Thursday 15 February 2018

Next stage of kitchen update

My poor husband has given himself chilblain's standing around in his workshop making kitchen cabinets on a concrete floor in freezing temperatures. So I have given him the week off and we have completed the next stage of the indoor work on the kitchen.

First we had to go to the tip/recycling centre.  We had a pile of stuff on the drive already so it had to go before we added more. Our neighbour had dire warnings about being restricted in taking stuff and being charged extra last time he went so we carefully took things apart and varied the load. No problems for us and we politely asked the men which bin they wanted things in. We went cross country too, to avoid some road works, and explored some villages and river crossings on the way to Kings Lynn which was pleasant as for an hour or two it was actually sunny.

Back home it only took 4 hours and 4 rubble bags to take the tiles off with a hammer and chisel as they were hardly stuck on with much. The last wall cabinet (the yellow bit) is being recycled into storage in the brick shed later.

Unfortunately yet more awful electrical installation was revealed as the sockets had been held in by the tiles. They are not seated into the walls and are hanging off. Another call to our friendly electrician today for some more remedial work.

Are you enjoying the winter Olympics? I can't understand half the activities (why would someone want to do that at high speed in the cold?) but I do enjoy the Curling!


2 comments:

  1. Looks like you are making progress. I remember getting chillblains when I was first a work. Oh how they itch when they are coming back up to normal temperature. I used an old toothbrush to scratch them because I'd make my feet bleed. Horrid.

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    1. Ouch! Sudacreme seems to help (and its cheap).

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