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For the past few days I’ve been trying to get over to Brico Depot and Leroy Merlin to buy the materials I need to finish off my utility room and get started on building my new cloaks cupboard. Ideally I only wanted to make a single trip to both suppliers but up to today I wasn’t able to.<\/p>\n

The reason has been that the worktop I need for the utility room only comes in a length of 3 metres and that’s too long to fit into my car even with the back and front passenger seats lowered, so I’d have to transport it in my large open trailer. It’s bad enough having to do that with the risk of damaging it but at the very least it needed a dry day, which we haven’t had recently.<\/p>\n

We haven’t had heavy rain as such. Instead we’ve had constant thick mist lasting most or all of the day making everything dripping wet, especially my trailer, but today it cleared enough this afternoon for me to give it a go. Fortunately it went OK.<\/p>\n

First I went to Leroy Merlin to buy the wood I need for the front panel for the cloaks cupboard. Leroy Merlin is the only place advertising wood in 2.5 metre lengths (the others only go to 2.4 metres which is not long enough) and I was shocked at the price. Four lengths of 2.5m x 20mm x 90mm (I was originally going to buy five to make sure I had enough but decided not to) cost 18,90\u20ac each, but I had no choice.<\/p>\n

Then I went to Brico Depot where I picked up the worktop, a small sink and a waste system. I’d banked on some help loading the worktop onto the trailer as its weight is too much for one person but the bloke who helped me wasn’t much help as he’d hurt his arm and could hardly lift anything. Despite this we got it on and I then protected its vulnerable bits with sheets of cardboard from the packing cases that the utility room units had come in, which I’d taken with me.<\/p>\n

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It stayed dry enough during the drive home and I managed to get it off the trailer by myself and into my living room where it’s now standing. So now I’m all ready to crack on with my utility room and if all goes smoothly, should have it finished fairly quickly. I want to get it done before I start on the cloaks cupboard as I don’t like having two or more jobs on the go at the same time even though sometimes it’s unavoidable. When both jobs are finished I’ll at last, after all these months, be able to start emptying my stuff out of storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past few days I’ve been trying to get over to Brico Depot and Leroy Merlin to buy the materials I need to finish off my utility room and get started on building my new cloaks cupboard. Ideally I only wanted to make a single trip to both suppliers but up to today I … 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-22465","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\/22465","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=22465"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22473,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22465\/revisions\/22473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}