{"id":4776,"date":"2013-06-07T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4776"},"modified":"2013-06-07T20:02:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T19:02:47","slug":"just-a-bit-more-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/just-a-bit-more-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a bit more done"},"content":{"rendered":"

But not as much as I’d have liked! I’d left a decision about the corner unit until today, so this morning I had to make up my mind about something. I’d originally planned for the 40cm wide opening part to have a drawer to match the two adjacent units but as I have two 1\/2 moon swing baskets inside it that far from make the best use of the space available, it had occurred to me that if I wanted to store stuff in the far corners where the baskets don’t reach, it would be almost impossible to reach in with a drawer above my head. The alternative was to put the drawer somewhere else, in fact it will now be close to the sink drainer where it will be very convenient as a cutlery drawer, and fit a full height door, and that’s what I decided to do.<\/p>\n

The swing baskets are intended for use without there being a shelf in the cabinet, but I decided that I’d like to retain mine to give me surfaces at two levels in the corners where the baskets can’t reach, to store stuff on. It needed a little bit of tweeking to clear the pivot point of the upper basket but looked fine once I’d finished. And when I’d fitted the door, I knew that I’d done the right thing, as the following picture shows.<\/p>\n

\"null\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As you can see in the pics, as I don’t have any worktops yet, I’ve used cartons containing units I don’t need yet as temporary replacements and to keep dust out of the units that I’ve installed. This means that I can use them if I’m careful, which is convenient, and I’ve already taken the opportunity to fill up the storage space that they provide. Sheer luxury compared to having my stuff standing out in the open as it was \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

After casting my net as widely as I can, it appears that the only place where I can easily source worktops from that are 65cm deep is Leroy Merlin in Perigueux. I haven’t visited their branch yet but their web site shows that they will be subject to an order delay of 12-15 days. This is going to cause me a few problems. I can’t install a sink or cooker hob without a worktop so I’m going to be rather stuck until the ones I order eventually arrive. The up-side is that while I’m waiting, I’ll be able to get the X-Air’s wings rigged and as all of the fields are now being mown for hay, the timing could be about right if I want to take off when the aircraft is ready from the field opposite my house. The down-side is that I need to take out the old gas water heater on my kitchen wall and fit a new Steatite electric heater on the wall in my bathroom. It would be nice to be able to smash out the old sink and do all of the plumbing at the same time, but as this now won’t be possible, I’ll have to plan for a kind of ‘half-way-house’ arrangement that connects the new heater while leaving the old pipework in place. Inconvenient, and yet-again a bit time-consuming, but not impossible to do \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Just a quick comment to finish off with. Whoever put in the existing pipework made provision for a dishwasher in the form of a water supply and adjacent electric socket. I’m re-using the socket for my washing machine which, in the French way, is currently in my bathroom, as I don’t intend to have a dishwasher. They send too many chemicals into your ‘fosse septique’ (septic tank) and use too much water in any case, so I’m moving my washing machine into the kitchen, which will be more convenient and also free up the corner of the bathroom where I’ll be mounting the new electric water heater. The water supply in the kitchen is just a pipe ‘teed-off’ from the cold water supply and ever since I’ve been here it has had a small damp patch underneath it. So it’s leaking a bit, not enough to be able to see, but enough to show on the floor, so I’ll have to replace it when I re-do the plumbing. I’ve noticed that since I’ve started work on the kitchen, the damp patch has been getting bigger. I just hope that the pipe holds long enough for me to get the work done and I don’t wake up one morning to find the house awash. That would be ironic now I’m doing the work as it must have been like it for donkey’s years \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But not as much as I’d have liked! I’d left a decision about the corner unit until today, so this morning I had to make up my mind about something. I’d originally planned for the 40cm wide opening part to have a drawer to match the two adjacent units but as I have two 1\/2 … 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-4776","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\/4776","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=4776"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4793,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions\/4793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}