Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days

[FairfaxStu]

Wow, Wow. The incompetence here boggles my my mind and all the way down to my scrotum. Again, like with the downspouts, you would like to think that the installer realized that something was wrong and corrected for it in the field. Example being not installing the uppers and letting you know the issue right away. I think that whoever ordered the cabinets took into account the soffit only in part of the kitchen. Again, whatever you do, do not let them measure and cut the countertops until this is resolved.
-Stu

 

[Ted Summey]

That cabinet job of all the screw ups on this job rates up there with the wavy fascia cladding - simply unacceptable. Hopefully the builder will examine this and do the right thing.

I agree with the post above, there's no way you can proceed with countertops until the entire cabinet job is acceptable in fit and finish.

 

[EddieWalker]

Like the others have said, you have the wrong sized upper cabinets.

I'm wondering how much of the problem is the rush to get it done. Quality takes times. Cut, fit and finish takes time. The better the finish, the more time it takes. This house is grossly expensive for what you are getting in square footage and a rather simple design, so I've just assumed the cost has to be based on the speed that it's being done. While I agree with the others that the contractor isn't building the a house that reflects attention to detail or any sense of pride in workmanship, he is doing it extremely quickly and I am impressed with how fast it's all happening.

Is the goal to have it done right away or to build the nicest house you can? The advice that I'm reading reflects quality workmanship, but from the beginning, it's been all about getting it done quickly.

Maybe it's just me, but I tell my clients that it will take me as long as it takes to do it to the job so that I'm confident that it's done right. Just a big bathroom remodel for me takes a month, and that's an existing house with everything already there!!!!

Eddie

 

[MacLawn]

Right on, Eddie, right on. Uh, that means I agree!

 

[BuilderML]

Your uppers are the wrong height. Look on the bright side at least the guys don't have any crown to do around the cabinets. By the way if you met with the builder (or supervisor} onsite and he saw the kitchen with the heights of the cabinets the way they are and said nothing i would kick his a** out and not let him back.To not be able to see 6" on height like that tells me he is walking around with his eyes closed. Is that really someone you want watching the project????
Hope things work out for you.

 

[ThomasH]

I had a cabinet shop during the 80s. The standard height of the finished top on the base cabinets is 25 - 25 1/2". That means 24" base cabinets plus tops. The standard spacing above the base top to the underside of the wall cabinets is 18". Many countertop appliances are designed around that number, like coffee makers and blenders, are typically about 16" high. Sometimes a 19" space would be specified in order to support under the counter lighting and a small skirt to hide it.

The height of the wall cabinets depended on the customer and ceiling height, but 30" - 36" units are typically used in rooms with an 8 - 9' ceiling. Depends on the height whether the top of the wall cabinets were high, to nail crown molding to, or there was a chase built above. Sometimes the wall cabinets would stop shy of the ceiling in order to have indirect fluorescent lighting installed on top of it. When that was the case there was always crown molding installed at the top of the wall units.

 

[J F]

I had a cabinet shop during the 80s. The standard height of the finished top on the base cabinets is 25 - 25 1/2". That means 24" base cabinets plus tops.

People must have grown quite a bit since then Thomas. :laughing: It's actually 36" for the finished top of a base cabinet (for a kitchen...for a bathroom it's 33", but a lot of folks now choose 36" for the bathroom as well).

 

[dave1949]

People must have grown quite a bit since then Thomas. :laughing: It's actually 36" for the finished top of a base cabinet (for a kitchen...for a bathroom it's 33", but a lot of folks now choose 36" for the bathroom as well).

I shrank 1-1/4" since the '80's.

For an average height adult, the bathroom vanity height is either low enough to make your back sore, or high enough to make the water run down to your elbows and drip on the floor. Those are the ONLY available heights. :laughing:

 

[J F]

:laughing: There's always cu$tom, Dave. I was just seeing "tiny people" using the 25" tall base cabinets from Thomas's post.

 

[dave1949]

:laughing: There's always cu$tom, Dave. I was just seeing "tiny people" using the 25" tall base cabinets from Thomas's post.

I've seen very low base cabinets in the 25" range, put they were very old, in Europe. Picture an old granny standing about 4'-5" stirring a pot that is 18" deep.:stirthepot: