hey everybody my name is Sam and welcome back to Green acre homestead where we
are elbow deep halfway into a cabinet of a mobile home renovation on a budget
Angela's just finishing disconnecting our little redneck rigging operation of
our dishwasher being connected to run while we don't have a sink and it's not
plumbed up we are going to tackle attaching these countertops today we got
these at the store yesterday slap them in here giggled all night and today it's
time to make them official time to tie the knot with the countertops don't get
serious it's also the day where we have to cut these countertops yeah to be
honest we're pretty nervous about that but I've watched a lot of YouTube have
actually cut countertops in the past and should go okay so cross your fingers for
us let's see if we can't make this happen the first thing to do is to pull
this countertop back off the wall and get some measurements I need to cut some
blocking or support boards right here at this joint and we'll talk about that
more later underneath where the dishwasher is and in the corner where
the miter is basically supporting the countertop everywhere that a cabinet or
something else is not right below it supporting it 2816 24:34 two-foot
I don't know if this is what you normally do with cabinets because the
first time but I noticed when we put the countertop against the wall the bottom
of the countertop wasn't sitting on this small little lip the cabinets so this
surely cannot hurt it doesn't obstruct with the drawers
the only question we have which is further down the line as a fiddle
obstructive the faucet but we will address that I would rather this thing
be plenty beef and up and not have any sagging problems there's any question
about these cabinets coming off the wall they are not going anywhere now that's
for sure all right they've got more of a pocket thank you for jumping in there
though there's no room to get that one now I'm here
yeah that's in the wall stuff all right before we go boxing ourselves out of
this corner by building a frame to support this kind of floating space of
the corner of the counter we're going to go ahead and install the wall cabinet in
the corner right here this is good that angela reminded me a few minutes ago
because otherwise i would have forgotten until it would have been really really
difficult to do so I'm gonna stick on the chocolate over here and we will hang
a cabinet again for the second time five minutes yeah it's done
it's good so we're going to keep rocking and rolling in cabinet Ville and we're
going ahead and putting these wok helmets back on the wall well we're
gonna do now is mark a line on the wall right where the bottom of the cabinet's
will be and so it's the correct height all the way across the kitchen
dishwasher not 24 inches that's it that's a perfect fit
Wow who did that we did that
well we got one leg out there things are really starting to take shape in here
we're making really good progress and good time this is great I totally just
jinx myself here's a look at the frame and we're doing in the corner we
basically built a box and a tattoo our four right here vertically to give us a
nailer for probably a sheet of paneling just to go along in line with the
cabinets and close this area off it's going to be a dead corner but is what it
is Angela's outside cutting the last board
for this here we're gonna add a vertical support in the middle and should be good
to go ahead and start putting the other miter here measuring and cutting that
yeah it's a little tab on this
that looks great alright let's see how it fits
awesome the miter bolt kit we got pull that together perfect so to put the
miters together for these countertops there's a little hardware kit you're
gonna want to buy it comes with some wood glue and more importantly some of
these bolts and they're pretty much just little bolts with metal flanges to help
grab and clamp the mitre together alright I'm going to use the included
glue with the kit and put a nice big bead on this joint here okay big good
grief this is really watery my first time
working with glue we ready with the modders bolts things
come on in tomorrow you're gonna be able to seize me all right only sees me
usually my gosh hurry wash the pressure pushed you can do some
too then
that's why you do a board of mr. difference this one had a little dent I
guess from the store but we'll be able to specular Danny yeah whoever here
we're gonna have this but joint of the countertops I cut a piece of half-inch
plywood and I'm going to glue it underneath the countertop to let it be
the transition piece between the two countertops hold them in place and make
everything nice and we'll go ahead and glue half of this on and clamp it and
then a little bit later I'll come back and glue the other half and it'll be
good
while waiting for that plywood piece to dry Angela's gone outside and she
started to clean up the sink that we got we got a used sink off of Lee Facebook
marketplace for a heck of a deal so let's go see however progress is going
so the sink had a lot of old silicone around the edge so I was able to use our
thousand-and-one tool and scrape it all around the edge to clean it up to
install it next came time to take out the old faucet which is what has me kind
of stumped I can't find any way to get it off so now it's Sam's turn
my next about mentioned yet how much I love this tool alright so he put the
sink upside down on the top of the counter and put tape down and then
traced around it and then measured in 3/4 to one inch around and they give
this is our hole to cut with a jigsaw this is the big cross your fingers
moment hopefully it works and we cut it right the first time so here's how I'm
gonna do a plunge cut with the jigsaw I'm going to turn it on and then slowly
tilt it let the blade cut in and then I'll move it this way until it finally
pops through then I can take it and go either which way I kind of like this
method better than starting with a pilot hole with a drill because I feel like
this gives me more control do whatever works for you though
I'm purposely not cutting all the way to the corners because I want the
countertop to still support itself until I've got most of all the cuts done and
then I'll be able to finish cut the corners and get a more controlled cut at
the end I'm also being careful to make this as clean of an inside cut as
possible like the waste piece in case in the future maybe we'll build some kind
of a rolling cart or something and I'll have a perfect countertop that matches
to put on top of that look at that I cut a hole in a brand new countertop I hope
it's right awesome this looks good fits really well and I don't have to do any
extra trimming or anything so yeah time to pull it back out take the tape off
sit it back in place and start doing some plumbing
all right so here's what we're going to do that's going to be different we are
not going to silicone the sink down right now because the countertop is not
attached right now we got to do a few more things but what we're going to do
is get this sink hooked up so Angela can start using it first it's easy enough to
disconnect the seat and drains and get the stuff finished in a little bit but
for now for tonight we're going to hook it up so she can at least have water and
it working you sink in her kitchen together alright so here we have our old
drain pipes and everything these are still in good shape so we're reusing
them I'm gonna put some ABS glue on here and glue it back into its original spot
here we go you want to see what intelligence and thinking ahead is this
Angela oh that is intelligence and thinking ahead it's a lot easier to
install a faucet when the sinks outside of the cabinet on the floor where you
can get to it it's one of the reasons I married her let's go to the basement you
don't need to do that Barton no I'm good what'd you guys think what do you think
I love it so this was the goal for today the goal was to get in the sink at least
working the countertop is not attached I still have to glue the last section of
countertop together cut the other one attach the sink it's still a lot of work
to be done but I can use my sink yes she can use her sink so if the sink
looks a little used is because it is it's almost as old as we are it is we
wanted a white sink and the ones that you can find out the big-box stores are
about $300 that is way over budget for us yeah so we went to Facebook
marketplace and found this one for $30 that's oh that's more our price yeah
definitely it doesn't look perfect but it's what you wanted mm-hmm and it is so
much deeper than the original sink that came in this mobile home Wow yeah
I can almost get in there and take a bath maybe the boys so yes it is used
yes it does have scratches and stuff but it's what we wanted it fit our price
range and we're not trying to win awards for our kitchen it's broken
it's so I love it another reason we haven't
just pinned the countertop down is because that will make it really easy
cum painting time to slide it back from the wall be really messy and then slide
it back to the wall then we'll attach it alrighty well that's gonna be it for
this one hope you guys enjoyed it leave us
comments down below tell her how awesome this heat looks you know tell me what I
forgot to do and we'll see you guys next time see ya