Kitchen progress week 1

We are now at the end of an exciting week of activity on the kitchen project, Chris and Kevin have started on the installation and seems to be progressing well (see photos below).

Day 0 -The units were delivered.

Day 1 - First Fix.

Day 2

Day 3 - Doors and inserts underway.

It is now Friday 13th. June (oops !!!) and the fitters have finished for weekend and will return next week to install appliances door handles etc.

Doreen is combing through the cookery books and promising to cook some fantastic meals, although she may be a little out of practice as she has not cooked for nearly 6 months !!!!

Kitchen Project Phase 2

24 April we returned fully relaxed from our 55 day holiday to find that the fairies had not finished the kitchen whilst we were away and the Electrician had been booked to start first fix 28th April.

So after 3 days non-stop washing/drying all our holiday clothes the electrician arrived on time.

The rubbish built up in the back garden, but two days hard graft by Geoffrey and a six yard skip it was soon gone.

Resorted to the help of a plasterer to box in the support beams, create false ceiling and plaster walls (money well spent, thank you Neil) meanwhile Geoffrey relocated plumbing to kitchen and the new toilet, including boxing in the electrics to the new toilet.

We seem to be on the homeward run now, with painting and decorating getting underway with help from Andrew with coving (thanks Andrew)

We are now relaxing after a hectic 5 weeks since our holiday (seems more like 5 months) waiting for the kitchen units to be delivered tomorrow for installation starting next week. 

Kitchen Project Phase 1

We thought you would be interested in an update of progress on our new kitchen project started during January 2014.

After reviewing various schemes ranging from a quick paint over , to a major extension across the back of the house, we finally decided on a scheme involving knocking the existing kitchen and utility room into one and relocating the downstairs toilet to the hall utilising the old larder.  So decision made we embarked on the project in January.

First job for Geoffrey was to remove the existing units and tiling and making good the damage around windows, a major job as the walls were tiled from floor to ceiling. 

Geoffrey rigged up a temporary sink arrangement so that Doreen could continue cooking etc. using the fridge,microwave, electric wok, kettle, larder all relocated into the conservatory !!!

Next job for geoffrey was to demolish the old doorway into the kitchen (including a very large concrete lintel weighing 100kg ) then rebuilding in new location. 

We then decided to get some help knocking out the wall between the two rooms and installing a new support beam.

It was now nearly the end of February and work came to a halt whilst Doreen and Geoffrey went on a well earned cruise from Shanghai back to Southampton via Asia and South Africa, see blogs above.