But i can imagine Bob taking a chainsaw to his own floor for a cabinet...[emphasis added]
Wait, they used a fracking chainsaw to cut the hole in the floor?!?
Probably used a circle saw. But Keith can
imagine Bob using a chainsaw if he was drunk.
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Did the cabinets work with the insane cutting?
Because in the real world the height of the room usually isn't perfectly uniform. What would fit in one place might not fit in another. You always leave a bit of space to be covered by molding because of this. Despite working with construction people for ages I forgot that when I installed a light above a window. It's visibly out of alignment with the window--the light is level, the window is not.
Let's say the ceiling is eight foot, and the cabinet is somewhere around seven foot ten. That leaves plenty of room to shift the cabinet around after standing it up, but doesn't leave enough room to stand it up.
I'm hoping for a final punchline, where they realize that instead of cutting a hole in the ceiling, they could have just popped one of the panels in the drop ceiling.
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Before anyone asks, no, we have no reason to believe that Bob has a drop ceiling.
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And how did they get it in the front door? Or down the stairs to the basement? Most houses' basements have a lower ceiling height than the main floor. Sorry, this isn't a real story.
Think of something like a grandfather's clock. Only wider. As much as four foot wide.
Seven foot ten tall, one foot deep, two or four foot wide. Carried on its side, that fits easily thru the door.
It didn't go to the basement. It went to the kitchen. It was too tall and deep to stand up in the kitchen, so--instead of raising the kitchen ceiling, they lowered the floor.
If you remove 3/4 in of flooring material, that might make all the difference. If that doesn't suffice, you can dip the rear/bottom edge of the cabinet into the space between joists during rotation. That ought to do it.
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Are you suggesting they got them into the kitchen, but found they couldn't stand them up, so then decided to take them out of the kitchen, downstairs, where they couldn't stand them up either, then cut a hole in the floor, bigger than the minimum because then they'd have to because they need extra clearance to stand them up, only to get the cabinets back where they were before, only stood up?
That's a wonderful image, but I don't think anyone's suggesting that.
I'm sorry, can't believe it. No one is that stupid.
I don't believe your version either.
But,
no one is that stupid? I've known people who had some stunningly stupid moments.
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Apropos of nothing, an anecdote:
My new house had storm windows but no screens. So, come spring, we ordered a set of screens from local craftsmen. They came out and measured, and went away to build the screens.
When they delivered, one of the screens was a rhombus rather than a rectangle. It didn't fit. The guys apologized and said they'd build another one.
I said, "Wait a moment." I grabbed the top of the screen and pulled so that it became a rectangle. Now it fit perfectly.
The craftsmen grinned up at me, and one of them said, "That's why you're the lawyer."
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Note: I'm not a lawyer, nor am I representing myself to be a lawyer. I'm retired. I used to tell people I was a recovering attorney, but, now that I let my license lapse, I am fully recovered.
