{"id":21521,"date":"2023-07-03T21:26:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T19:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=21521"},"modified":"2023-07-03T21:26:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T19:26:58","slug":"pressing-on-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/pressing-on-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressing on"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today it was time to tackle the worst part of this whole install. There will be some other tricky bits still to do as will become evident as the installation proceeds but they will be nothing like as difficult as today’s job, which was to make cut-outs in the long right hand unit in various places to take the services for the dishwasher and the rear outside tap.<\/p>\n

Here’s what was involved in cutting a groove in the end panel of the cabinet to accommodate the pipe for the latter.<\/p>\n

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It’s not pretty but it will not be visible once the cabinet is fully installed into position together with its internal swing-out storage unit.<\/p>\n

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I also swapped out the dishwasher tap that the plumber fitted. It was much too big and I changed it for one that I much prefer that I obtained on my last visit to Leroy Merlin.<\/p>\n

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I then made my first big mistake of the installation when I cut out the lower right hand corner of the cabinet to take the dishwasher waste pipe. I took much too much out of the floor – I don’t know what possessed me because I could see that it was only holding the cabinet 1\/2 cm off the wall so that’s all that was needed to be removed. But never mind, it’s not in a place where it will be highly visible and it’ll be an easy thing to disguise as you’ll see later.<\/p>\n

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It took me all of five hours to do the work on the end cabinet and another hour to get the other two adjacent cabinets ready to be installed and clean the place up.<\/p>\n

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The vertical sheet of Contiboard that is between the two cabinets is there because I was deciding how to use it to join them. Brico Depot supplied two special joining pieces but they cannot be used as they require the right hand cabinet in the pictures to be stood 3cm off the wall. I can’t do that as I don’t have the space so I’ve now worked out how to make my own joiners and the two special ones can be returned for a refund.<\/p>\n

The work is quite physical as I’m having to lift the cabinets and manhandle them by myself taking great care when I turn them over not to break the legs off in the process. So I was quite tired by that time and decided to call it a day. But I didn’t just stop work, far from it.<\/p>\n

I needed to order the ‘hotte’ (extractor) from Leroy Merlin which I did and got a better price than when I looked originally. I also needed to order a sink (Amazon, price again reduced), a mixer tap (‘mitigeur’, Amazon price increased but I got a reduced price one with damaged packaging). I also need a sink waste trap so I ordered that at the same time and all of the above will be delivered on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The dishwasher will also be delivered on Thursday which is a great relief as originally they quoted a 10 day delivery delay. I couldn’t finish off the cut-outs on the large cabinet today because I need to know how the inlet and outlet pipes are arranged on the back of the dishwasher in order to avoid the mistake the plumber made in the utility room and have them crossing over.<\/p>\n

This means that I won’t be able to do very much tomorrow while waiting for these deliveries. I think it might be a good idea to clear the kitchen of tools etc, mask it up and paint the ceiling and coving. That would have the additional benefit of finally allowing the LED spots to be fitted in the ceiling instead of hanging there like roosting fruit bats \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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