Mark Shaw wrote:

> A crew is going to come and demolish my early-70s era kitchen
> on the 5th, preparatory to rebuilding it from floor to ceiling.
> I anticipate being completely without kitchen facilities for
> the entire month of July, and probably well into August.
>
> What do others who've gone through this kind of thing have to
> offer in the way of survival tips?
>
> I have a good gas grill and a propane cooker, so any prepar-
> ation not requiring an oven is probably not an issue. I'm
> thinking more in terms of storage and cleanup.
>

A month to redo a kitchen? Mine was a matter of days. The cupboards had
been ordered ahead of time and I was given an installation date. I had to
rip out the old cupboards and counters. That took a few hours. When I got
home from work the next day the now cupboards and counter were in place. I
had to cut a whole for the sink and hook that up.... another hour and a
half. The kitchen was then usable but I had to paint and paper. A few
years later we did the floors, ripping up the old tiles and had a
contractor lay a cement lathe in preparation for ceramic tiles. That
involved one day of work on the lathe, let it sit for a day and then the
tile was laid on the third day. A professional crew should be able to do a
kitchen within a week.