My new kitchen

nick.lidgett · 18 Sep 2013 at 09:40

Short story,

About 6 years ago me and the mrs bought a 2 up 2 down in Blackpool, as a fixer upper.
In those 6 years ive had a new roof, all the pointing has been done, new facias and soffets, all the paint work outside has been
refreshed and i should have the bathroom and the back bedroom finished off by sunday.
I thought it was a good time to get cracking with the kitchen as i have been putting it off, for quite some time.

Here are the plans.....

High gloss white cabinets and black sparkly work top

I was too embarrassed to post pictures of the old kitchen (it was that bad)
So the pictures start after ive stripped it bare and knocked a wall down.

In the last picture you can see where there wall was that i knocked down.

Next up was the ceiling

The guys on here that know what they are doing will notice that
i got a bit excited with the filler, well it took me 2 hours to scrape it
back but it turned out ok in the end.

The plasterers finished yesterday so her are the pics of their work.

Very nice, just waiting for it to dry and i can start painting :mad:

i hate painting.

Got the flooring coming on monday, so there wont be any updates
until monday PM

James · 18 Sep 2013 at 10:22

Looking good, can't wait to see your next lot of pics!
Is that the style of kitchen you're having fitted gloss white?

nick.lidgett · 18 Sep 2013 at 10:27

Yeah, it looks great imo but more importantly its so easy to keep clean, any little spec of dirt will show right up.
I didn't want the black sparkle worktops but I didn't have much of a choice, that was all down to the wife.

wazza300 · 18 Sep 2013 at 11:25

are you doing the whole lot yourself? ever fitted kitchens before?

just been quoted £1660 to have one fitted which I think is way too much for a small kitchen

only things that are putting me off is the mitering of the worktops and fitting the sink/taps

nick.lidgett · 18 Sep 2013 at 12:55

wazza300 said:
are you doing the whole lot yourself? ever fitted kitchens before?

just been quoted £1660 to have one fitted which I think is way too much for a small kitchen

only things that are putting me off is the mitering of the worktops and fitting the sink/taps

Certain jobs I wont be doing myself, like the plastering, its a skill and needs to be done right.
I also wont be fitting the kitchen, im paying a guy £1200 to do it, in this price it includes building from flat pack, fitting all the units and work tops, 2 interior doors and all the skirting and architraves and all the other bits and bobs.
I will be doing the floor, decorating and electrics, ill also tile and fit the cooker hood too.

DiCe! · 18 Sep 2013 at 13:41

I love the look of a freshly plastered room....does that make me odd?

Shaz]sigh[ · 18 Sep 2013 at 13:55

I love your existing doors (Edwardian?). My house used to have those but they were taken out at some stage. You can see where the rim locks where in some of the older architraving. I did contemplate purchasing some and refitting them.

Ho hum.

nick.lidgett · 18 Sep 2013 at 16:38

DiCe! said:
I love the look of a freshly plastered room....does that make me odd?

I dont think so, i think im odd because not only do i love the look of fresh plaster, i cant stop walking in there to stroke the walls hahahaha

Shaz]sigh[;24964854 said:
I love your existing doors (Edwardian?). My house used to have those but they were taken out at some stage. You can see where the rim locks where in some of the older architraving. I did contemplate purchasing some and refitting them.

Ho hum.

It was a tough decision not to keep them, we wanted to keep some character of the house, in the end we settled to keep the accrington red brick on the outside and open up the fireplaces in the front room and master bedroom.

Wh00pS · 19 Sep 2013 at 11:35

wazza300 said:
are you doing the whole lot yourself? ever fitted kitchens before?

just been quoted £1660 to have one fitted which I think is way too much for a small kitchen

only things that are putting me off is the mitering of the worktops and fitting the sink/taps

You could fit most of it yourself, tbh most of fitting a kitchen is just common sense.
Just pay someone to come and mitre the worktops and cut out the sink for you, would prolly cost you about £200 - £300 depending on the amount of cuts.
Don't attempt the mitres yourself unless your used to working with a router and jig, the price of one botched cut (replacement top) can be more than the actual price of paying someone to do it.
I've been fitting kitchens and bathrooms for almost 30 years and i've been to a hell of a lot of jobs to repair buggered mitres.

Shaz]sigh[ · 19 Sep 2013 at 14:10

Wh00pS said:
You could fit most of it yourself, tbh most of fitting a kitchen is just common sense.
Just pay someone to come and mitre the worktops and cut out the sink for you, would prolly cost you about £200 - £300 depending on the amount of cuts.
Don't attempt the mitres yourself unless your used to working with a router and jig, the price of one botched cut (replacement top) can be more than the actual price of paying someone to do it.
I've been fitting kitchens and bathrooms for almost 30 years and i've been to a hell of a lot of jobs to repair buggered mitres.

I'm fitting my kitchen but I'm having quartz tops templated so my theory is that any difficult cuts will be reduced significantly.

