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The new kitchen

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chrismpw said:
I've given up waiting for the household female to do the undercoating so today I did a bit myself (in a fraction of the time I might add).

Also have organised 5 mates (yes, believe it or not I have a few) to come at 7pm tonight to help lift a granite workspace from the old kitchen. Given the bulk density of granite is around 2.7 tonnes per cubic metre I've calculated that the slab is around 150kg. I've also managed to find a buyer if we don’t break it.

For homework you can now calculate the area of the slab, given its thickness of 25mm.
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error numero uno, for the thousandth time?
 

chrismpw said:
The task of moving the granite worktop did not go according to plan. Of the 5 mates one messaged with a hour to go saying he had to rush to he his dad who was dying. Poor sod isn't going through a good time with a massive mortgage, subsidence and a wife who's run off with some bloke leaving my mate with two kids. We were understandably down to 4.

Then after the prescribed time one had forgotten- "oops be there in 15 minutes" and another had miscommunicated- after saying yes to coming at 7 he later messaged to say it was a bit late for him if we could change it. I told him we couldn't really as everyone had agreed to 7pm. What the blurt should have said was he couldn't make 7, not that it was a bit late ... so at 7.30 I discovered we only had 3 for the lift.

I knocked on a neighbour's door. His wife told me that Norman was in bed... he gets up at 4. My other neighbour is 85 with a heart condition and another is 75 like a rake. Fortunately one if the fellas who came around new someone in a nearby street who was able to help.

This was not a 150kg slab. It seemed way more. I havecalwaya suspected it was basalt, despite its name in shops. The bulk density of basalt of over 3 tonnes per cubic metre, meaning this slab weighs in at 30kg more at least. We tilted the slab and got it vertical so it wouldn't snap and inched our way tobthe front door where I had some 4x2 waiting to put it on. What didn't help was having 3 mates lift one end and me lift the other.

We nearly made it before one of the 3 started to panic... then I remembered his gammy hand. Meanwhile the two farthest out of the door had trod into the oil drip tray that sits under my 56 year old daimler and started to lose traction. We had to put the slab down pdq.

From there it was all about stone henge - sliding and twisting the slab around over blocks of 4x2 until it finally rested against a wall.

I'm 'kin broken. But its off... the one biggest obstacle to me finishing dismantling the old kitchen.

Theres a female thats interested in buying the worktops. She optimistically told me that at the end of October her 3 sons will be back from college/uni or whatever and will help lift it into a van. I hope they play rugby.
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Set the boss on them, they'll double it round on foot!
 
chrismpw said:
The task of moving the granite worktop did not go according to plan. Of the 5 mates one messaged with a hour to go saying he had to rush to he his dad who was dying. Poor sod isn't going through a good time with a massive mortgage, subsidence and a wife who's run off with some bloke leaving my mate with two kids. We were understandably down to 4.

Then after the prescribed time one had forgotten- "oops be there in 15 minutes" and another had miscommunicated- after saying yes to coming at 7 he later messaged to say it was a bit late for him if we could change it. I told him we couldn't really as everyone had agreed to 7pm. What the blurt should have said was he couldn't make 7, not that it was a bit late ... so at 7.30 I discovered we only had 3 for the lift.

I knocked on a neighbour's door. His wife told me that Norman was in bed... he gets up at 4. My other neighbour is 85 with a heart condition and another is 75 like a rake. Fortunately one if the fellas who came around new someone in a nearby street who was able to help.

This was not a 150kg slab. It seemed way more. I havecalwaya suspected it was basalt, despite its name in shops. The bulk density of basalt of over 3 tonnes per cubic metre, meaning this slab weighs in at 30kg more at least. We tilted the slab and got it vertical so it wouldn't snap and inched our way tobthe front door where I had some 4x2 waiting to put it on. What didn't help was having 3 mates lift one end and me lift the other.

We nearly made it before one of the 3 started to panic... then I remembered his gammy hand. Meanwhile the two farthest out of the door had trod into the oil drip tray that sits under my 56 year old daimler and started to lose traction. We had to put the slab down pdq.

From there it was all about stone henge - sliding and twisting the slab around over blocks of 4x2 until it finally rested against a wall.

I'm 'kin broken. But its off... the one biggest obstacle to me finishing dismantling the old kitchen.

Theres a female thats interested in buying the worktops. She optimistically told me that at the end of October her 3 sons will be back from college/uni or whatever and will help lift it into a van. I hope they play rugby.
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I know it's wasn't funny at the time but I had a little chuckle at the guy treading in the drip tray.

Well done on not cracking the slab/wrecking a foot.
 
BNJ1878 said:
I know it's wasn't funny at the time but I had a little chuckle at the guy treading in the drip tray.

Well done on not cracking the slab/wrecking a foot.
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In the safety briefing beforehand I'd told them if they heard a crack they were to let go jump out of the way to remove feet from the danger area. I illustrated and embarrasingly gave a decent rendition of a camp prance to my right complete with jazz hands! lol
 

So the woman who came around last week wanting the granite, and who talked for an hour about her kitchen and plans, has now decided it won't work because the person who she hired to talk about fitting the granite says its too heavy as is and her cabinets will need modifying to carry the weight leaving my piece of hernia causing granite not big enough. Undoubtedly the granite fitter who came up with this can sell her a slab at 10 times the cost.

On the plus side I need a big block of stone for a fire place and I suspect that to buy a piece fir this would cost way more than what we'd get fir the granite. I could cut a couple if fire places from our piece. What chances though that the household female will want a piece of slate so she can ruin it by staining it like she did in the "former-lounge-now-the-dining-part-of-the-kitchen-diner.'

I think that by now we all know what she won't want.
 
I have a buyer though for the existing kitchen cabinets. As is obvious, what obviously cost many thousands of pounds when fitted 18 years ago as top quality vastly overpriced British furniture, they're falling apart as I remove them as the cheap chappy plastic coated chipboard and dowels come free.

I'm spending as much time rebuilding and repaing them as I am fitting the new kitchen ffs. Oh plus the household female has argued that since she paid for the new units she ordered that she should get the money from the sale, even though her view was to take it all to the tip.

Tempted to buy another boat after this and leave her to it.
 

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