Thursday, February 18, 2010

Ovens, Ovens are Installed! Oh Joy!

The two oven stack has been installed, tried to put them in the truck bed myself and with Kelly's help but it wasn't enough, so went next door to Vern's house and asked if he'd lend a hand. That was all it took and they were in on their back in the truck and ready to take across town to be installed. Vern drove over and with his hand-truck we were able to get them into the house with a bit of grunting and groaning, they weigh about 350 lbs. The new built-in cabinet has been nearly completed except for mouldings so it was time to install. Kelly and I tried the old stack 2X4 pieces to make up the 12" height necessary to set the bottom of the stove at the correct height to match the countertop's 36" height. We abandoned THAT little task at about 8" off the floor as it was getting more and more unsteady as we got higher and higher. Soooo...off I went home to get my hydralic car jack for the task at hand instead. Back at the kitchen-of-doom I ran the jack under the oven stack and attempted to jack the bloody thing up...and failed. The jack's piston was stuck and refused to move, thus no jacking action from that device. So off I went to the local auto parts store to buy another one credit card in hand. I found a nicely boxed 2.5 ton lifting capacity one for 49.95 plus tax and away I went purchase in hand. Back at it, the jack performed admirably, we jacked it up and shortly had inserted it into the cabinet successfully. I added the side mouldings and turned the ovens on in turn to test them as that had not been done since we purchased them some months ago. All is well, I set the clock time on the stack and put the tools away, another day of fruitful labors in the Kitchen-Of-Doom was done.