Kitchen diner and utility room renovation

Hi,

Can I ask what make your integrated fridge and freezer are? Are they two separate units or a combined one? We are literally also buying a full height integrated version of each and would be interest to know.

Cheers
 
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Looking very nice, liking the design and colouring.

Could you not get a bigger island in? I'm just a big fan of a decent island with an induction hob on, and hate people who only put a sink on the island. Cooking = sociable, washing up = hide it away.

Can't see how many sockets you have, need to look at pics more. Definitely ensure you have enough, we're always full up in ours, I might even install another pullup one. Might be more difficult with silestone drilling as it's easy with granite?

UFH is a great choice and helps soo much, would love to build a house with it throughout and never have horrible rads again.

£30k is a lot though, although you do have some nice appliances and new windows.

Looking forward to more updates :)
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The island size was limited by proximity to the main run of units and the kitchen door. It will actually be 10cm deeper than the design as the Silestone guy said we could get away with a larger 'breakfast bar'.

The island will be for eating and preparing food.

We should be OK with the number of sockets, we've got two on the island too. None of them are popup jobs, we never enquired about these so I'm not sure how hard it is to have them with Silestone. Should be perfectly possible though.

The ufh is just elec so more for underfoot comfort than room-heating capability. There'll still be a rad...we wanted wet underfloor but it would have added to the height of the floor too much relative to the hall.

Oh £30k is an absolute roasting, everyone's had their piece of the pie from the builder to the joiner, the spark, the plasterer, the fitter, the window fitter, the window company, the kitchen company itself (big showroom to pay for), the worktop company, the brickie, the plumber, the labourer, the tiler, the tile company (these were £1.7k alone), the skip company, etc. etc.

We're going to enjoy it though then hopefully make the most of any value it adds to the house when we come to sell.

mark66 said:
Hi,

Can I ask what make your integrated fridge and freezer are? Are they two separate units or a combined one? We are literally also buying a full height integrated version of each and would be interest to know.

Cheers
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Yes as Ad says the fridge and freezer are both Neff and they're individual units. Model numbers are KI1813F30G and G4655X7GB respectively.
 
Bloody tiler hasn't turned up, citing domestic problems :mad:. Now expecting to start Monday, giving him three days to screed, lay ufh, and tile in time for everything to set by the time the island and Silestone are fitted on Thursday. Bloody tradesmen!
 
Depends on the screed, it will dry overnight if heating is on and its warm (quick drying can take about 4 hours in ideal conditions).

We'll be doing similar work at some point but I think I'll do a lot of it myself to reduce costs (except tiling, I hate tiling)
 
Lol, probably. Although he did say that the upshot is that he's now living on his own in a different town, so I'm tempted to believe his story at least, if not his reason for not turning up!

Simon said:
Surely the screed won't be dry quick enough?

How come you went for triple glazing ?
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Apparently he's not going to screed as the floor will be too high. He's going to lay 3mm thick cables embedded in a mat, glue the mat to the insulation board, then tile directly onto the matt with flexible tile adhesive.

Triple glazing at the front of the house is for noise reasons primarily, as our house is fairly near a main road. I suppose there's also some energy efficiency benefits.
 
Good call on the pyrolitic ovens. We've got a couple of extra wide Smeg ovens and I love the pyro function. Take everthing out of the oven, whack the pyro setting on and come back a while later to wipe out the ash in the bottom of the oven which is then left loverly and clean.

The smell isn't all that nice when the pyro function is on but I'd rather have that than have to clean the ovens.
 
Looking great, love the colour combo if the units, was looking to do almost the same but changed to a dual tone gloss in the end.

The wife and I are just getting the end of our kitchen install (worktops being fitted as I type this) so can appreciate what a big project you have going on there.

Bet you can't wait for it to be finished now.
 
I absolutely cannot wait, it's been a massive pain in the bottom, made worse with having two kids. #firstworldproblems.

This weekend has mostly been spent decorating...not enjoying the weather, decorating!

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^ Well I never.

Spark back in for second fix part one today.

Ovens and cab lights now working:

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Sexual!

It's the tiler's third attempt to show up tomorrow, let's hope the quality of his work matches the quality of his hangovers.
 
Today the island was fitted along with the Silestone worktops, splash back, sill, and upstands. Not visible in the photo really, but there are metal flecks in the worktop that reflect light and add a really nice bit of bling.

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(I have never had stacked integrated ovens) but is there any dilemma with respect to height of these since for upper oven at near eye level may be difficult to see the top surface of something being grilled (grease spitting ?); or for a heavy casserole (or xmas turkey!) could be more dangerous lifting it out (especially for a women) at near shoulder level ?
 
Hi there,

We are also just about to have a new kitchen installed and have a couple of questions:

1, How thick are your worktops? Did you have any issues with what I assume is a induction hob invading the drawer space below?

2, What type of under cabinet lights are they? Circular LED? Do you like them?

Cheers
 
jpaul said:
(I have never had stacked integrated ovens) but is there any dilemma with respect to height of these since for upper oven at near eye level may be difficult to see the top surface of something being grilled (grease spitting ?); or for a heavy casserole (or xmas turkey!) could be more dangerous lifting it out (especially for a women) at near shoulder level ?
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I don't know the answer to this, but we're both reasonably tall and strong so I don't foresee a problem. This was a dilemma during design phase though, as we wanted to retain worktop surface area which meant not having ovens next to each other, and we also wanted to maximise oven space but also have an integrated microwave, so we went for the Siemens as they'd just brought out a full single oven with microwave and pyrolytic functionality.

mark66 said:
Hi there,

We are also just about to have a new kitchen installed and have a couple of questions:

1, How thick are your worktops? Did you have any issues with what I assume is a induction hob invading the drawer space below?

2, What type of under cabinet lights are they? Circular LED? Do you like them?

Cheers
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1. They're 30mm thick, which was the maximum thickness of quartz available from our supplier. The hob is very thin and doesn't impede the drawer space below. I'll take a pic tomorrow.

2. They're cuboidal under cab LEDs in warm white. Again, will take a pic tomorrow. I like them, I think they look pretty cool and modern and are a welcome change from circular ones.

Just found out the dishwasher projects the programme and time remaining onto the floor! :eek:

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