Home DIY

Kitchen cabinets are a piece of piss to install, as long as you take your time lining everything up. So are most kitchen appliances (except for Gas hobs - you need a professional for that).
Everything is basically standard sizes and fitments.
Save the money for good flooring, a nice worktop and decent handles. 90% of the perceived quality is the finish.

Kitchen cabinets are a piece of piss to install

This is @ChainBreaker we are talking about ;)

Buy an Ikea kitchen. Piece of piss to install....

Happy to help out if you need.

Tempted to get an ikea countertop to replace my worn out one. The only part I am concerned about in terms of installing is the L-shaped section and how to cut and join the two pieces together. Any pointers?

The professional way to do it is with a 1/2" router blade guided by a worktop jig with a couple of connecting bolts routed into the underside of the worktop. It depends if you have exactly a right angle and how long the two pieces are as to how easy it is.

If you've got a lot of time on your hands and you don't mind it not being perfect, you can cut it with a jigsaw.

http://www.screwfix.com/p/trend-616mm-worktop-jig/11267?kpid=11267&cm_mmc=Google-_-Product%20Listing%20Ads-_-Sales%20Tracking-_-sales%20tracking%20url&gclid=Cj0KEQjwhbzABRDHw_i4q6fXoLIBEiQANZKGW1QJE6duZ1OQn--ZchoYw6J82Sv8WOKAEPMMd-q07GEaAhMV8P8HAQ
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http://www.screwfix.com/p/makita-m3601-900w-8mm-router-240v/3179R?kpid=3179R&cm_mmc=Google-_-Product%20Listing%20Ads-_-Sales%20Tracking-_-sales%20tracking%20url&gclid=Cj0KEQjwhbzABRDHw_i4q6fXoLIBEiQANZKGW30nSqcn817UBKvo0TbAxP75v0Mnm8EY2npB60UGyoQaAjw38P8HAQ

http://www.screwfix.com/p/trend-616mm-worktop-jig/11267

http://www.screwfix.com/p/makita-m3601-900w-8mm-router-240v/3179r

Cheers for the links.

For comparisons sake any idea how much a tradesman charge for installation? We're talking 3 sections about 160cm each.

What could go wrong!

LOL

http://community.screwfix.com/threads/cost-of-fitting-cutting-kitchen-worktops.101786/

It's really not that hard. I did this install (in a shed so not massively level walls / floor) in about 8 hours from first box opened to last handle put on. Just two people....

Get Ikea. Same or better quality, less than half the price. Use the Howden's design/layout if you like it.

I can help too.

I guess it's easy if you have people to help, no way would I trust myself to do it on my own.
"It's a design feature. The milk pours out of the fridge itself"

There's the cracked sink. The plan is to patch it up in the short term and replace it in a couple of weeks when he gets paid.

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When you get the new one, try keeping it clean you filthy bastards. That one looks like something from the young ones.

I know, it's fucked. I'm away with work for a few weeks at a time, every time I get home the bathroom is disgusting. Does my head in! You should see the shower....

Awesome!

How did he manage that? Shaving with an axe and lost his grip?

Got a kitchen extract question.
Windowless box kitchen 5m from external wall.
Has a 150 x50mm box section from fake ceiling in kitchen down a fake wall then under anothee room to the outside. About 7.5m of duct in total.
Original fitted extractor couldn't cope, so bought a big mixed flow job.
Question is mounting it, there is space for it to sit vertically above the ceiling by means plasterboard it back in. So not really serviceable, other option is to fit two 90 degree bends and have it intersecting the downward box section on the wall, but means it will sit in a valuable kitchen cupboard, could be noisier and also less efficient as there is now two extra 90 degree bends in a box section which is really not good for flow.

Should I just plaster it in?

Dropped a full glass on it I think.

Sink update. Came home to this. I'm no plumber but I don't reckon that's how that's meant to look.

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that'll buff out

Looking for a tiler to do some work in my kitchen, floors and backsplash round the worktops. Any forum tilers or does anyone have recommendations of who to use?