CAUTION .. THIS POST CONTAINS LANGUAGE NOT SUITABLE FOR YOUNGER AUDIENCES
How long is the road you may ask .... long enough to warrant multiple (expletive) posts. This is one of many.
So, on the Sunday before Care and kiddies arrived back from Canada, I find myself once again without a floor. Seemed like familiar ground after the ordeal with the bathroom.
This time, I was replacing some old (probably older than me) chipboard under the kitchen cabinets. Chipboard is great because it's cheap. It's also not so great because it's cheap. Do not under any circumstances use it where it would ever come into contact with water. So you can imagine what it was like in the kitchen...
So after lifting the chipboard, I was less than pleased to find one of the joists performing some kind of balancing act upon 3 bricks. Slightly less than the stable floor that I was looking for. This was quickly remedied by making a new joist across the sleeper walls (top one in the picture) and adding an additional noggin for lateral support. After this was remedied, it was time for the new floor - 18mm ply. Sturdy and much better around wetter areas.
Finally, came the cabinets. As you can see from the photo, our office is a warehouse of flat pack craziness. First, always good to start with the corner units. Particularly this one as I had to notch it to fit around the support post. Notching is not the easiest task for cabinets, and took a bit of trial and error but I finally got it to fit where I wanted it. Then came the washer - which was (expletive) heavy. And then the sink cabinet, which was a breeze to fit after the corner cabinet ordeal.
Finally, I fit the dishwasher. And (BIG EXPLETIVE), it didn't clear the pipework at the back. Why on earth, do they design a d/w that doesn't have clearance at the back. Not like you need to run it close to pipework or anything (sarcastic expletive).
So, everything needed to come out from the wall by 3cm. Fine for the sink cabinet. Not so fine for the (expletive) corner cabinet. This needed to be cut back yet again. I'm unfortunately becoming an expert at notching cabinets.
That all finished, I was ready to start on the countertop .. except there was no (expletive) countertop. The one item that didn't ship. Not a bad thing as the original one would have been too shallow after everything was shifted 3cm. A call over to B&Q and the countertop is on order - why the call was necessary in the first place, who knows.
So there you go, the first entry in the long road to cabinets .. and apologies for the strong language. I've started to adopt builder lingo ...
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