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The new kitchen

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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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See GOT this is the kind of good advice people coming to this site crave.
 
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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Life changing read, that. Cheers.
 
I removed a new door I fitted just two months ago as it is no longer needed. The reason its no longer needed is that there's no longer a wall for it to go through. The door is heavy and took me a good day to make it fit the not at all square doorway. The stud wall is now a pile of plasterboard on the drive .... some if it is in my lungs and the rest a fine layer of abrasive dust covering the new floor I ovingly hard waxed and polished in June. I'm past caring.

The eye level oven is to be fitted into alcove of the fireplace in the not quite a lounge anymore. To make a unit for this I am using the oak faced ply I had cut, screwed and glued into a being a unit in the kitchen a few weeks ago before that kitchen became a lounge. Obviously nothing now is the right length and when I tap off the glued shelf supports it tears the veneer off. Very disheartening, but this will only be seen inside the cupboards. If anybody looks they won't be invited again.

The alcove is 92cm wide, allowing for a 60cm unit and a 30cm wide pull out drawer unit the wife desires. I cut and build and to make it fit have to remove some architrave which I can shave down later and refit. The unit is made and glued and screwed together. To build it in I had to cut away part of the floor I laid a month or two previously.

A passing comment while visiting our timber supplier if last resort, Wickes, causes ructions. The oven is, apparently, to be inserted flush. The wife wanted a 60cm unit. Unit dimensions are measured from the outside edges, we now have a 60cm unit. The outer dimension of the oven is 60cm. To accommodate this the 30cm unit has to become a 26cm unit.

So half a terse hour later I'm home taking apart a unit made yesterday that I had made out of a unit that was made a couple of weeks ago.
 
chrismpw said:
I removed a new door I fitted just two months ago as it is no longer needed. The reason its no longer needed is that there's no longer a wall for it to go through. The door is heavy and took me a good day to make it fit the not at all square doorway. The stud wall is now a pile of plasterboard on the drive .... some if it is in my lungs and the rest a fine layer of abrasive dust covering the new floor I ovingly hard waxed and polished in June. I'm past caring.

The eye level oven is to be fitted into alcove of the fireplace in the not quite a lounge anymore. To make a unit for this I am using the oak faced ply I had cut, screwed and glued into a being a unit in the kitchen a few weeks ago before that kitchen became a lounge. Obviously nothing now is the right length and when I tap off the glued shelf supports it tears the veneer off. Very disheartening, but this will only be seen inside the cupboards. If anybody looks they won't be invited again.

The alcove is 92cm wide, allowing for a 60cm unit and a 30cm wide pull out drawer unit the wife desires. I cut and build and to make it fit have to remove some architrave which I can shave down later and refit. The unit is made and glued and screwed together. To build it in I had to cut away part of the floor I laid a month or two previously.

A passing comment while visiting our timber supplier if last resort, Wickes, causes ructions. The oven is, apparently, to be inserted flush. The wife wanted a 60cm unit. Unit dimensions are measured from the outside edges, we now have a 60cm unit. The outer dimension of the oven is 60cm. To accommodate this the 30cm unit has to become a 26cm unit.

So half a terse hour later I'm home taking apart a unit made yesterday that I had made out of a unit that was made a couple of weeks ago.
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Divorce is less stressful..just saying.
 

chrismpw said:
I removed a new door I fitted just two months ago as it is no longer needed. The reason its no longer needed is that there's no longer a wall for it to go through. The door is heavy and took me a good day to make it fit the not at all square doorway. The stud wall is now a pile of plasterboard on the drive .... some if it is in my lungs and the rest a fine layer of abrasive dust covering the new floor I ovingly hard waxed and polished in June. I'm past caring.

The eye level oven is to be fitted into alcove of the fireplace in the not quite a lounge anymore. To make a unit for this I am using the oak faced ply I had cut, screwed and glued into a being a unit in the kitchen a few weeks ago before that kitchen became a lounge. Obviously nothing now is the right length and when I tap off the glued shelf supports it tears the veneer off. Very disheartening, but this will only be seen inside the cupboards. If anybody looks they won't be invited again.

The alcove is 92cm wide, allowing for a 60cm unit and a 30cm wide pull out drawer unit the wife desires. I cut and build and to make it fit have to remove some architrave which I can shave down later and refit. The unit is made and glued and screwed together. To build it in I had to cut away part of the floor I laid a month or two previously.

A passing comment while visiting our timber supplier if last resort, Wickes, causes ructions. The oven is, apparently, to be inserted flush. The wife wanted a 60cm unit. Unit dimensions are measured from the outside edges, we now have a 60cm unit. The outer dimension of the oven is 60cm. To accommodate this the 30cm unit has to become a 26cm unit.

So half a terse hour later I'm home taking apart a unit made yesterday that I had made out of a unit that was made a couple of weeks ago.
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Tell her measure twice, cut once mate!

And I'm not on about her throat fella :cool:
 
Cabinet finished and 400 tonne oven installed. I have wired in the 32A spur to power up the new lounge oven .... a refurbished ebay bargain spotted by the missus. A sparky mate will come at a later date and test and formalise my wiring.

I switched on ... all good. Set clock, tried lower oven - all good. Tried upper oven - house currently in darkness! Refurbished my arse! :rant::rant:
 

chrismpw said:
I switched on ... all good. Set clock, tried lower oven - all good. Tried upper oven - house currently in darkness
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chrismpw said:
Cabinet finished and 400 tonne oven installed. I have wired in the 32A spur to power up the new lounge oven .... a refurbished ebay bargain spotted by the missus. A sparky mate will come at a later date and test and formalise my wiring.

I switched on ... all good. Set clock, tried lower oven - all good. Tried upper oven - house currently in darkness! Refurbished my arse! :rant::rant:
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