Frustrations would be my new title of this thread after today.
After busting my hump putting up all that paint over the weekend for cabinets to be installed on Monday, the construction crew showed up without 1/2" plywood necessary to set the lower cabinets on the same plane as the flooring I will be installing after they get done. After three hours of waiting for the plywood which never came, rather than move onto anything else, like installing the upper cabinets, they left and I never saw them again until this morning.
They showed up late this morning with the plywood and started setting cabinets but ran into two problems. On the left wall in the photo, the gas pipe for the cooktop comes up through the floor. The problem is the cabinet that holds the gas cooktop has two full depth drawers so the gas pipe needs to be put within the wall cavity and come through the back of the cabinet above the top drawer. A pretty simple task but for liability reasons, the contractor has to have the plumber do the work and last time, the plumber showed up two weeks after he said he would arrive. So we are stalled out on that run of lower cabinets.
So we started working our way down the wall with the windows and were doing great until we got to the last cabinet which sits 24" away from the adjacent cabinet to allow for a standard sized dishwasher to fit between them. It was supposed to have plenty of room and came with a filler strip to take up any extra room. However, with the cabinet all the way to the wall, the dishwasher cavity is exactly an inch too narrow. I think the cabinet people forgot to take into account a 1/2" of drywall on both walls when they took their measurements.
So right now the contractor (who promises to make it right) and myself are waiting for a return call from the cabinet people to hash out options. Having done this myself, I think I know what my options will be, either make it work or they will reorder the last cabinet an inch narrower and we wait however long for it arrive, delaying this project by that much time. It took six weeks originally to get the cabinets and the project is right now, a week past the completion date and we still have to do countertops, backsplash and appliances after the cabinets are installed.
To make it work, we can cut a cabinet sized hole in the drywall to gain a half inch and with the use of a planer, gain the other half inch by removing material from the face frames. It will mean the reveal of the face frame around the last cabinet won't be the same as all the others, but perhaps won't be all that noticeable unless you are down there with a tape measure. But that is a solution we could implement tomorrow and not have to wait for a cabinet to be reordered.
So right now I'm waiting and trying to sooth over my frustrations while waiting for a return call from the cabinet company, contractor or both.