Well, rolling credits first....
Hope no one here works for B&Q , because after this week I am convinced it stands for Brainsurgeons and QuantumPhysicists.
Had to go back 6 times, to get bits, buy more carcasses, and then also to buy stuff they had delivered incorrectly, which had me driving to Strood to fetch, as they did not have stock.... that was a 110 minute trip in its own. Every trip to the Gillingham branch took an average of 50 minutes.
The carcass I had to buy had no holes drilled for the feet to fit in, so I had to cut the feet with a jigsaw (Pretty stupid ehh ? ) The holes for dowels were not drilled etc.
I had taken 4 days leave the past week to do this job.... thinking that it would leave us a weekend free to do whatever the weather permitted.
Anyway,
Before it ends up as a fully fledged whinge.
Nicola bought the house 18 months ago, knowing it needed some work, but possibly not realising what bodges had been done in the past. I soon found out.
OK: Forgot to mention, the tiles had to stay, because she likes them, even though I had offered to retile for her, which is something I am pretty good at.
A few months ago her kitchen sink drain again blocked, and overflow was into the cupboard.... we also realised that this was not the first time , as wood was swollen etc.... so decided to gut half the kitchen and reskin etc the rest to keep costs down.
The moment I started to do what I thought was a quick screw one off, and screw a new door on, I realised the hinge holes were not the same as when the original units were done......
I had to close every small hole with a match stick whittled to size, then cut off ans wood glued into place, after which I could mark out the new positions and drill them.
Once the hinges were on the doors, the carcass mounting holes differed as well, at least here I could use the topmost and bottom holes, and needed to only drill two more holes, of a different size to the first 4. So a quick job this was not going to be.
Based on doing my own kitchen a few years ago:
www.maximumbikes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5818&highlight=kitchen+magic
Kitchen as it was.
Hole plugging.
Some of the doors came damged like this.... I actually fitted it as 50 minutes per return trip got to me in the end.
Building some of the new carcasses
5 days of chaos, lucky the kids were in Italy (Earthquake zone) and Amsterdam (Perfecty for a 17 year old girl and her ex-boyfriend)
More incorrectly holed units...
All this got ripped out and replaced too.
Measure twice, cut once....?
Not me ;D and of course I did cock it up, lucky in a way I could fix easily.
Had Sam, the neighbours son helping at this point as the worktops were too much for me to handle alone... bastards are heavy.
Almost there...
Done !!
Note the before and after, not much difference, but 5 days of my life gone and a few more grey hairs on my head.
To....
Hope no one here works for B&Q , because after this week I am convinced it stands for Brainsurgeons and QuantumPhysicists.
Had to go back 6 times, to get bits, buy more carcasses, and then also to buy stuff they had delivered incorrectly, which had me driving to Strood to fetch, as they did not have stock.... that was a 110 minute trip in its own. Every trip to the Gillingham branch took an average of 50 minutes.
The carcass I had to buy had no holes drilled for the feet to fit in, so I had to cut the feet with a jigsaw (Pretty stupid ehh ? ) The holes for dowels were not drilled etc.
I had taken 4 days leave the past week to do this job.... thinking that it would leave us a weekend free to do whatever the weather permitted.
Anyway,
Before it ends up as a fully fledged whinge.
Nicola bought the house 18 months ago, knowing it needed some work, but possibly not realising what bodges had been done in the past. I soon found out.
OK: Forgot to mention, the tiles had to stay, because she likes them, even though I had offered to retile for her, which is something I am pretty good at.
A few months ago her kitchen sink drain again blocked, and overflow was into the cupboard.... we also realised that this was not the first time , as wood was swollen etc.... so decided to gut half the kitchen and reskin etc the rest to keep costs down.
The moment I started to do what I thought was a quick screw one off, and screw a new door on, I realised the hinge holes were not the same as when the original units were done......
I had to close every small hole with a match stick whittled to size, then cut off ans wood glued into place, after which I could mark out the new positions and drill them.
Once the hinges were on the doors, the carcass mounting holes differed as well, at least here I could use the topmost and bottom holes, and needed to only drill two more holes, of a different size to the first 4. So a quick job this was not going to be.
Based on doing my own kitchen a few years ago:
www.maximumbikes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5818&highlight=kitchen+magic
Kitchen as it was.
Hole plugging.
Some of the doors came damged like this.... I actually fitted it as 50 minutes per return trip got to me in the end.
Building some of the new carcasses
5 days of chaos, lucky the kids were in Italy (Earthquake zone) and Amsterdam (Perfecty for a 17 year old girl and her ex-boyfriend)
More incorrectly holed units...
All this got ripped out and replaced too.
Measure twice, cut once....?
Not me ;D and of course I did cock it up, lucky in a way I could fix easily.
Had Sam, the neighbours son helping at this point as the worktops were too much for me to handle alone... bastards are heavy.
Almost there...
Done !!
Note the before and after, not much difference, but 5 days of my life gone and a few more grey hairs on my head.
To....
