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layout: ../../layouts/LayoutMdx.astro
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title: 2022 Autumn Works 1
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date: 2022-09-15
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image: year2022-w1/utility-progress.jpg
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dir: year2022-w1
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image: utility-progress
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description: we get the people back
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---
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export const s = (s) => `year2022-w1/${s}`;
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import { generateImageHyrdationFunction } from "../../utils";
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export const s = generateImageHyrdationFunction("year2022-w1");
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import Cards from "../../components/Cards.astro";
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import Callout from "../../components/Callout.astro";
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@@ -23,7 +26,7 @@ As we hinted last time, we have been beavering away on our own project: reinstat
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Cast your mind back, to the days of yore, when ceilings were fluffy and mould ran amok.
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<Solocard title="What it was like pre-moving in" src={s("utility-original.jpg")} />
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<Solocard title="What it was like pre-moving in" src={s("utility-original")} />
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We already had a layout in mind, and as we were going to install everything ourselves, we went with an IKEA kitchen - the instructions are always very good and there are lots of resources online for others doing the same sort of thing.
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First off - extra storage. Another 8 of the parcels were boxes for these shelves. Very useful! We will have to come up with more wacky drawer combinations, like our coffee-and-cheesegrater drawer, or the cat-food-and-sewing-machine cupboard. The shelving unit fitted in with only a few millimetres to spare. Optimal!!
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<Solocard title="🥳 More Storaaaage 🥳" src={s("utility-storage.jpg")} />
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<Solocard title="🥳 More Storaaaage 🥳" src={s("utility-storage")} />
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Next we started tackling the sink side. The much more exciting side!
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One of the things to note about using IKEA kitchens is that they are notorious for having no service void at the back. This posed a problem for us as there are copper pipes running the length of the room. We got around it by installing our own service void with battening. We'll have a slightly deeper worktop as a result, but given we're already going to extend the worktop over the windowsill, it won't be much extra.
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When we'd measured the wall-to-wall width, it was approx 2m70 - easily enough room for 2 x 40cm drawer units, a 60cm sink unit and 2 x 60cm machines. BUT WAIT, we needed room for cover boards to make the sides of the machines look nicer. Each of these adds another 1.5cm width. BUT WAIT, the machines need extra to get them in and out of their holes. BUT WAIT, the walls have sticky-outy bits that eat into the room width. Getting the cabinets to fit around the wide variety of obstacles was pretty difficult: shutoff taps, gas pipes, wonky walls, dodgy tiling jobs... We made good use of our router and jigsaw.
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When we'd measured the wall-to-wall width, it was approx 2m70 - easily enough room for 2 x 40cm drawer units, a 60cm sink unit and 2 x 60cm machines. BUT WAIT, we needed room for cover boards to make the sides of the machines look nicer. Each of these adds another 1.5cm width. BUT WAIT, the machines need extra to get them in and out of their holes. BUT WAIT, the walls have sticky-outy bits that eat into the room width. Getting the cabinets to fit around the wide variety of obstacles was pretty difficult: shutoff taps, gas pipes, wonky walls, dodgy tiling jobs... We made good use of our router and jigsaw.
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<Cards images={[
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{title: "Channelling", src: s("utility-channelling.jpg")},
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{title: "Fitting", src: s("utility-fitting.jpg")},
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{title: "Cutouts for everything", src: s("utility-tap-access.jpg")},
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]} />
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<Cards
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images={[
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{ title: "Channelling", src: s("utility-channelling") },
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{ title: "Fitting", src: s("utility-fitting") },
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{ title: "Cutouts for everything", src: s("utility-tap-access") },
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]}
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/>
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We really pushed our luck with fitting as much as we could sideways on both sides of the room. It somehow turned out fine, living on the wild side ;)
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The sink cabinet needed extra adjustments. We still had the old butler sink - but on closer inspection it was a non-standard slightly-too-big size, needed a lot of cleaning and restoring and was mega heavy. In the end we decided it wasn't worth the effort. We ordered a new very similar, but lighter, sink and then got to work on the cabinet. IKEA don't expect you to use a sink that they haven't sold you, so this is where we really made use of the online resources. Big cut-outs on the sides, wood platform to sit the sink on, drill a hole for the waste, drill holes at the back for the pipes. (new tool! 🎉🎉🎉). Is it really yours if you don't drill holes in it?
