This weekend I have fitted the second kitchen this month! The first at our home in our kitchen orangery extension, and the second in one of our other properties that we are getting ready for sale. We were looking for a higher end ‘off the shelf’ kitchen for this property, clean, stylish and functional. We …
Category Archive: Joinery
Feb
28
Orangery Extension Part 31: Fitting The Kitchen
We have spent the last two weekends fitting the kitchen in our kitchen orangery extension. We had a group of family and friends round last weekend to help get the first coats of paint on the walls and ceiling, get the sockets cut out of the plasterboard and the back boxes fitted. I spent about …
Feb
14
Happy Valentines… We Have A Kitchen
I hinted in the last update post that there may be some exciting news just ready for valentines day, well the kitchen was delivered today. All in all it has been a rather stressful day. At the beginning of the day we faced ripping out work that had already been completed in order that building …
Feb
01
Underfloor Heating Install Finished
We managed to get the under floor heating finished this weekend and the floor laid. A really good job, and fairly straight forward to do if not a little fiddly. The main process was one of planning what we wanted under the floors, in terms of electrics, media cables, water supplies and drainage from the …
Dec
16
Orangery Extension Part 19: Plasterboarding Continued, And New Window
The progress on the Kitchen Orangery Extension has been rather slow over the last couple of weeks since the first fix electrics. I have managed to get as much of the plaster boarding done as I can, I still have one exterior wall to do which will be done with Kingspan, but this has been …
Nov
22
Orangery Extension Part 17: First Fix Electrics Finished And Ready For Plaster Boarding
The first fix electrics in the Orangery Kitchen Extension has now been finished, it was a bigger job than we first thought mainly due to the number of lighting zones, switches and the basic configuration of the Orangery roof which means that to get anywhere you have to go all the way round the edge, …
Nov
09
Orangery Extension Part 15: Floor Laid
Conservatec have been back today to finish off the rest of the outstanding parts of their work. They re-did some of the fiberglass as there was a small leak and covered the roof with its final cover, finished off the fascia and guttering and sealed the doors. Frustratingly they still have some finishing off tomorrow… …














