{"id":21703,"date":"2023-07-23T23:07:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T21:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=21703"},"modified":"2023-07-23T23:18:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T21:18:50","slug":"this-is-what-its-all-been-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/this-is-what-its-all-been-about\/","title":{"rendered":"This is what it’s all been about"},"content":{"rendered":"

I managed to do a lot of work in the kitchen today and it was a huge step towards being able to move in. It was all about getting the wall units up but it wasn’t as straightforward as all that as I’ll go on to explain.<\/p>\n

Here’s a shot of the first one. Due to the length of run of the wall I had to pack the floor units away from the wall by 16mm so I had to do the same with the wall units to make all of the widths coincide.<\/p>\n

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The first tricky bit was building in the cooker extraction hood. Luckily it measured exactly 60cm in width, the same as the oven unit, so that was a good start. Nevertheless it had to be a specific height above the hob unit and exactly level so all measurements had to be precise. <\/p>\n

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I can’t fit the rest of its chimney until the kitchen ceiling has been painted but it’ll be easy to finish the job later. I’ll have to start off with it being recirculatory for the time being until I can get around to drilling the kitchen ceiling and connecting the extraction side to a roof vent.<\/p>\n

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The next challenge was installing the next wall unit exactly vertically and maintaining exactly the same height above the worktop as the ones that were installed previously. This will be very important when I come to the tiling as the gap between the worktop and the underside of the wall units is exactly two tiles plus joints.<\/p>\n

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Then came the ultimate challenge, which was fitting the final wall unit in the gap between the previous unit and the wall. Up to now I’d had no idea whether all of my measurements had been correct or not. But actually things could not have worked out better.<\/p>\n

I had to go to Brico Depot before they closed at 1pm to pick up a length of 18mm Contiboard to pack out the final unit from the wall and after cutting it to size and fixing it in position the final unit went in accurately to the millimetre. I was both delighted and highly relieved \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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Then it was time to fit the shelves and doors and press on with the final two wall units on the other side of the kitchen.<\/p>\n

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Today was another very long day. I started at around 9.00am and finished at around 9.00pm with a brief stop for lunch but the results speak for themselves. I haven’t aligned and adjusted the wall unit doors yet – that’ll be a job for tomorrow, as will be fitting the kick boards.<\/p>\n

But I’m now close to being able to mask the kitchen up for painting its ceiling and its untiled walls. I’ll also try to do the ceiling of the separate toilet and that of the bathroom at the same time which will get me well along the road to having the house partially decorated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I managed to do a lot of work in the kitchen today and it was a huge step towards being able to move in. It was all about getting the wall units up but it wasn’t as straightforward as all that as I’ll go on to explain. Here’s a shot of the first one. Due … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21703"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21720,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21703\/revisions\/21720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}