{"id":22511,"date":"2024-01-23T21:39:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T20:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=22511"},"modified":"2024-01-23T21:50:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T20:50:54","slug":"99-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/99-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"99% finished"},"content":{"rendered":"

After today, my utility room is finished except for the small amount of plinth around the base of the floor mounted cupboard and the finishing strip on the end of the worktop. As both tasks involve applying edging strip I decided to leave them until tomorrow and do them together. There’s still the tiling to be done, as there is in the kitchen, but just as for the kitchen, the room can now be used to its full extent and the tiling can be done as and when I can get round to it at a later date.<\/p>\n

Making the new back panel for the small wall mounted cupboard took a long time, much longer than I’d anticipated. I’m a self-confessed perfectionist but totally understand that in jobs requiring craftsman-like skills, perfection can only be attained by real craftsmen. I have no pretensions on that score so I just try to do the best job I can, aiming for a result that I am happy and can live with, and almost invariably that takes time.<\/p>\n

Cutting out the new back panel for the hot water pipe proved to be quite difficult and very time consuming even with having the old panel as a template. What complicated things was that not only did the adjustments to the back, side and bottom of the cupboard have to accommodate the water pipe but they also had to allow for the angles that the cupboard had to be placed in and the height it had to be placed at to attach it to the wall fixings.<\/p>\n

This would have been easily done by chopping more away but then the job would have been ruined. Here’s how it actually came out and I was happy with the end result.<\/p>\n

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Now a series of shots of the 99% finished room after I’d cleared up at the end of the day.<\/p>\n

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It’s been an arduous few days getting this room done but well worth the effort. As I only have a couple of small jobs to do and will then just take the rubbish up to the waste bins, I’ll probably have a bit of a lie-in tomorrow morning. I’ve decided that I’ve earned it \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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