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The new kitchen

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Prices have gone up. But have they doubled in 4 years? One thing I can't do well enough is plaster so I contacted the fella who did two rooms and a ceiling for us a few tears back. He wants a bit more than he charged us back then to skim 3 walls and a ceiling. He calculated this price while on holiday in Egypt... a place I've never afforded to go. I'll look around.

The kitchen isn't far off. Plumbing is finished, a gas man is coming Friday to fit a gas point for the hob. The wife us making glacial progress painting the cupboard doors. Last weekend she managed to undercoat one side of 4 doors. Her weekend starts Friday morning.

I've persuaded the female to go with oak work surfaces that i can fit myself and saves the hassle of making appointments with the stone fitters. I'm even looking to get quotes for chimney fitters to put a flue on the outside of what will become a lounge. In the past I've done it myself, but government regulations mean I now have to pay somebody else (who's paid the government for permission) to do this work thousands of pounds.

Yesterday though, was a cathartic day for me. I started laying the oak floor thats been hogging my workshop for space since March. With every plank I put down I get to see more of my precious milling machine. Oh baby.

I did half of the floor then remembered I was going to chip all the ex-kitchen tiles off and cut away the leak damaged ceiling plasterboard first. Ffs.
 
Today I'm pulling down a sq m of the ceiling where its been damaged by an old shower leak. I'm using the exposed space to thread in a cable for a new centre light rather than the downlighters we have in there. I'm also using the opportunity to thread in billions of hyperthermia shards of glass from the insulation thats stuffed there. I'll be scratching like a dog for the rest of the day.

I've recently discovered the joys of an sds drill (previously salvaged from a skip and repaired) in removing tiles and routing out plaster for electric cables. So much easier than manual in distributing a thick layer of dust on all the wife's undercoating.

Meanwhile, in a moment of transcendental clarity, I realised I may have achieved the next dan of diy-ness. While hammering at a scraper (why does coving adhesive have to be do tough? It could glue a car to a wall) I noticed I was watching what the scraper was doing and not what the hammer was doing in striking the scraper. Didn't hit my hand twice.
 
chrismpw said:
While hammering at a scraper (why does coving adhesive have to be do tough? It could glue a car to a wall) I noticed I was watching what the scraper was doing and not what the hammer was doing in striking the scraper.
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chrismpw said:
Didn't hit my hand twice.
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Well done grasshopper...I bet the once was when you thought about you not thinking about it
 
The painting still hadn't finished. The female "who is a better painter" than me, I'm told, had another weekend at it and managed a coat of paint on some if the doors and the fonts of a couple of units. There are a few runs. My painting never gets runs.

I put a second coat on all she's done in around an hour thus morning and set to installing the all swinging all dancing cupboard inserts that pull a shelf full* of stuff into view when you open a corner cupboard. It was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, assembled into kit firm by the devil and instructions written by somebody with a sick sense of humour who's never seen an instruction before. I can't even blame chinglish because there are no words used.

* which will hold about a quarter of what a shelf would hold in the same cupboard ... but what do I know ... £250 this fancy drawer/shelf cost! I think I'll start making and flogging some if I ever finish this. After all, I needed write instructions apparently.
 
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The painting still hadn't finished. The female "who is a better painter" than me, I'm told, had another weekend at it and managed a coat of paint on some if the doors and the fonts of a couple of units. There are a few runs. My painting never gets runs.

I put a second coat on all she's done in around an hour thus morning and set to installing the all swinging all dancing cupboard inserts that pull a shelf full* of stuff into view when you open a corner cupboard. It was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, assembled into kit firm by the devil and instructions written by somebody with a sick sense of humour who's never seen an instruction before. I can't even blame chinglish because there are no words used.

* which will hold about a quarter of what a shelf would hold in the same cupboard ... but what do I know ... £250 this fancy drawer/shelf cost! I think I'll start making and flogging some if I ever finish this. After all, I needed write instructions apparently.
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Is it Friday night already?
 

Had to call a halt fitting the 2nd cupboard insert on the grounds of missing parts. Half an hour on the phone describing the bits to someone who's never seen the instructions sheet.

So I cemented up a hole left by the old extractor fan so that a new hole can be bored through it one day for a chimney ... at a different angle.

Plasterer coming a day early tomorrow ... which suits me. The female wanted two electric sockets from the old kitchen mounted Lower in the wall. Obviously I can't route out the dusty plaster to do that today on the grounds of there being lots if wet paint about the gaff ... so its too late missus. (Ya could a said that weeks ago - not yesterday).
 
chrismpw said:
The sink (bought by the missus) is plumbed in. Of course I had to do something to go between the solvent welded pipes and the compression of the sink fittings which are a mm or two different diameter. Ruddy nuisance.

Then the boiling water tap had to be fitted. The input pipe is 9.5mm and the fittings on the rest of the filter system is 10mm. The 10mm speed fit I'd used in the previous installation didn't take well to bring reused resulting in a shower of water hosing me down Ruddy nuisance.

Fortunately my time making boat plumbing cooperate (European and British stsndards) meant I had a 9.5mm brass fitting I could bore out.

There was a terse and stressful couple if hours I couldn't make tea.
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There really is nothing like a 9.5mm brass to bore out, Amsterdam, many 9.5mm brasses out there..................................
 

chrismpw said:
The sink (bought by the missus) is plumbed in. Of course I had to do something to go between the solvent welded pipes and the compression of the sink fittings which are a mm or two different diameter. Ruddy nuisance.

Then the boiling water tap had to be fitted. The input pipe is 9.5mm and the fittings on the rest of the filter system is 10mm. The 10mm speed fit I'd used in the previous installation didn't take well to bring reused resulting in a shower of water hosing me down Ruddy nuisance.

Fortunately my time making boat plumbing cooperate (European and British stsndards) meant I had a 9.5mm brass fitting I could bore out.

There was a terse and stressful couple if hours I couldn't make tea.
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After my previous post on this I much prefer a 10mm Push Fit though, leaves a little gap all round for flexibility......................, nothing quite like a Push fit........


I have missed this thread, such fun
 
chrismpw said:
Prices have gone up. But have they doubled in 4 years? One thing I can't do well enough is plaster so I contacted the fella who did two rooms and a ceiling for us a few tears back. He wants a bit more than he charged us back then to skim 3 walls and a ceiling. He calculated this price while on holiday in Egypt... a place I've never afforded to go. I'll look around.

The kitchen isn't far off. Plumbing is finished, a gas man is coming Friday to fit a gas point for the hob. The wife us making glacial progress painting the cupboard doors. Last weekend she managed to undercoat one side of 4 doors. Her weekend starts Friday morning.

I've persuaded the female to go with oak work surfaces that i can fit myself and saves the hassle of making appointments with the stone fitters. I'm even looking to get quotes for chimney fitters to put a flue on the outside of what will become a lounge. In the past I've done it myself, but government regulations mean I now have to pay somebody else (who's paid the government for permission) to do this work thousands of pounds.

Yesterday though, was a cathartic day for me. I started laying the oak floor thats been hogging my workshop for space since March. With every plank I put down I get to see more of my precious milling machine. Oh baby.

I did half of the floor then remembered I was going to chip all the ex-kitchen tiles off and cut away the leak damaged ceiling plasterboard first. Ffs.
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This is defo not a mis-type is it Chris
 

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