Getting Electric Over To The Kitchen Island

Hello everyone.  I hope you are having a good week.

Mike and I are in wait mode so we have been cleaning up and doing yard work.  Our flooring is supposed to be in by Saturday and we are still waiting on our cabinet ship date for the kitchen.

In the meantime we had to get electric to the spot for the kitchen island.  This is a dusty dusty job…so full armor for this, lol.

Mike sets up the vacuum for me.  I will follow behind while he uses the blade on the concrete floor:

He cuts two lines about 3 inches deep and 3 inches wide:

Now it's time to chisel out the middle.  There has to be enough room to fit a pipe and electric in the ground.  Niki looks thrilled, lol.

Mike using the hand chisel and hammer…I am the clean up crew:)

Once the hole is cut out and cleaned it's time to fit the pipe in.  Mike checks the size for the angled ends:

After the ends are glued I help him push the electric wire through:

Once the pipe is in the ground we fill the hole with hydraulic cement:

Now it has to cure.  We are now set up for electric to the island.:)

On a good note….that is the last of the messy jobs for what we want to finish now.  We are getting very close to the final clean up and dress up.  Yay…no more dust.

I know it was short but you are all catching up to us.  Hopefully we can get some flooring down this weekend and I can show you the color we painted:)

I need some ideas:)  You know we have that big built in so what do we put in it?  Mike and I don't like clutter so we are thinking one or two things per shelf.  I'm sure we will also do something with pictures.  I don't have that many hardcover books and I really don't want to put paperbacks up there.  So I sill most likely only have one shelf for books.

Where do you buy things like that?


We also have a lot of pinecones here. Maybe I can do something fun with those and not too tacky

Have a great weekend and I will write again on Monday.

Lisa:)