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The new kitchen

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Where the kitchen used to be is now complete apart from some Hetas bloke coming in January to fit a flue for the stove.

So today the chairs and (most importantly) the hifi was moved in. The tv will move in once the stove can burn wood.

I have hi-fi sounding sweet as, I have an open beer.

So bugger the kitchen ... it can finish itself now.
 

BNJ1878 said:
That's an incredibly comfy looking old armchair.

And a very sturdy looking HiFi rack.

My amp/speakers/cd player are 20+ years old but still sound great.
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The armchair is 20 years old and VERY comfy - though it needs a new squab cover as the existing leather is falling apart.

The hifi rack has to go. It will be my next project as I need to make a broader, lower one out of the granite from the old kitchen worktop. That's because the tv is going to be on the wall by the window and the rack is too high to accommodate that.

The oldest part of my hifi is the pre-amp that I made around 1988. Thats the grey one with the 3 knobs. The grey (steel) facia and knobs were made new this year in a face-lift!

Speakers are my own transmission line design made around 4 years ago... although they're a revamp of a pair I made in the shape of ammonites around 15 years ago out of concrete. They were great, but then I found this insidious female I've mentioned, who objected to the aesthetic so they had to go.

My valve amp is not on show - awaiting repair :(
 
chrismpw said:
Do you want me to send around my female as a foreman? Would you like your workers to do something the 400% harder way for that 0.0000001% closer to perfection?
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No thanks mate i have my own female managing this job, any time the builder asks me a question i tell him to ask the wife because i would happily rip all the features out of the old house to make it an easier process.
 
IrishBlue2022 said:
I am just at the just started stage of my house refurb. Although I'm not doing the work because I'm useless.
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Absolutely fascinating brickwork in that first pic, was this structure always a house? Also, and forgive me for being persnickety, ah now I see - the flue goes off at an angle, so the mains outlet line that rightly comes 'top down' isn't fouling your classic straight up flue. Sound. What is the white runner/channel going from the white plug socket to the floor (and presumably underneath?
Its been some job and some mess made taking all that plaster off... whilst its off, have you inspected your damp/dry coursing? nice big gaff, love the stairs.
 

I've been working for 2 1/2 months solidly to fulfill the female's dreams. Now I'm moving onto the carpentry phase where I make built in cupboards and doors into alcoves of the newdining room and lounge. It'll be another fortnight at least.

So today when she mentions "finally you can box in those pipes in the lounge" (they're permenantly behind curtains) I respond with "do what you like ...but not using my tools" and i flat refuse.

Then I get accused of "never finishing anything" ... this isn't at all true and its passed me off now beyond any reason. It was said I think because I replaced a brass double socket,to be used elsewhere, with an old white one from the old kitchen. The white one will be unseen and quite possibly unusable inside the cupboard I have to build in - but the slight patina of age has been interpreted as "disgusting, revolting,why would you do that." How was I to know that an unseen, unused electrical socket should be cleaned and shined to the same standard as an operating theatre ffs.
 
chrismpw said:
I've been working for 2 1/2 months solidly to fulfill the female's dreams. Now I'm moving onto the carpentry phase where I make built in cupboards and doors into alcoves of the newdining room and lounge. It'll be another fortnight at least.

So today when she mentions "finally you can box in those pipes in the lounge" (they're permenantly behind curtains) I respond with "do what you like ...but not using my tools" and i flat refuse.

Then I get accused of "never finishing anything" ... this isn't at all true and its passed me off now beyond any reason. It was said I think because I replaced a brass double socket,to be used elsewhere, with an old white one from the old kitchen. The white one will be unseen and quite possibly unusable inside the cupboard I have to build in - but the slight patina of age has been interpreted as "disgusting, revolting,why would you do that." How was I to know that an unseen, unused electrical socket should be cleaned and shined to the same standard as an operating theatre ffs.
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When did you construct this spine, how long did it take and how did you camouflage the procedure?
 
Rita_Poon said:
Absolutely fascinating brickwork in that first pic, was this structure always a house? Also, and forgive me for being persnickety, ah now I see - the flue goes off at an angle, so the mains outlet line that rightly comes 'top down' isn't fouling your classic straight up flue. Sound. What is the white runner/channel going from the white plug socket to the floor (and presumably underneath?
Its been some job and some mess made taking all that plaster off... whilst its off, have you inspected your damp/dry coursing? nice big gaff, love the stairs.
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Yes it was always a house. The white runner is just electrics tracked from one socket to create another plug where the tv will be going.

I really like the brickwork and it's a shame we have to cover it but it would un-liveable heat wise.

It's a big job. We are getting the cold walls all down to brick and insulated then plastered. Floor on the ground level is suspended so getting that all insulated and new flooring. Whole house replastered, new door frames and doors, new flooring in the house, ladders into attic,new bathroom, new downstairs toilet etc. The only places untouched is the ensuite and the kitchen extension as that was only built 6 year's ago.

Its a quirky house, the 2nd living room is the shape of a 50p. Stained glass windows on the porch, bathroom windows are porthole shapes etc.

Yes all damp proofing was done not that long ago thankfully.
 

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