Still on the Kitchen!

It's been a while! Luckily for you, I've got lots of photos this round!

I'll start by telling you that we've had a few weekends off to enjoy the sunshine and to actually have a social life...so we are still not finished in the Kitchen front!

Richard Browne has continued to plumb away and he is pretty much done now!

We have a tank full of water and fully plumbed into the mains!

These pipes will be boxed in 

Our pump is in and everything is connected up to the hot water tank.

Our hot water will be from the Rayburn which we can't get going until at least one radiator is in

We decided we didn't want big chunky radiators taking up space so decided

Pretty early on we wanted to try skirting radiators. 

Andy found a company who advised their aluminium skirting could be bent, so we had 5 meters delivered.

We can see now why the company recommend they are the ones who come and bend it! Our round room is all over he place...so we needed bends here and there and everywhere!

But persistence paid off and it was eventually bent into the shape of the room. 

Prior to this, Andy had put up some cladding, which I then painted. He found some flexible decorative dado rail which was also painted to match. And the result looks bloody good!

The trim round the top of the skirting needs finishing off. When the radiator is on it should shrink a bit so we are waiting for that before we add some caulking and paint it. I can't decide if it should be the same colour as the wall or the same colour as the cladding. 

Radiator in, plumbing done and the flue is in place! We bought some smoke bombs to test there was no leaking and it was successful first time! The smoke went straight up and out the chimney! 

We are very nearly ready to fire up Ray! We just need Mr Browne to come back and finish up a little bit more and cap some pipes. 

Given we have our water plumbed in, we also have taps we can turn on and off!

The pressure is actually not that bad! We will be having a pump for the shower as we both like a good blast when showering!

We've stained and waxed the worktops nice and dark to match the floor and I've been busy sanding and painting our kitchen cupboards. It's still not fully complete, and I'm not 100% happy with the colour I've painted them, but it's certainly come along!

We also decided to clean and paint the window and will replace the highest pain of glass where the extractor fan was. It's actually come up pretty well, so we will save some money by not replacing the window frame.

We also purchased some wooden cabinets to go on the other side of the fridge and hot water cabinet as some additional storage and decoration

Obviously we still have a bit to do with the painting but it is definitely getting there.

Finally, we've had a huge issue with our fridge and freezer.

I returned home from work one evening to find the house full of smoke and a sheepish looking Andy holding a fire extinguisher. Apparently he decided to plug in the fridge and freezer that came with our kitchen and they both exploded and caught on fire!

So we went online to Currys to buy a new one. I won't bore you with the whole story, but we basically were sent a damaged item with the replacement item also being damaged. That wouldn't have been so bad if it didn't take about 30 phone calls to Currys customer service to be told contradicting information around exchanges, delivery and refunds.

In the end, we physically took the 2nd damaged fridge freezer to a store and got a refund. So, we will continue to search for an integrated fridge freezer!

I'm hoping by the next update I would have at least started, if not finished the tiling in the kitchen!