Gonna fit the kitchen worktop
then measure up for the splashback and sort out the drawings in Adobe Illustrator. There's a firm around the corner who will feed it into a CNC machine to cut what we want out of a sheet of aluminium composite. Excited but nervous as I'm a measure, cut, swear, cut again, measure again, throw it away and start from scratch kind of person.

Saturday we've got a ZipVan booked to get all our stuff back from storage so by the end of the weekend we ought to have a kitchen once more. I've missed the dishwasher...
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:33, archived)

big tings a'gwan chez garold - hope it all goes smoothly for you pal

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:36, archived)

It's getting there
we've done a lot of work ourselves so it's ... okay. The original walls in this place are 5cm thick and filled with kind of rolls of cardboard - the days before building regs when the tories were pushing cheap house building like mad. Anyway, we wanted a proper fire door between the kitchen and the living room so we added some studding, insulation and plasterboard, fitted a new door and frame (fucking palaver, the door sizes in this house aren't standard so had to widen the gap). We got it plastered at the same time as the extension, not gonna try THAT myself.

I put ceiling lights in the old part of the kitchen too. They look ace.

The floor we put down in the extension isn't perfect - the screed the builders laid isn't bang-on and we didn't have time to go to town with any self-levelling compound. I guess a few years down the line we could maybe pay someone to do a proper job but it's fine for now.

This is why I was miffed about the living room floor, we thought of maybe replacing it in a few years with something nice, if it gets replaced now with like-for-like it won't really be ideal. The money to cover the cost would be though...
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:43, archived)

maybe get a discount on the worktops rather than getting the floor fixed?

( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:45, archived)

It'll like be an insurance claim
they'll ask me to complete a form, forward it to their insurers who may send an adjuster out to assess the cost of repairing it. It's a big firm, they probably have this issue from time-to-time and just follow a procedure.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:47, archived)

The company delivering the worktops dropped a piece
making a big corner-shaped dent in the floor. It's gone straight through the very thin wood on the top so I can't see it being repairable and by rights they should replace the whole lot. I mean, it was £7 a square meter from B&Q and it's hard a hard time of its 8 year life but that dent is right by the front door and worse than any other damage that's its sustained. We were hoping to wring another 5 years out of it.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:37, archived)

no-one wants to be 'that customer' but if they've fucked your floor they should fix it
it probably happens all day long. Can't they just replace the damaged bit?
( Queef Smegwin U r a 🔔🔚, Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:41, archived)

It's click flooring
so... yes they could but they'd need to get the same type of flooring (good luck, it was on special in B&Q back in 2013 as end-of-line) and take it all up to replace the damaged piece.
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:45, archived)