I love being a builder--both as a coder and as a homeowner w/modest DIY skills!
Removing the over-the-range microwave and cabinet in order to...
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I replaced our microwave a couple of years ago. That was a fun experience 🤣 I am still worried that it's going to fall off of the wall. It won't, but I think about it every time a heavy item is in the microwave.
I have a ceiling fan like that upstairs. I don't dare run it any harder than its slowest setting! The mounting screws were just a couple turns shy of how securely I'd prefer to have them fastened...
...replace it with a sexy new range hood. And a roofer coming to finally punch an exterior exhaust vent through the ceiling!
Cooking indoors with no external ventilation is so terrible. Gas range fumes, aerosolized grease settling on everything, first floor filled with smoke.
Vent, vent, vent!!!
Gross...
Had to cut this channel into the drywall to expose the studs. Will screw in a plywood board here to give me a firm surface to drill the range hood mounting screws into (it's way too heavy to even think about hanging it on just the drywall).
And, like ALL f'n homeowner DIY projects, there are more steps than I'd originally planned: because this is all raw and unfinished AND I wanted to do a backsplash anyway... looks like I'm putting up a backsplash before I can mount the range hood.
Adding like an extra week until I can cook again...
this is a really exciting project 🤓
I need to do this mod to level up my kitchen.
Figuring out how to properly mount it to those offset studs was the hardest part. Literally heading to the garage now to cut the plywood for that cutout.
Your photos are Ventilation Proof of Work!
