Small doors, short cabinets
Well, today was the day we got our new fridge. It is just as pretty as I remembered from the store. The adventures of our getting the old fridge out of the house and the new one in made for quite the day. It started out with me emptying everything from the old fridge so that it could be taken to the dump. This was uneventful enough, though I did discover 4 mayonnaise containers, probably a little excessive... Next, the delivery guys showed up. Nice enough guys, I like anyone willing to lift a fridge for me :) We then discovered that the fridge was too wide to fit through the entrance and through the front door (which we has to take off its hinges since the front entrace in our house is a little tight). Easy enough, we thought, just take the doors off. We cut through the water system figuring that the dump probably didn't need a built in water system. With the doors off, the fridge made it out of the house, but just barely. Our next obstacle was at the front gate, which the fridge, even without doors, was too wide to get through. This was finally resolved after many different drill bits and sizes of torque wrenches, by taking off the gate. Mission accomplished. Fridge was at the truck.
Next came the new fridge. The doors were on, and again we ran into an obstacle at the front gate. Too small, even with the gate off. We fixed this by taking off a piece of wood that was needed for the gate to close against, but figured it wasn't really necessary when there was no gate there to close. We made it through the door relatively unscathed, but then realized that the front entrance way was too small due to a doorjamb sticking out 1/2 an inch from the wall. Out the fridge went, and the door to the freezer on the bottom was taken off. After some measuring by yours truly we decided that the fridge could now make it through the entrance way (for reasons that will soon be understood, this could have been a fatal error). The fridge did however make it through, and we finally had it in the kitchen. We went to push it into place, and then realized that it was at least an inch taller than the bottom of the cabinets above it... uh oh (this was when we decided that maybe I shouldn't be allowed to measure things, I had to have been off by like 3 inches for this to have happened, an impressive accomplishment, if I do say so myself).
At this point, we let the delivery guys go. By this point, I was of the perspective that they were quite awesome for having put up with all the above mentioned crap, while carrying various kitchen appliances (say what you will about that being their job, you couldn't pay me enough to lift a fridge for a living, they are HEAVY). We then proceeded to stare at our too tall fridge, and come up with a was to fix this. Mairi came home at this point, ooohed and aaaahed at the fridge, and had a bit of a laugh at our predicament. We eventually decided that the way to go would be to take the cabinet off the way, cut 1 and a half inches off the bottom, and put it back up. Easier said than done. Our drill was dead, so Mike had to unscrew it from the wall by hand while Mairi and I held the cabinet above us. One off, I called my dad to find out if we could use his table saw. He, fortunately, has lots and lots of tools and really likes getting to use them. We dismanteled the cabinet (by we, I do mean the royal we, and by that I mean Mike), and made our way out to my dad's. He and Mike cut down the cabinet, redrilled all the necessary holes, and even put it back together. We had dinner, watched a movie, then Mike and I were back home. Tomorrow, we'll put the cabinet back on, and try not to wreck anything. Should be interesting. After today, I'm pretty sure we'll manage to screw something up...
Next came the new fridge. The doors were on, and again we ran into an obstacle at the front gate. Too small, even with the gate off. We fixed this by taking off a piece of wood that was needed for the gate to close against, but figured it wasn't really necessary when there was no gate there to close. We made it through the door relatively unscathed, but then realized that the front entrance way was too small due to a doorjamb sticking out 1/2 an inch from the wall. Out the fridge went, and the door to the freezer on the bottom was taken off. After some measuring by yours truly we decided that the fridge could now make it through the entrance way (for reasons that will soon be understood, this could have been a fatal error). The fridge did however make it through, and we finally had it in the kitchen. We went to push it into place, and then realized that it was at least an inch taller than the bottom of the cabinets above it... uh oh (this was when we decided that maybe I shouldn't be allowed to measure things, I had to have been off by like 3 inches for this to have happened, an impressive accomplishment, if I do say so myself).
At this point, we let the delivery guys go. By this point, I was of the perspective that they were quite awesome for having put up with all the above mentioned crap, while carrying various kitchen appliances (say what you will about that being their job, you couldn't pay me enough to lift a fridge for a living, they are HEAVY). We then proceeded to stare at our too tall fridge, and come up with a was to fix this. Mairi came home at this point, ooohed and aaaahed at the fridge, and had a bit of a laugh at our predicament. We eventually decided that the way to go would be to take the cabinet off the way, cut 1 and a half inches off the bottom, and put it back up. Easier said than done. Our drill was dead, so Mike had to unscrew it from the wall by hand while Mairi and I held the cabinet above us. One off, I called my dad to find out if we could use his table saw. He, fortunately, has lots and lots of tools and really likes getting to use them. We dismanteled the cabinet (by we, I do mean the royal we, and by that I mean Mike), and made our way out to my dad's. He and Mike cut down the cabinet, redrilled all the necessary holes, and even put it back together. We had dinner, watched a movie, then Mike and I were back home. Tomorrow, we'll put the cabinet back on, and try not to wreck anything. Should be interesting. After today, I'm pretty sure we'll manage to screw something up...
