall into place...



The culprit-record setting ice
and snow





Water from the melting ice makes
its way over the kitchen area.





The cabinets had been installed-you
can start to see the kitchen
coming together.





The new cooktop and
wall ovens will go here.





New location for the frig as well as the
doorway into the formal dining room.