Still not looking forward to scribing the filler panels against the wall though or the plinths... but might pay a joiner for that

wazza300 · 19 Sep 2013 at 18:50

Wh00pS said:
You could fit most of it yourself, tbh most of fitting a kitchen is just common sense.
Just pay someone to come and mitre the worktops and cut out the sink for you, would prolly cost you about £200 - £300 depending on the amount of cuts.
Don't attempt the mitres yourself unless your used to working with a router and jig, the price of one botched cut (replacement top) can be more than the actual price of paying someone to do it.
I've been fitting kitchens and bathrooms for almost 30 years and i've been to a hell of a lot of jobs to repair buggered mitres.

yeah true,id thought of that already

trouble is there's a gas pipe that needs moving flat to the wall so not to interfere with the back panel of one of the carcass's,and I need two double gang sockets put in

amazingly he dropped the price to £1300 if I paid cash but still too high for me,plus no way on earth im paying cash upfront,only on completion

your not in or around bham by anychance? haha,half the fitters cba to turn up for a quote

Shaz]sigh[ · 19 Sep 2013 at 19:20

Would it not be easier (read cheaper) to take a small cut out of the cab than to move a gas pipe?

wazza300 · 19 Sep 2013 at 19:25

Shaz]sigh[;24972305 said:
Would it not be easier (read cheaper) to take a small cut out of the cab than to move a gas pipe?

yeah but it would come infront of the back panel

theres room behind it for pipework but it sticks out past that

nick.lidgett · 22 Sep 2013 at 12:20

Update: yesterday i bought a core bit for my drill and put the hole through the wall for the tumble dryer vent, put two coats of paint on the ceiling and 2 on the walls mounted the radiator on the wall and plumbed it in.
Tomorrow morning the floor is being delivered, so today ill be laying some ply on the floor ready to take the vinyl my wife chose, i believe its a natural stone tile effect lino.

On friday i stripped the spare room bare and redecorated it so my pc is packed away at the moment, im going to treat myself to a new desk today so when its all plugged back in ill get some pictures up.

Its really hard to get the colour to show up properly using the cam on my s3 but its a light mint green (i think) i cant tell im useless at describing shade of individual colours.

nick.lidgett · 3 Oct 2013 at 12:25

Right so its been a while since my last update, work, GTA V and the wife all got in the way.
Firstly I finished ply boarding the floor last night, I was ment to have done it ages ago but hey ho, the vinyl floor guys are at the house as I type (from work) so when I get back it should all be laid.
Secondy the kitchen is being delivered on Saturday 5th October so update should be coming in a bit more frequently now.

Here are the latest set of pictures;

Tonight if I can stop messing around with my new 7970 ill be fitting the lights and switches and sockets.
We are having brushed stainless steel effect switches and sockets, but to save a few quid im fitting white plastic ones where you can see, like behind the tumble dryer and oven etc etc.

danny77 · 4 Oct 2013 at 21:18

Why on earth would you fill and sand the ceiling if it was getting skimmed ?

nick.lidgett · 5 Oct 2013 at 18:05

Because at the time i wasnt going to have it skimmed but i made such a bad job of it, i had no choice lol

Shaz]sigh[ · 7 Oct 2013 at 09:26

nick.lidgett said:
Update: yesterday i bought a core bit for my drill and put the hole through the wall for the tumble dryer vent, put two coats of paint on the ceiling and 2 on the walls mounted the radiator on the wall and plumbed it in.

Did you go through accrington brick with the core bit?

If so - what bit did you use and what type of drill? Contemplating doing this myself but would be with an SDS drill (with clutch) and a 152mm bit) and a bit wary I'll be stood there 2 hours later.

nick.lidgett · 8 Oct 2013 at 13:20

Shaz]sigh[;25069963 said:
Did you go through accrington brick with the core bit?

If so - what bit did you use and what type of drill? Contemplating doing this myself but would be with an SDS drill (with clutch) and a 152mm bit) and a bit wary I'll be stood there 2 hours later.

May i just start off buy saying it was an absolute **** to drill though, it did take over an hour to drill through both sides, i used my makita drill, its at home so cant get you the model number right now but its the one that plugs into the 110v yellow box and has the proper hammer function too.
Also i dont think the drill will ever be the same again, i got it last xmas and this is only the third or fourth time i used it.....

I used the core drill attatchment from screwfix they also sell the vent covers, ill post the link up later as my phone battery is about to die.

Nightglow · 8 Oct 2013 at 14:18

Shaz]sigh[;25069963 said:
Did you go through accrington brick with the core bit?

If so - what bit did you use and what type of drill? Contemplating doing this myself but would be with an SDS drill (with clutch) and a 152mm bit) and a bit wary I'll be stood there 2 hours later.

You don't say what sds drill you have, you will need a good drill to get through those bricks.

I have a rather big 4kg sds Bosch drill & even that struggles with those Accrington bricks..
Better to hire a more powerful sds for the day.