General : New Kitchen–week 2

After week one, we were keen to see something going back into the kitchen to get an idea what it would look like.  

The second week saw me with two days holiday so we could get out the way of all the banging and dust.   The fitter turned up on time and after we got him a cup of tea we went off to Brighton for the day.  The fitter was having a bit of a rest as well as he said he needed to leave at lunchtime

Tuesday we had a shopping day planned in Basingstoke so we (Lynn more than me) were a bit peeved that despite ringing at 9:25am to say he’d be half hour, the fitter didn’t turn up until 11am !   We had a good trip out, walked round all the shops, had a nice Pizza Hut buffet lunch (absolutely stuffed my face with pizza and pasta!) then waddled around a few more shops and signed up to my new mobile phone   The kitchen wasn’t looking much more than a building site still

Wednesday the fitter was working hard all day and we can start to see the shape of the kitchen emerging.  I was working from home all day and did get a little disturbed by the banging and sawing but not too bad.

Thursday saw a lot of progress and the cooker went in, so starting to get exciting!

Friday we had the Electricians back in the morning, followed by the fitter who worked until 7pm so was doing sterling work and got the sink in place as well now.  The exciting news is that the Cooker, Sink and even the Washing Machine are all ready now…. although we’ll probably only be using the washing machine over this weekend!!

Despite best efforts, the fitter is back Saturday to finish off…. although he turned up at 9:30am and didn’t leave until 6pm, so a long day of finishing off for him !   The result is for us to have a kitchen that looks like a kitchen now  

We also have the dishwasher ready for use now, so we can start getting back to normal now… although despite being told we can fill the draws and cupboards, we’re going to leave it until the kitchen is finished.   We’re kind of used to having our lives disrupted so not really worried by filling the kettle up from outside or the dust, but are glad things are coming together on schedule still and are looking forward to getting back to normal properly, which will hopefully be this time next week.