After a late-ish start I got the grouting done for the remaining half of the tiled floor. Some of the tiles had not set properly and were moving about a bit but I managed to keep them straight and then got the hell off of them before they moved again!
Grouting was all done by lunchtime so after a quick sandwich I got on with putting together the first corner unit. All of the other base units are going to come from this unit so it was important that it was perfect.
The unit assembled pretty straightforwardly, even if trying to put it up on its legs on my own caused a few problems. Because I am having plinths I have got the very cheap plastic legs and they only take the weight vertically. Any horizontal movement and they pop out of the sockets. I like to think of myself as pretty strong but I can’t flip a corner base unit like an omelette so I had to resort to suspending the unit on a plastic tool box slightly higher than the legs, pop the legs on and then slide the unit carefully off. That took a few goes to get right!
The walls in the corner aren’t at a nice 90 degree angle of course but got it as good as was possible, marked the fixing holes and screwed it in using plasterboard fixings which promptly popped out of the wall! Aaaargh!
Before I got annoyed with it I decided to crack on with the oven base unit which goes next to the corner one. That went together ok but the gas supply and an isolator are right on the edge of the cabinet so that needed hacking about a bit.
The cooker is in a different place to the original one and the isolator switch and socket are directly above where the hob is going to go so that has got to be moved.
And that’s about as far as I got before showering and heading over to my sister’s for a lovely dinner and a few beers. Proper plates, metal cutlery and beer from a glass were a real treat for someone who has been eating off paper plates for the past six days. Dinner was lovely too! As usual when I stay over at Sarah’s I must have slept while doing headstands so I write this on the morning of day seven with a pain in the neck.
On the way home this morning I popped into B&Q for some cable for the cooker point and some more substantial plasterboard fixings. I’ve got the plumber, Colm, coming over later to look at the gas installation for the hob. I hope that he will be able to fix it temporarily in place with a bayonet type fitting so I can remove it and fix it back in place when the counters go down.
This means that today’s priorities are getting that corner unit secured to the wall, attaching the oven cabinet to the corner unit and moving that cooker supply.
If yesterday’s rather frustrating progress is anything to go by I think this will be about all that will be achieved today. I am getting a little despondent at how slowly this is all coming together. I really want a sink back but that will be the last base unit to go down so that will be a few days at least – and a hell of a lot of plumbing as it is a real dog’s dinner down there at the moment.
Onwards and upwards...
Grouting was all done by lunchtime so after a quick sandwich I got on with putting together the first corner unit. All of the other base units are going to come from this unit so it was important that it was perfect.
The unit assembled pretty straightforwardly, even if trying to put it up on its legs on my own caused a few problems. Because I am having plinths I have got the very cheap plastic legs and they only take the weight vertically. Any horizontal movement and they pop out of the sockets. I like to think of myself as pretty strong but I can’t flip a corner base unit like an omelette so I had to resort to suspending the unit on a plastic tool box slightly higher than the legs, pop the legs on and then slide the unit carefully off. That took a few goes to get right!
The walls in the corner aren’t at a nice 90 degree angle of course but got it as good as was possible, marked the fixing holes and screwed it in using plasterboard fixings which promptly popped out of the wall! Aaaargh!
Before I got annoyed with it I decided to crack on with the oven base unit which goes next to the corner one. That went together ok but the gas supply and an isolator are right on the edge of the cabinet so that needed hacking about a bit.
The cooker is in a different place to the original one and the isolator switch and socket are directly above where the hob is going to go so that has got to be moved.
And that’s about as far as I got before showering and heading over to my sister’s for a lovely dinner and a few beers. Proper plates, metal cutlery and beer from a glass were a real treat for someone who has been eating off paper plates for the past six days. Dinner was lovely too! As usual when I stay over at Sarah’s I must have slept while doing headstands so I write this on the morning of day seven with a pain in the neck.
On the way home this morning I popped into B&Q for some cable for the cooker point and some more substantial plasterboard fixings. I’ve got the plumber, Colm, coming over later to look at the gas installation for the hob. I hope that he will be able to fix it temporarily in place with a bayonet type fitting so I can remove it and fix it back in place when the counters go down.
This means that today’s priorities are getting that corner unit secured to the wall, attaching the oven cabinet to the corner unit and moving that cooker supply.
If yesterday’s rather frustrating progress is anything to go by I think this will be about all that will be achieved today. I am getting a little despondent at how slowly this is all coming together. I really want a sink back but that will be the last base unit to go down so that will be a few days at least – and a hell of a lot of plumbing as it is a real dog’s dinner down there at the moment.
Onwards and upwards...
