Spoke too Soon!

Look. Someone's mucking me about now & they'd better stop it, or else.

The ovens have arrived, we put them in the oven housing, which, as the name might imply, is a housing designed for an oven, & they don't bloody fit. We can get them in, but then they push the hobs out of the worktop. Grrrr!

OK. Deep breaths. Calm now.

Checked the install instructions. Again.

For the hobs, they read ' if installing above a built in oven, the minimum worktop thickness required is 30mm.' Measured worktop - it's 40mm. Ovens & hobs are both the same make, from the same range, so I assume they should fit when installed together. But they don't. The hobs are too bloody deep for the oven to fit. Now what do we do?

I'll let you know when we've worked it out. Bugger.

Nearly There

The end is in sight. At last.

Kitchen is looking great - pics to follow soon. Units are up, tilings done, hoods are hanging, sparks are flying. All we need is some cookers to cook with.

We've had the hobs delivered, a fantastic coffee machine, top of the range microwave/combi oven thing and a big fridge freezer. Which almost didn't fit up the stairs. Well, actually, it didn't fit, but where there's a will there's a way, and no way was it going back.

At least we didn't damage it. And if there were some minor 'adjustments' made to the building, well, we had builders on site so we could adjust it back afterwards. Don't think the fridge freezer will ever come out again though.

Still waiting for the ovens, but I've just made a call to the very helpful Anne-Marie, who assures me that delivery is on for tomorrow. Sometime between 8am & 6pm. Guess I know where I'll be then.

Anyway, assuming the ovens do arrive tomorrow, I can start really pushing to sell places on our courses. I've been a bit hesitant until now because I don't really like the idea of having to call people up & bump them to another date - just seems like poor service to me, but despite that we have sold a couple of places already. Good stuff.

So, all that's left to do is... everything else. Plus, find the money to pay for it all.