I went and visited Carpet Exchange yesterday in Fort Collins.  We just weren’t getting anywhere on the phone, other than me being pissed off at them.  I wouldn’t say I’m un-pissed off… but at least I have a install date, and a new tile that they verified by phone was actually available.

The original tile had some black in it, the new tile does not…  I’m honestly not that partial to the black specks so I’m fine.  Why they didn’t just let me know I needed to pick out a new tile I have no idea.  Hopefully they call me again on Monday and leave another message.

My appliances all arrived Friday afternoon.  Today I installed the over-range microwave.  I always kill one masonry bit when I do that 🙂  Drilling through the ceramic tile back splash to get to the stud for the bracket is such a pain.  This is the 2nd one I’ve done.  I mounted it probably 1/8″ too low, but it went in much easier than the last one.  I think I like that 1/8″ lowness.   No one else will notice but me.  Two lag bolts into studs, the directions only say to put one into a stud.  Then there’s the 2 toggle bolts holding the top of the bracket tight.  Once that is in, you slip the microwave onto the mounting bracket and tilt it into place and pull the power cord up.   There’s three bolts that hold the top from flipping back out… installing over the rang microwaves isn’t too bad.  It’s more of a pain to line up the templates, and then drill through whatever material you have to go through.

done and done.  This will all look very nice once the tile and carpet is in place.

I even slide the new rang over underneath the microwave just to get a look at it.  I like it, I’m glad I ordered new appliances.  I wonder if anyone expects me to have some sort of open house to trash my new carpet!