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The new kitchen

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I know not to expect houses to be square ... but this house is a long way from being square. Spent the entire day lining up the parts for my new new inbuilt cupboard, made with engineering exactitude, so that it fits into a corner. The floor isn't even level ffs, with an 8mm drop over 400mm.

Mrs chrismpw doesn't work Fridays, so she's on undercoating duty. Fast she ain't.
 

First new cupboard in place in the new (formerly dining) area. Timber originally cut to fit the current kitchen, floor to ceiling is now 75mm short of the ceiling, but that doesn't bother me. It was one if the female's dreams to have a spider free kitchen.

What bothers me is that I've just seen the pullout unit she's ordered to fit inside it. Its 2150mm high. The cupboard has a 2060mm internal height.

I'm going to have to cut and weld it. Another chuffing job for the list.
 

It might be time to consider manslaughter, your updates on this thread would make a solid defence to a half decent barrister, you'd be looking at 5 - 7 years. Rent the house out (lock and secure the workshop obviously !!), this action couldn't of come at a better time with the energy crisis looming, you'll save thousands being banged up !! I'm guessing first offence so you'll be shipped off to a Cushy Cat D and you'll have plenty of time to draw up multiple plans for future workshop projects on release !!!
 
One of the (many, many, many) problems with moving the kitchen (at the last minute) into the dining area is that the newly fitted radiator ... the 8mm and 5/16" one with the problematic elbow, would have to be removed. In its place would go the plinth heater we bought to go under the unit I was making in the old kitchen before we decided to redesign the entire ruddy house.

Trouble is the plinth heater is no longer going under my unit, its going under one the missus bought ... so it doesn't fit. Useless. We'll have to do without a radiator here.

What to do with the troublesome pipes? I need the shiny new radiator stop valves from the end. No way can I remove the unions I struggled to put on and cap them off. The pipe us too mangled and I'm not convince the union ever sealed properly.

Knowing I only had one shot and that the heating system was live and I didn't want to drain it, I practiced some ideas with a bunch of tools to crimp the pipe. Wire terminal crimp too - not strong enough. Small vice - not strong enough to seal. Hydraulic crimp tool with a specially made flat anvil- not convincing and a bit big to fit in where I needed. Mole grip ... surprisingly effective.

With nobody at home to help if it went wrong , I unlocked the front door and put my phone within reach with my 85 year old neighbour on speed dial. Not enough material left to use a pipe cutter, I positioned my mole grip, whipped the union off using an oscillating multitool and quickly squeezed the moles ince the end was free.... it worked ... save for a needle thin stream of high pressure water that could have gone anywhere but instead chose my eye.

Then I reached for the fall back option .... and hammered blue blazes out of the pipe end til the water stopped, then folded over the end and soldered it shut. Result.
 
chrismpw said:
One of the (many, many, many) problems with moving the kitchen (at the last minute) into the dining area is that the newly fitted radiator ... the 8mm and 5/16" one with the problematic elbow, would have to be removed. In its place would go the plinth heater we bought to go under the unit I was making in the old kitchen before we decided to redesign the entire ruddy house.

Trouble is the plinth heater is no longer going under my unit, its going under one the missus bought ... so it doesn't fit. Useless. We'll have to do without a radiator here.

What to do with the troublesome pipes? I need the shiny new radiator stop valves from the end. No way can I remove the unions I struggled to put on and cap them off. The pipe us too mangled and I'm not convince the union ever sealed properly.

Knowing I only had one shot and that the heating system was live and I didn't want to drain it, I practiced some ideas with a bunch of tools to crimp the pipe. Wire terminal crimp too - not strong enough. Small vice - not strong enough to seal. Hydraulic crimp tool with a specially made flat anvil- not convincing and a bit big to fit in where I needed. Mole grip ... surprisingly effective.

With nobody at home to help if it went wrong , I unlocked the front door and put my phone within reach with my 85 year old neighbour on speed dial. Not enough material left to use a pipe cutter, I positioned my mole grip, whipped the union off using an oscillating multitool and quickly squeezed the moles ince the end was free.... it worked ... save for a needle thin stream of high pressure water that could have gone anywhere but instead chose my eye.

Then I reached for the fall back option .... and hammered blue blazes out of the pipe end til the water stopped, then folded over the end and soldered it shut. Result.
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Have you cut any fingers off yet?
 
bluejohn66 said:
It might be time to consider manslaughter, your updates on this thread would make a solid defence to a half decent barrister, you'd be looking at 5 - 7 years. Rent the house out (lock and secure the workshop obviously !!), this action couldn't of come at a better time with the energy crisis looming, you'll save thousands being banged up !! I'm guessing first offence so you'll be shipped off to a Cushy Cat D and you'll have plenty of time to draw up multiple plans for future workshop projects on release !!!
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Can make the coffin as well... (solid oak flooring off cuts, winner winner)
 

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