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<Cards images={[
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{title: "Cut-outs", src: s("utility-cutout.jpg")},
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{title: "Wood platform and waste hole", src: s("utility-wastecut.jpg")},
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{title: "Pipe holes, new tool!! 🎉🎉🎉", src: s("holesaw.gif")},
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{title: "Installing the pipes", src: s("utility-pipes.jpg")},
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]} />
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<Cards
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images={[
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{ title: "Cut-outs", src: s("utility-cutout") },
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{ title: "Wood platform and waste hole", src: s("utility-wastecut") },
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{ title: "Pipe holes, new tool!! 🎉🎉🎉", src: s("holesaw", "gif") },
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{ title: "Installing the pipes", src: s("utility-pipes") },
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]}
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/>
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Next was a lot of painting. Ozzy hates painting as we have all heard, so Nikki did it all. Painting the cabinets may have been a mistake - the finish isn't strong enough and the paint scratches easily. Looks nice though. Painty painty paint.
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<Solocard title="Painty painty" src={s("utility-painty.jpg")} />
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<Solocard title="Painty painty" src={s("utility-painty")} />
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We installed the water supply pipes and the sink, sink waste and a 3-armed trap for also draining the washing machine and tumble dryer. The sink and machines are now operational again! We've also ordered the worktop but this isn't likely to arrive until the end of the month.
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There's still a good few things to do but we're really really pleased with how it's going so far.
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<Solocard title="Current progress" src={s("utility-progress.jpg")} />
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<Solocard title="Current progress" src={s("utility-progress")} />
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## Builders Part II - Scraping Boogaloo
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_\*That counts as ok when you're not the person doing it_
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<Solocard title="Stone!" src={s("dining-stone.jpg")} />
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<Solocard title="Stone!" src={s("dining-stone")} />
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A quick win was to chisel the window edges so that it could be crowbarred open (what is it with windows and crowbars?) Success!! We'll need to get this window properly restored at some point as one of the panes contains one of those horrible vent windmill things - might get that glazier in as part of these works.
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The hallway's version of the 'what's underneath all this lino' mystery has also been solved - it's proper floorboards which we can sand and stain to match the kitchen (fingers crossed!!)
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<Cards images={[
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{title: "🎵 look at the floor, see how there's floorboards too 🎵", src: s("hallway-floorboard.jpg")},
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{title: "🎵 and it was all yellow 🎵", src: s("hallway-yellow.jpg")},
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]} />
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<Cards
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images={[
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{
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title: "🎵 look at the floor, see how there's floorboards too 🎵",
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src: s("hallway-floorboard"),
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},
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{ title: "🎵 and it was all yellow 🎵", src: s("hallway-yellow") },
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]}
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/>
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It's always really lovely to uncover some of the human history of the house. Sam & Bill, I hope you're still happy out there!
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<Solocard title="Yay for Sam & Bill" src={s("hallway-graffiti.jpg")} />
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<Solocard title="Yay for Sam & Bill" src={s("hallway-graffiti")} />
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We expect them to start work on the upstairs bathroom in another week or so.
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<Cards images={[
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{title: "Getting the floorboards up (crowbar seeing a lot of use)", src: s("floorboards-up.jpg")},
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{title: "Happy wifi", src: s("happy-wifi.jpg")},
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{title: "Laser levelling", src: s("laserlevelling.gif")},
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]} />
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{title: "Getting the floorboards up (crowbar seeing a lot of use)", src: s("floorboards-up")},
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{title: "Happy wifi", src: s("happy-wifi")},
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{title: "Laser levelling", src: s("laserlevelling","gif")},
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]} />
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## Gutters
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<Cards images={[
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{title: "Guttersweeps", src: s("guttersweep.jpg")},
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{title: "Gutters in action", src: s("guttersweeping.jpg")},
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{title: "Previous attempt", src: s("gutterPreviousAttempt.jpg")},
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{title: "Our solution", src: s("gutterSolution.png")},
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]} />
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{title: "Guttersweeps", src: s("guttersweep")},
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{title: "Gutters in action", src: s("guttersweeping")},
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{title: "Previous attempt", src: s("gutterPreviousAttempt")},
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{title: "Our solution", src: s("gutterSolution","png")},
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]} />
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## Cat cat cat
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