I know that the updates to the blog have been few and far between, but we have been very busy lately, working 7 days a week some times.
We have been fitting our new kitchen and, as you can imagine, life without a kitchen is pretty tricky, hence all the unpaid overtime.
Anyway, before we could start, we had to redecorate the old living room and move the table and dresser out of the kitchen, to turn it into a breakfast room.
This only took us a couple of days, as opposed to the 9 months it took to build the living room.
Now it was the turn of the kitchen.
First we ripped out the sink and worktops and stripped all the old tiles off the walls.
This left us with an emergency kitchen like this, no worktop and no sink.
Now I had to re-arrange all of the electrics to fit the new kitchen units. This meant cutting lots of holes in the walls, and running cables all over the place. We had an added complication when I checked out Tina's new cooker, and found that it was so powerful that it would blow the cable for the existing cooker socket, so I had to run a thick 6mm cable through the back of the house to the new consumer unit I put in last year.
We built a stud wall under the stairs, where the cooker used to be, to turn it into a larder, and then came the fun job of filling in all of the holes that I had just cut for the wiring, and plastering the walls where the tiles used to be. (step one, skim the walls , step two sand them down again, step three try another skim ......)
Finally, Tina was able to paint the wall, and we were ready to start fitting the kitchen.
