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Absolute noob question here: We are going to have tiled walls in our new kitchen (when we eventually get round to it). Do we tile the kitchen first, top to bottom, then fit cabinets (drilling through the tiles) or do I fit cabinets first, then tile round them?

Cabinets first and then tile otherwise you’re paying for tiles you’ll never see/benefit from!

Could go for drawer fridge/freezer if you have a separate F/F in the garage. That way you have the bits you need to hand but doesn’t have to be huge. Also drawers are far more practical than cupboards as you don’t end up with tins of anchovies from 2003

That was my first thought, but here (in Spain) there is a bit of a problem with creepy crawlies, and I think the tiles keep out the cockroaches. In my kitchen it looks like they've installed the high units, then tiled the wall around them, then installed the counter units, and I thought that looked weird.

Glad I spent so much time and energy on the garden this summer before starting work on the house.

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Ha! Our garden is getting progressively more and more wrecked… What are you having done?

WW1 reenactment by the looks of it.

The brick bit to the left is a little kitchen jutting out of the house. It's cracked, leaky and badly insulated. So that's going, and there'll be a full-width extension to the same depth. Then there's loads of nonsense going on inside too. There'll be decking that runs as far as the far edge of that trench. I've only been here a year but had done lots of work on the garden. Hopefully it can all be put back once they've gone. I'm mainly just keeping eyes peeled to make sure the trees are safe.

Kind of similar to us. Small, useless, half width kitchen extension being made full width and adding a utility room/downstairs WC. Currently going through planning with the council.

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I like the trench extension behind your neighbour's lines.

There's a sewer pipe there and we share a manhole and connection that runs under fence (and would have run under new party wall). Took us months to get an agreement with him about what to do, including him demolishing his sort-of-temporary extension. Then we found out the pipe went another way, then did a camera survey, then found out the survey was shit, then dug exploratory holes and found out it was different again, then dug further and realised we'd need to get Thames Water approval... It's been a whole thing. Added lots of time, stress and money to what was going to be a relatively straightforward thing.

Looks very similar to our plan, except we're creating a sort of reading nook in one corner.

The "dining area" will be a sort of nook with bench seating. The "living area" will be mostly clear (chairs just there for the drawing for scale) but will be a kind of free form crafting type space. That wall covered with kallax/craft supplies.

Current dining room is a dark pit of despair. The double doors face east and are the only source of natural light, which is blocked by the current extension. You need the lights on in mid summer. Also, it doesn't feel very well connected to the kitchen so never really gets used and as a result, fills up with crap.

Anyone fitted a cooker hood recently . I have this socket to work with and looking around not sure what will fit it . Many of the ones I am seeing lie flat against wall and not clear if they will foul on the socket.

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Cooker top to plug is 108cm and the first coating mounting points are 58cm so double bonus if I can find something to spot straight on..

what do you mean by drawer f/f? not sure im following

one of the reasons im accelerating this is the garage f/f is causing problems when its really cold it keeps shutting off and we get partial defrosting, apparently most F/F are designed for room temperature usage not.. outside..

Yes. If you want a freezer in a garage you need one specifically designed for it. We have one, they aren't particularly expensive.

yeah that was a mistake on our part..

Do you mind sharing the ballpark figure for the work?

I told my architect (an old friend of mine) that we have a budget of £100k, and he has yet to baulk. Will need to see what comes back from tenders.

https://www.fisherpaykel.com/uk/cooling/refrigeration/integrated-refrigeration/integrated-cooldrawer-multi-temperature-drawer-rb9064s1-26091.html

Like this

I did and I'd say it depends on the height of the main section of your hood. The plug might disappear into the extraction tube surround.

We just had a junction box hanging out the wall on ours so was easy to move out the way. You could always do that and remove the socket bit (I am not a builder or electrician)

Thanks Fred , will do a bit more googling to look for the installation photos.. ideally that socket does not need moving..

Remove and use 3 pin inline connectors