{"id":4756,"date":"2013-06-05T23:30:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T22:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4756"},"modified":"2013-06-06T09:22:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T08:22:33","slug":"slow-but-steady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/slow-but-steady\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow but steady"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a really lovely day today, possibly a little too windy to fly if I’d been able to, but with a gorgeous blue sky and wall-to-wall sunshine. But I had to continue with my kitchen work, so couldn’t take very much advantage of it, although I did manage a half hour or so in the garden after I’d had my lunch. It was pretty hot and I know I caught some more sun even in the short time I was outside. I went to the shop at 6.45pm and my car temperature gauge showed that it was still 25 degrees Celsius then, so it must have been quite a bit warmer than that mid-afternoon.<\/p>\n

Kitchen progress has been a bit slower than I’d hoped for a couple of reasons. The assembly instructions that come with each item are not as clear as they might be which makes the first time for anything quite slow. After that, things speed up but I’m only just coming towards the end of all the ‘firsts’! Secondly, because my house is quite old, the walls and floors are not that true, so I find myself constantly adjusting and tweeking to get the kind of finished job that I want. This is the main advantage of doing things yourself, of course, because a contractor could never put in the hours that I am. This means that you’d either end up with things being done their way rather than yours or, in the worst case, a bit of a bodge-up where they’ve cut corners to get around the problems that arise as the job proceeds.<\/p>\n

As I explained in my previous post, I decided not to bother making the wall good behind the corner cabinet but instead to cover the electric cable tubes with a plywood cover. This is how it came out. I took the picture while the emulsion was drying and it ended up looking a bit tidier than it appears, not that appearance was that important as it’s hidden behind the corner unit.<\/p>\n

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So the first job today was fixing the junction boxes to the wall after which I then re-ran the cable for the cooker and fitted a new power point to the end of it. It all went to plan and then I was finally able to complete the permanent installation of the corner unit followed by the adjoining 40cm unit. It was all of the tweeking involved in this that took the time today, but I just had to be patient, because getting this corner right will I think be the trickiest part of the whole job. I placed the last 60cm unit into position next to the 40cm one, but there wasn’t going to be enough time to fit it because I’ve got to make an in-fill panel between its end and the wall. So instead I thought I’d make up a drawer and door for the 40cm unit so I know what’s involved for all of the others. Here’s how the finished articles looked at the end of it.<\/p>\n

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The ‘facades’ are solid American oak and the doors and drawers are all the ‘soft-n’-silent’ close variety. I like the look very much and if things keep going as they are, I hope to eventually end up with a very attractive kitchen that nicely suits the character of the house. But there’s still a long way to go, and we’ll see what we will see at the end of it \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had a really lovely day today, possibly a little too windy to fly if I’d been able to, but with a gorgeous blue sky and wall-to-wall sunshine. But I had to continue with my kitchen work, so couldn’t take very much advantage of it, although I did manage a half hour or so in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4756","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\/4756","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=4756"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4765,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions\/4765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}