This was quite the saga.
First weekend.
- I bought a two by four when I should have bought a one inch thick piece of wood instead. That ate up a weekend. I even bought a saw which I did end up using on the correctly sized piece of wood.
Second weekend.
- I didn't realize I need to pre-drill the wood screws at first so I tried to do that, well our power drill wasn't up to the task.
- I bought a new power drill, the right bits I need to pre-drill, then I tried to use the bit from the old drill and it wasn't right it was stripping the screws.
- I bought the right one, my husband helped by pre-drilling the wood and then put in one filler piece crookedly. The power drill ran out of juice, the battery went on the charger and well that was that.
Third weekend:
- I put the second piece of filler wood in there, straight. Then I tried to make the marks for where the support screws should go. I couldn't hold up the hood by myself and mark it even thought it doesn't weight more than 5 pounds I just have circulation issues. I didn't want to deal with pre-drilling again since I'd have to do it make the cabinet wood and the filler wood flush again. So I bought some self-tapping screws and some jack stands.
- My husband woke up and tried to get the screws in the right place. When that didn't work out I asked him to do the electrical part. Big surprise we weren't counting on for some reason the hood didn't come with the cord. So we ordered the cord online and another weekend was shot.
Fourth week into weekend:
- The cord came in and my husband got it all hooked up.
- We tried to get the screws all set again but the way the wood is under the cabinet made the whole thing a pain. Also the cord made it so we couldn't put the hood flush under the cabinet so we needed to make another hole.
- This weekend I bought the wood drilling bit for so we could make a new hole in the cabinet. My husband got some washers to put over the keyholes in the hood and around the self tapping screws so the damned hood could go in despite the issues with the way the everything was set up under there. Finally we are done and everything is secure.
I'll get a better pic later. I was just so excited to be able to vent the smoke as we had to run the self-clean on the oven since it was so dirty from the people who lived here before but now we're not smoking out the house.