Been a busy couple of days at the house, so just starting to get caught up on my blog updates.
The only thing more damaging than a man with a saw and a hammer is 4 men with 4 saws and 4 hammers. Today the calvalry arrived, Falcon Windows and Tom to move things along. The house was a complete construction site.
The last thing to take out of the kitchen was the countertop. The boiler piping was nicely weaved in and out of the countertop and well beyond my tool and skill capacity. Tom helped out with his Dewalt oscillating multi-tool - an amazing piece of kit that made short work of the counter
And that was it. The kitchen was no longer a kitchen. Not really sure what it was really. Just a mess I think.
We also started taking up the floor and found some nice disco tiling. It wasn't going to be Staying Alive for very long however. Problem was that it was nailed and glued down and didn't want to give up without a fight. We got there in the end and finally found the floorboards.
The piping underneath was a rats nest. Tom fixed it up with some lay flat plastic pipe. Also really cool stuff. Getting lengths of copper under the floor would have been next to impossible. Which is why the original was so crooked.
We (Tom) also drilled a new hole for the kitchen waste pipe to make it easier to connect the sink in the new location.
This will the worst the kitchen will look hopefully .. now the rebuild begins. As a taste, I've shown the wall that I've re-plastered which is where the new rad will be going. Overall, happy with the result.
Stay tuned. Lots of more updates to come .....
What's for dinner?
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