Kitchen Progress - Kitchen Units - Day Three of installation

DAY THREE OF KITCHEN FITTING:

The doors have been fitted to most of the units.

Units have been leveled, mechanisms tested and final checks have been done in preparation for the arrival of the Quartz worktop next week!!

Metal brackets have been added to the back of the island units.

This is to create more support for the worktop because we are having an overhang where there is no units underneath to support the worktop.

We were advised by our quartz supplier to add these as a precaution because we have a weak point and the quartz could potentially crack.

There is only 3-4cm of quartz between the hob cut out and the edge of the back of the unit, therefore the overhang needed more support.

The electricians were back in all day on Saturday, they have connected most of the appliances and the safety switches are easily accessible within one of the empty units - as below.

Our builder has re-plastered the wall and re-painted after the light switches had to be re-positioned due to being too high.

The left hand side wall has been painted.

We choose a very soft light grey which looks lovely, it works perfectly with the white units.

Wall Paint Colour:

Crown 'Soft Steel' for Kitchens & Bathrooms

Looking forward to the worktop being delivered... We are nearly finished!!

Kitchen Progress - Kitchen Units - Day One & Two of installation

We're on the home stretch...the kitchen units have been delivered & installed!! 

This week the kitchen fitters have been in for 3 days.

DAY ONE OF KITCHEN FITTING:

Kitchen carcasses have been fitted 

You can see in the above photo, that the units are sitting on wooden planks.

The reason for this is that we wanted taller than standard height units.

The standard height for kitchen units are 900mm:

150mm plinth

720mm units

30mm worktop

We chose to increase the height of our plinths to 200mm which meant the units had to be raised on the planks to accommodate the new height.

Our heights for the kitchen units are 950mm:

200mm plinth

720mm units

30mm worktop

The newly fitted boiler is located in the end tall larder.

  DAY TWO OF KITCHEN FITTING: 

Appliances & internal mechanisms have been fitted 

Seimens Oven

Seimens Microwave Combination oven

Neff Induction Hob

300mm Wine Cooler

70 / 30 Fridge Freezer

Central Island with Induction Hob 

'Lamons' Kidney shaped pull out corner shelves

  

In between Day Two & Day Three of kitchen fitting the Electricians have been in & positioned the down lights.

They have connected the cables and put them onto different circuits.

We realised we had a problem with the positioning of the light switches when the wall units were installed.

They were too high & sat too close to the bottom of the wall units.

As we're having a splash back, the cut outs for the plugs were just too close to the edge which would be weak points and possibly crack.

Therefore the electricians had to move them down, as you can see in the below photos.

The walls will now need to be re-plastered to clean up the mess.