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Installing kitchen over garage with flexicore ceiling

3 years ago

Hi,

My garage has a flexicore ceiling. My dining room is currently situated over that garage. I would like to move my kitchen to where my dining room is so that I have an "open room" concept with my living room. I have been told that, because of the flexicore garage ceiling, moving the mechanicals (plumbing pipes, wiring, etc) to move my kitchen over my garage is something of a big deal and will be more expensive and may not be able to be done.

Has anyone here had any experience with this?

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Creative Abodes
3 years ago
Yeah it will be expensive, it is a concrete floor so the structure could be compromised if anything went through it. Wouldn’t touch it
Monique
3 years ago
Forget it. You’d be rebuilding more than half the house to do that.
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Original Author
3 years ago
Thank you all for the helpful responses. My current kitchen (roughly 40 years old) has to be gutted anyway (cabinets are falling apart, peel n stick flooring has peeled off, down to 2 working burners on the range, sink is warped). So I don't know if the fact that I will be remodeling the current kitchen anyway alters your opinion.

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