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The new kitchen
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The moment the implications really sank in
Sticky Toffee Pudding
Player Valuation: £20m
When you think about it a marriage is like having a bank account, you put it in you take it out ,you put it in you take it out, you put it in you take it out, sooner or later your bound to lose interest.
Rita_Poon
Player Valuation: £90m
ooh, it makes me wonder...
Rita_Poon
Player Valuation: £90m
Hope they were pile driven in to required standard... no point doing half a job...
Pops to Bank of England to see what rate they have applied
*comes back relieved i fixed my rate for another 5 years
*smug look on face!
Rita_Poon
Player Valuation: £90m
So long as you blow your wad in a frenzy of delight, right?
Bungle
Player Valuation: £90m
Or in this particular case you put it in, so does Derek, you take it out, so does Derek, you put it in, so does Derek, you take it out, so does Derek, she leaves you for Derek and then you take it all out to give her
Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £70m
She not getting as much wood as Chris, but she doesn't have to pay for it though.
chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
Where was I?
In May I started the new floor into the dining area- approx 10m long by 4m wide. Effectively its two rooms knocked into one which for sake of clarity we use as a dining room (middle if the house) and garden/hifi room with big doors to the garden and the kitchen off to one side. The three areas form a big open plan L shape. This is where the oak flooring was going (as well as, by this stage into the hall - did I mention that repainting the kitchen doors obviously meant reflooring the hall way? Obvious really - no need for me to bring it up.)
Also by this stage I'd hung two new windowed oak doors into the lounge and the hallway - because while we're watching a film, she's scrolling through her phone lookin at kitchen units and sees doors. I took a day trimming, planing and hanging each door, to get it exactly right.
Obviously with this new floor (she still hadn't decided on the kitchen yet) meant the two radiators needed replacing as well. Oh not just replacing ... how about putting them on a different wall. Obviously. You're probably painting a picture now of a wife who treats plumbed in appliances like a table and chairs which can be moved at will, and you'd be right. Trouble is I like a challenge so I go along with these mad stupid ideas.
The house had been extended circa 2000 by the then owner who, according to my neighbour, was a builder. This explains how the existing plumbing for the central heating system had been cobbled together with what the owner had clearly scavved off site. The radiator plumbing in the garden room was 10mm, the two pipes servicing the radiator in the dining area were 8mm and 5/16" creating a lot of work sourcing reducing fittings to attach the new radiators.
What's more - to save time and faff, I plumbed the radiators into a live undrained system. This went well using quick hands to cut pipe, a fat thumb to stop the water and a towel to soak up spills.... for three of the four pipes I had to cut. I had done those three connections in about twenty minutes. The fourth one took two of us about an hour to get a compression elbow onto the kinked stub of a pipe that only protruded the masonry by about half an inch, with around half an inch of free travel. Eventually we had two new radiators in their new positions, freeing up wall space for me to build a cabinet in the garden room ... lucky me!... who saw that coming?
I have no regrets that my thumb didn't always make a perfect seal on the pipe and that Mrs chrismpw may have got a few facefulls of black central heating water.
In May I started the new floor into the dining area- approx 10m long by 4m wide. Effectively its two rooms knocked into one which for sake of clarity we use as a dining room (middle if the house) and garden/hifi room with big doors to the garden and the kitchen off to one side. The three areas form a big open plan L shape. This is where the oak flooring was going (as well as, by this stage into the hall - did I mention that repainting the kitchen doors obviously meant reflooring the hall way? Obvious really - no need for me to bring it up.)
Also by this stage I'd hung two new windowed oak doors into the lounge and the hallway - because while we're watching a film, she's scrolling through her phone lookin at kitchen units and sees doors. I took a day trimming, planing and hanging each door, to get it exactly right.
Obviously with this new floor (she still hadn't decided on the kitchen yet) meant the two radiators needed replacing as well. Oh not just replacing ... how about putting them on a different wall. Obviously. You're probably painting a picture now of a wife who treats plumbed in appliances like a table and chairs which can be moved at will, and you'd be right. Trouble is I like a challenge so I go along with these mad stupid ideas.
The house had been extended circa 2000 by the then owner who, according to my neighbour, was a builder. This explains how the existing plumbing for the central heating system had been cobbled together with what the owner had clearly scavved off site. The radiator plumbing in the garden room was 10mm, the two pipes servicing the radiator in the dining area were 8mm and 5/16" creating a lot of work sourcing reducing fittings to attach the new radiators.
What's more - to save time and faff, I plumbed the radiators into a live undrained system. This went well using quick hands to cut pipe, a fat thumb to stop the water and a towel to soak up spills.... for three of the four pipes I had to cut. I had done those three connections in about twenty minutes. The fourth one took two of us about an hour to get a compression elbow onto the kinked stub of a pipe that only protruded the masonry by about half an inch, with around half an inch of free travel. Eventually we had two new radiators in their new positions, freeing up wall space for me to build a cabinet in the garden room ... lucky me!... who saw that coming?
I have no regrets that my thumb didn't always make a perfect seal on the pipe and that Mrs chrismpw may have got a few facefulls of black central heating water.
Shes a keeper mate, no doubts in my mind lol
Its sounds like you were going for a "snatch" a plumbing term! No pun intended but given Mrs Chris penchant for "wood" im not sure! Going for a snatch is one of the the most common f ups in the laymans plumbing adventures but it sounds like you cracked the 1st 3 Snatches well done to you Sir, no mean feat! At this point Personally would have taken the victory and rested my weary bones! But no you went for a 4th snatch, which in itself given you are retired is to your credit, given the recovery time of any snatch involvement for myself these days is about a week or two, poor Mrs Dixie, i hear you say!!
It sounds like on your 4th snatch you did get Mrs Chris very wet and a facial thrown in for good measure with lots of black gooey heating water and i bet she was eternally grateful for this!
At your time of life you do drink a lot of "tea!" *refers to earlier post! Come on keep up guys!
chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
With a new floor comes the hands an knees job of applying a nice hard wax finish .... and the trim for around the skirting boards, sawn from the (rejects of the) oak planking , routed into shape and mitre cut around every not-quite right angle of every bit of wall and buttress in the room.
The skirting boards were replaced too, along the walls where the radiators used to be boxed in because our previous owner, the builder, had obviously saved a couple of quid by not putting skirting in behind the radiators.
This was all done and finished in a week by the end if June. The kitchen dream had not yet been finalised let alone been committed to paper since the last debacle.
I say all this now because it is with a heavy heart that today I find myself destroying thus careful effort and lifting some of this new floor and removing the skirting boards. The reasons for this will become evident later.
The skirting boards were replaced too, along the walls where the radiators used to be boxed in because our previous owner, the builder, had obviously saved a couple of quid by not putting skirting in behind the radiators.
This was all done and finished in a week by the end if June. The kitchen dream had not yet been finalised let alone been committed to paper since the last debacle.
I say all this now because it is with a heavy heart that today I find myself destroying thus careful effort and lifting some of this new floor and removing the skirting boards. The reasons for this will become evident later.
I think I tried to get a DIY thread going ages a go but no one was interested.. lol lol
Lobster Johnson
Player Valuation: £35m
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