Kitchen's Kitchen

The first hiccup... the radiator, despite being ordered a month ago apparently hasn't yet arrived at the shop who sold it to me. I took their guarantee of it being pre-Christmas with a grain of salt, but they basically fibbed and implied they had it in stock and in the shop and only when I asked about collection did it turn out that they didn't have it and needed to chase it down.

Other minor details being worked through:

• The floating shelves I ordered for a brick wall... the wall is stud, and so we need to carve out a huge panel and put a hard wood backing to it.
  
• The Hue light strips under counter have an annoying little white plastic box near the light strip itself. Normally they'd build this into the cabinet but I've been pretty firm on "everything needs to be maintainable" so we need to cut a little hole in the fascia panel that goes under the cabinets to make it accessible.
  
  

And my downstairs neighbours wisely decamped to the North of England early December. But lockdown now keeps them there, plus they knew I was doing this work and I'm sure they just wish to avoid the noise. So what's the catch? Well I'm putting a new hole in my wall and aside from debris falling into their garden we'd need to put the little grills over the extractor hole, etc. We are considering a ladder down from the kitchen window to the garden and then shift it across so we can get back up... oh well.