I'd taken the Friday and Monday off work to try and get as much work done on the kitchen as possible. In the end, I finished feeling a little frustrated that we'd got *so* close but yet *so* far from actually attaching everything permanently, able to move on and forget this 'room' as done.
But anyhow...
As Kate's talked about, putting the flat packed units together wasn't too difficult - they're all dowelled and glued. We'd not spotted that the back of the large unit uses cams, which were supplied but missing the metal dowel pegs. I reckon the posh kitchen company we got these from aren't very used to supplying their quality products as flat pack! :)
The advent of the kitchen meant Kate's magic table (a story for another time) got reduced to a sort of tea-tray on legs...
With the oven unit in place, we could see the space available for our extension to it... Yes, I know we could have paid the kitchen company to custom make it, but the MFC sheet was only £25 and I was feeling positive about careful woodwork, probably foolishly...
So, careful woodwork it was... Note Kate's carefully drilled holes giving the choice of shelf positions already mentioned in her post! :)
I was quite chuffed with how this turned out, here it is in a near to final position...
The fridge and oven / hob electric supplies are going in the bottom of this shelving unit, with the central heating pump going underneath, behind the plinth...
Kate measured up the end wall of the kitchen visible in this shot. Fitted perfectly first time. This is 12mm ply, which will have Aquaboard on the reverse side, then tiled, as it forms the area around the solid-fuel stove...
I managed to get the kitchen sockets installed - the ply that the socket is mounted into in the pic, is a backer for the tiling that'll go along above the worktop. The pattresses are conventional steel ones, which are screwed and glued into the ply...
With the worktop test fitted, it even looks like a kitchen. The hob needs cutting into the space above the oven. They're both gas and the LPG jets for the oven are on order. They come free with the hob. Goodness knows how you're supposed to connect both on rigid pipe without being able to get to the fittings, and cutting the worktop so close to the edge is giving me nightmares.
I managed to connect the fridge socket and FCUs. This is connected 'in' the radial so in to the end socket, through the middle and out the other end to continue down the boat. The two FCUs need fusing down to 3A for the oven and hob.
Bit scared about cutting this in:
So that's about it for the four day kitchen-fest.
I also managed a few other jobs, like moving the Morco to somewhere closer to its final position, and attempting a bit of soldered bit of copper piping which was a bit of an epic fail due to trying to get five small pieces of pipe and elbows into about a total of 120mm. Ah well.
More to come soon, as I'm hoping we can get the rest of the bits ordered to complete the kitchen this week and get it nailed next weekend...
:)
PC
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