We now have most of a ceiling! This is the area of beams I showed in an earlier photo, looking much closer to finished. There is still one half board to go up at one side of the room, and lots of short sections to fill in along another, but none of this will be as strenuous as putting up full boards. They are 12mm thick, 1.2m x 2.4m, and incredibly heavy.
Then we were finally able to wire up the dining room light, and the four spotlights. The main kitchen lighting is awaiting the arrival of proper plasterboard fixings. After one small glitch (a snapped connection up in the area of roof only I can get to now, through the thin strip where the ceiling is not yet up), it all works. Who'd have believed it? ;-)
So, having made such fantastic progress, I was then hit by insanity, and called the worktop guy. I've made an appointment for him to do the templating on Monday morning, leaving us with just days in which to finish the plumbing for the outside tap, connect bits for the fridge water supply(!), sand and seal the two really big units, and then level them all. Once the templating is done, they are not allowed to move!
The rush here is because it will take time for the worktop to actually arrive and be installed, and it being done is one of the things we agree is essential before we have relatives up for Christmas. They will have to put up with no decoration, no carpets, and lots of unfinished bits and bobs, but if a useable (and cleanable) kitchen and bathroom are not in place, we'll be the guests elsewhere this year.
Please excuse the disgraceful state of our kitchen: it is very hard to keep a place tidy when you keep having to empty the storage to work on it! This is the view from the dining room, and the closest unit is the "breakfast bar" one, and will have an overhanging bit of worktop. Will be very handy for the pasta maker I inherited, which needs to be clamped on to something!
3 comments:
Looking very posh now Haize - I can picture it now - and sitting having a nice cuppa in there admiring your garden and soon to be veggie patch
Yes, all it takes is a bit of an imagination! The bit I'm most looking forward to is having some seating for guests / Simon, where they can talk to me with their cups of tea, whilst I mess around in the kitchen.
Or having those people lined up along that seating, preparing the fruit (from the garden) for whatever it is I'm making ;-)
My goodness what a difference since my last visit to your blog! Its coming along nicely. When you get your kitchen back all nice and new, you won't know what to put where!!!!
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