Showing posts with label worktop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label worktop. Show all posts

Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Deadline approaching

Well, next Tuesday is the end of July.... so are we going to get it all?

Well the kitchen is looking better. The breakfast bar went on yesterday and we gave it the first of 3 coats of oil. The wood is Iroko. Before the first oiling it was not much darker than the floor, which looked odd, but it is darkening up nicely and should be a nice contrast when it's had the next 2 coats - plus we got a decent chopping board from the offcut! Just for scale, the breakfast bar is 3.6m x 62cm, so it's pretty big. And now we shouldn't keep banging our heads on the lights!

The bathroom has been tiled, but still needs grouting. More worrying, we still have a leak from the flat roof at the back - it tends to come in to the rear hall and run down to the thermostat. The granite has been ordered for the kitchen - the missing bit of worktop, the upstands and the splashback. The last handles have been ordered, but we are still missing the dishwasher door.

Phil has been busy finishing up everywhere, but we still have some work to do outside. The extractor for the bathroom has been capped, but the ensuite fan has not been sorted, there is still just a hole in the wall, plus there are still some bricks to finish the eaves - lets hope the birds have gone! We do have window beads everywhere now I think, all the doors and on and fit with handles.

Martin is up tonight to check on the UFH manifold and refit it once the gauge has been (re)moved - plus a beer to say thank you! We still haven't had Eric back to do the final flush of the heating before we get the boiler company in to comission it all - plus the upstairs thermostat is not connected....

Thursday, 14 February 2008

Small things and big things...

On the small things front, we now have a door on the ensuite (albeit with no architrave yet). Some of the block work in the rear hall has been removed as Geoff wasn't happy it was up to scratch and one of the doors on the kids' room cupboard is on.

On the bigger front the worktops were ordered yesterday for (hopefully) friday delivery. These include 2 holes for popup-power sockets from Evoline and 7 of those little metal bars for hot pans. We will unfortunately have one join on the hob run, but since that is a 3.5m run and the end which will be joined is a 90cm corner unit I suppose that is not such a surprise. The island will be a single piece though - 2.6m x 90cm, a BIG slab of 'nero absoluto' granite....

Gary the sparky has finally phoned in - he had tonsilitis so not only coudl he not come, but i expect he couldn't speak to call us either..... perhaps someone needs to show him SMS :-) He has sworn blind he and a friend will be here this weekend so we should come back to a very different lounge on monday - worktops, appliances, sockets and switches. We have decided to delay the light fittings and flooring until there is no heavy work going on, but the vast majority of the fixtures will be in place.