Teamwork.

Jeremy came home Saturday night and Sunday was all day DIY install of our new induction stove and downdraft. This took at least 5 hours on Sunday working together. We each had goals. Jeremy’s goal: install downdraft and induction stove. My goal: work together and I will not once get annoyed at Jeremy. Well….I met my goal (happily) and Jeremy did not meet his.

It took us five hours to install this downdraft and I want to say that we did a beautiful job, much better than the initial new build install (this house may look good, but it’s not terribly built well). We made all the electrical work neat, we did some cabinetry adjustments to not kludge the install and have it more stable and sturdy than originally installed. We neatly taped all the vent connection – beautiful. This did take us a long time, talking, lifting the vent into and out of the space to do test runs, etc. But in the end, gorgeous. And I did not get annoyed one bit. But as we were finishing installing it, Jeremy’s like – the stove is just going to drop in, it’s going to take 5 minutes. I said, shhhhhhhh…don’t anger the kitchen gods. And we unpacked the stove, tried to drop it in and the granite space is 1/2″ too small. Argh… so I need to find someone to cut the hole slightly bigger. Hmmm, and the lip is slim, so it might break if they try to cut it. We’ll see.

I told Jeremy that if we break the countertop trying to make the hole bigger and need to replace it and uninstall the downdraft, I might just cry. Anyways, it was a triumph for us as a team – it was a good satisfying day. Teamwork makes the dreamwork.