Kitchen Remodel Week 1

We, well the contractor, started the kitchen remodel this week. It worked out well that he would arrive just as everyone had left the house for Vacation Bible School or work. He had the place to himself for 5 hours a day and could make as much noise and dust as he wanted. I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of work he got done each day.

Starting point: Day 0
I took some pictures the night before we started so that we could remember what it used to look like at the last moment before we started the project.

I tried to get a view that can see all of the changes that will happen. Most of what you see will be gone by the end of the week.

Day 1 (prep the floor)
Since I had installed Engineered Hardwood Flooring less than 5 years ago the contractor didn't want to damage it so he brought in some heavy paper and covered that with plastic. Since the island in the middle of the room is actually sitting on top of the floor, he removed it so that he could have the most room to work and also get the floor covered as well as possible.

Day 2 (remove the cabinets)
On Day 1 he told me that he wasn't going to do "too much" well to my surprise he had completely removed all of the cabinets while we were away.

Day 3 (removing the popcorn ceiling)
When we were talking about painting the ceiling the contractor strongly suggested that we remove the popcorn ceiling that we have. Fortunately he knew what he was doing and was able to remove the ceiling material in one day. I don't have any pictures of the freshly scraped ceiling.

Day 4 (opening up the walls)
I guess I never really thought about the fact that we would be "going down to the studs" but we did.

Day 5 & 7 (electrical)
The contractor brought in a sub contractor to do the electrical work. He started on Friday and finished up on Sunday. We needed to have the house to ourselves on Saturday to recover from a long week of VBS and me working late on my work project. Most of the wiring is in place so that all that's needed now is placing the new circuit breaker panel and getting the sheetrock back in place.

What's on the plate for this week? We've been told to determine where any of our network cabling needs to be run so that work can be completed and pick out paint colors so that can start at the end of this week, or beginning of next week.