On March 18th, Michael removed the kitchen cabinets and what was left of the floor. It only took about six hours to tear out all of the linoleum. I want to point out the nice raised ledge around our kitchen floor, also known as the cause of all of our kitchen damage. The house is not settling that much. The ledge was completely level, and the floor was completely level, just on different levels. For the record, if you leave a 1/2-inch difference between the footings and the kitchen floor it will cause problems with how the cabinets set over time and the wear of the linoleum, especially if you don't raise the entire cabinet to the level of the ledge it is sitting on.
After everything was removed, Michael took a grinder to the ledge and brought it down to the level of the rest of the floor. It took a total of four hours. Ugh! But we are so glad it was that easy and inexpensive to fix that part of the floor. A few grinder wheel versus cement board or actual cement to raise all of the floor to the level of the edge saved us several hundred of dollars.
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