hey guys and welcome to Green Acre Homestead. I'm Angela and we're in the
middle of a budget mobile home kitchen renovation. Yesterday we got new cabinets
but today we've changed our minds. Last night we kind of mocked up the
kitchen and we were looking at it and talking about countertops and stuff and
walking in and out kind of realized that this is sticking out in the dining room
a lot more than we kind of figured it would and a lot more than it did before
and coming and looking it's gonna be really close to the window and we had
planned or later putting in French doors or sliding glass doors or something like
that and we're not we don't have enough room for even the window molding if we
keep the lazy susan and this cabinet here as we have it put right now so
we're talking about taking out the lazy susan why why would you do that I'm
adding humor yes you are now and I wanted to thank all the viewers that
commented and backed me up saying yes let her have the lazy susan thank you
for that but once I got it in and saw how much bigger it is and gonna take up
so much room and the construction isn't that good on it it's very flimsy the
like shelf part is plastic and so it won't even hold cans or anything like
that without possibly bending and breaking Sam even went to a different
store and got an upgraded model from the one we originally had looked at and even
then we're not impressed so we're gonna look at not doing an island it's not
what I originally wanted but I think it's gonna work a lot better with our
kitchen
not happy with that another thing is is we have a cabinet right here so it's
gonna be kind of awkward to like reach over this to be able to get into it and
not happy so long as all those not happy it's not at me I'm happy she's not happy
we'll make you happy don't worry happy happy happy are you
doing switching out the light on the microwave why we just got that thing
it's already burned out and what do you say that not happy no what would your
mom say what a rip there you go in the world who's that silicone yep thinking
well this one's a little bit anybody out there remember the Ernest P World Series
that's that's what we did all right so while angela is changing a light bulb
and it only takes one Angela to change the light bulb by the way I'm gonna go
ahead and start prepping the sink drain plumbing I need to glue on this coupler
did you just have an idea
I need to clone this coupler and extend the drain pipe so we can go ahead and
permanently attach the sink base cabinet now don't be sniffing it smells were
good shit in there oh gosh you're saying that about the glue writing on me yeah
okay oh you don't smell like that may be rolling yep
all right good make sure it seats down in there push it down give it a quarter
turn and happy yep awesome we're at the point where we're ready to go ahead and
start attaching the cabinet to the wall but not all the way you want to leave a
little bit of gap with the screw at the wall so you have flexibility to move it
around as you need to for the rest of the cabinet so they all match
beside the sink we're going to have our dishwasher if we're a dishwasher rough
opening you want it exactly 24 inches wide so I messed up that new outlet that
I put in the wall for the dishwasher is right behind this cabinet it's not
behind where the dishwasher is I don't know how I messed up but I did so I'm
going to do is pull this cabinet out measure mark and I'll cut a square in
the back panel of this cabinet for the dishwasher to come through and plug up
it'll be okay it's not ideal but it's better than pulling the drywall down and
running new wires I've marked my hole to cut out and it is larger than the outlet
because I want to be able to have access to this in the future to get the
faceplate off an outlet and everything this hole is not going to mess with the
structural integrity of the cabinet so no worries there go ahead and use my
oscillating cut-off tool and my carbide tip blade to make this pretty quick cut
all right so the hole is cut in here now before I go getting happy with cabinet
installs and put this on the wall I'm gonna wire this out and everything
because I'll fit here much better than I will fit here trust me hailer just asked
me why I didn't histology if I outlet in here and I figured it's a good thing
that most of you probably also wondering yourself there's a pretty much one
reason not to it's because if that ever trips what would it take to get in there
and resent that outlet we'd have to pull the dishwasher out or pull the cabinet
out another reason is GFI's are designed to be the outlet that's in between
electricity in humans with water basically you know if I put my hand in
water and there's electricity in the water somehow an outlet on the wall
behind the dishwasher unless this house is flooded twelve inches is not going to
be in the water and my hands are not going to be back there unless the powers
off so it's good as far as the GFI circuit trip type functionality that's
what happens at the breaker in the panel and that's why you're on a dedicated
circuit all right the moment of truth pull this out and camerawoman can see we
still have full access to that outlet down there
all right before I attach these base cabinets I might want to wire that
outlet because I can reach it much better if I put a stool right at the
wall rather than some kind of horrible ballerina move cabinet they'll give you
some footage make me content real quick before I get up here in the
water this outlet I want take the time to tell you guys the reason I'm not
showing you how to do this I have a video where I took a lot of time and
explained it's best if I can explain how to wire an outlet over on my workshop
channel it'll be a link to that below go check it out if you're interested
there we go that one's all done we're not putting an outlet cover plate on
here because one it's pretty unlikely our fingers are going to be in this box
but two that allow us to paint and finish this wall easier without the
plate cover on
you notice now I'm using different screws I didn't really like how those
shorter ones I felt like they just barely bit into the wall stud so I'm
using 3-inch long ones they're not ideal they're not paying hit these are I think
they're called bugle head but I'm being careful not to push them all through the
wall of the cabinet and big enough especially considering what this house
is put together with before we touched it make sure I got an even gap right
here
we have taken some time we cut all the holes in the cabinets we need for the
dishwasher one on this side is for the power and a plug up one on this side a
little bit larger for the supply and drain hoses to route through into the
sink base cabinet we're not going to put the dishwasher in place tonight because
it's loaded and ready to go and what we've been doing during this renovation
is we take the drain hose we'll stick it down in the drain pipe at the floor plug
it in the wall and kind of run it out in the open it's kind of dirty but it works
it's really nice to have the dishwasher where it's getting close to being dark
what we're going to do now is go ahead and go outside and bring in our
brand-new countertops let you guys see them then we'll sit them here just for
now
I think what you guys think probably thinking that's a little bit short buddy
well explain that here so like he said the countertop is actually a little
short we actually needed a 12-foot countertop and that's only a special
order which takes two to three weeks to get in you didn't really want to wait
that long so we figured that we would get an extra piece and just add it
together for us it's okay to have the same and not have to wait another two to
three weeks or pay the extra fee for having a special order item five o'clock
somewhere quint um well guys this is a pretty good
stopping point as we're gonna get tonight
he's got the counters in it's getting dark perfect time to clean up and and
find something for dinner I appreciate you guys watching and joining us on this
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