Cabinets, interior doors & frames, baseboards and trim, and painting

Surprisingly, we were able to save the granite countertops and tumble marble backsplash in unit 2.  The larger, "L" shaped top with sink weighed between 500 & 700 lbs.  and once we had gotten it off the cabinets during demo and leaned it up against a wall, it stayed there preventing any work from being done behind it until the cabinets came in and were installed to receive it.  It took 6 strong men to lift it high enough for the sink to clear the cabinet all the while trying not to let it smash into the tumble marble backsplash.  

We encountered the first snafu of the project with the corner cabinet on both sides and this caused a project delay of 3 weeks+. (We felt blessed that we had gotten this far without other snafus occurring.)  The manufacturer sent the wrong cabinet on one side and the cabinet designer for the order chose the wrong one on the other and I hadn't noticed that detail.  The two sides that attach to the walls were 33" and 36" but were reversed.  Even though the two kitchens are mirror images of each other, because the cabinets were of different designs and color, we couldn't simply swap them for each other.

Once the walls were painted and the cabinets were set and a temporary plywood countertop for unit one was made, we were to complete the electrical and plumbing and pass final inspections for electrical (March 21st) and plumbing (March 28th)

While I tried to minimize scope to build to the 50% FEMA estimate, I did have to do something about the bathroom storage. The house was built with 32" deep shelving behind louvered doors at the foot of each bathtub, The fact is if I put anything in that deep, I will forget what's there and the space becomes dead space.  I have built pull out storage for a pantry at our home and decided to do same here.  The guy that was helping me with drywall was a cabinet maker from the UK and I saw that he was better and faster than me, so we collaborated on a design, and then he built it with no more precise tools than an ordinary circular saw and a jig saw.

In order to try to avoid / minimize flood damage in the future, as you saw previously, we built flood proofing in as we were rebuilding.  The final step in this process was building flood panels for entry ways.  The 36" wide doorways were straight forward... we used 3/4" marine plywood for the panels.  In each case, I created 2' high PVC flange along the side of the door installed with SS screws and sealant where it was a permanent install or seals where it was a temporary install at the bottom of the doorway.   The 10' wide sliding glass doorways were a much bigger challenge as there were additional criteria including dealing with a force of up to 1500 lbs, making it relatively cheap and lightweight to move, and somewhat esthetically pleasing as the best place to store the panel when not in use was on the lanai, visible to all.  

On 27 April 2023 we passed the final inspection, paid our permitting fees and received the Certificate of Completion from the county officially completing the project.