Coming along

I’ve been pressing on with fitting out my utility room. Slow and steady is the name of the game because it’s been quite a tricky job involving lots of cutting to fit the base unit around the many pipes on the wall behind it. I’ve also had to run the waste for the sink which had to be as close to the wall as possible to allow the freezer to push back as far as it possibly could and then enter the base unit from the side through a very narrow gap between the side panel of the unit and the hot supply to the sink.

It would have been very easy to make mistakes but I’ve closely followed the well-known advice to measure twice and cut once. And so far I’m very pleased with how everything has gone because nothing has gone amiss to spoil the look of the job which is always very close to my heart. This included notching the back edge of the worktop for the hot supply that descends the wall, which came out perfectly, as well as all of the cut-outs that I had to do to both sides of the cabinet to accommodate the pipework.

There’s still quite a bit more to do and although I may not finish the job tomorrow, I should get it done by the week-end which was always my principal aim. The worktop and sink are not yet fixed in the above images and that will be my first job tomorrow. It shouldn’t take too long, although the front and back fixings of the sink might be a bit tricky, and then it will be time to hang the wall cabinets which are assembled and ready.

Some people might be wondering why I’m fitting a sink in the utility room because it’s possible that I won’t use it all that much. The reason is that I don’t see my house as being purely for me – rather it’s a small three bedroom family home for which a sink in the utility room is perfectly appropriate. I always built the services in for it and it’ll be difficult to install a sink and connect them later, when the room is completely fitted, so now’s obviously the time to do it.