More kitchen

My main aim for today was to get all of the floor units on the left hand side of the kitchen permanently fitted in position and I did that in three hours before stopping for a light lunch.

In the photographs you can see that I used some of one of the items that I purchased yesterday from Brico Depot, a sheet of white Contiboard, to pack the cabinet on the far right 16mm or so off the wall. I did that because the length of the wall against which the cabinets are fixed is a few centimetres longer than in my plan and if I hadn’t added the packing, the gap at the other end would have been considerably wider than the 60cm needed for the fridge.

But not only that, the wall cabinets will be aligned with those mounted on the floor and therefore there would also have been a large gap between the wall cabinet on the left end and the wall which would then have needed filling in some way. As it is now, I will pack the wall cabinet on the right end away from the wall by the same amount as the floor cabinet and this will leave a similar gap between the left hand wall cabinet and the wall at that end which I’ll fill with an equal amount of packing, so the whole arrangement is balanced.

The installation of the floor mounted cabinets on the other walls of the kitchen will be much more complex because of the need to ‘build in’ the pipework and services. Apart from the appallingly large ball valve that the plumber has put under the sink, which seems to be completely unnecessary as all it does is shut off the rear outside tap, installing the sink taps and waste will be fairly straightforward.

Dealing with the dishwasher is not so and I’ve been thinking how to accommodate its supply and waste which will be behind the adjacent cabinet. And installing that cabinet will be further complicated by the need to cut a large notch or groove out of its end that abuts against the wall because the supply for the outside tap runs up it and will otherwise prevent the cabinet touching against the wall.

I’ve now decided how to do it and as I want to get all of the above installed tomorrow together with the cabinet that the sink will be mounted above I ended up going off to Leroy Merlin again to get what I’ll need. Better to use late afternoon time today than to waste half a day at least tomorrow when I can be cracking on doing the job with the whole day ahead of me.