Kitchen renovation: day one
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selenayLessons learned today:
1) A sledge-hammer is a very slow way to take up ceramic tiles.
2) Homebase rents out machines that take up ceramic tiles v. fast.
3) The original house builder felt no need to put dry wall behind the cabinets.
4) He did carefully put in dry wall around the vent for the range hood, where there should have been a cut-out.
5) The fridge runs perfectly fine if it is the only appliance plugged into our craft room.
6) The kettle is also fine.
7) Possibly so is the toaster oven.
8) Running the little two-ring stove-top (with only the fridge plugged in as well, on a different plug but in the same room) will blow the all plugs in the craft room aka our temporary kitchen.
9) After this happens, the trip switch on the circuit board will not un-trip.
10) An electrician will be required.
11) It's a good thing the contractor hadn't removed the stove yet today.
12) I don't cope well if I'm threatened with not having a coffee maker.
13) It's a good thing the contractor had left one cabinet under a plug in the kitchen. Coffee maker and kettle work fine in there.
14) When the plugs in the temporary kitchen blow, the fridge stops working.
15) Thank goodness for 100ft heavy duty extension cords.
16) It's going to be a very, very long few weeks.
1) A sledge-hammer is a very slow way to take up ceramic tiles.
2) Homebase rents out machines that take up ceramic tiles v. fast.
3) The original house builder felt no need to put dry wall behind the cabinets.
4) He did carefully put in dry wall around the vent for the range hood, where there should have been a cut-out.
5) The fridge runs perfectly fine if it is the only appliance plugged into our craft room.
6) The kettle is also fine.
7) Possibly so is the toaster oven.
8) Running the little two-ring stove-top (with only the fridge plugged in as well, on a different plug but in the same room) will blow the all plugs in the craft room aka our temporary kitchen.
9) After this happens, the trip switch on the circuit board will not un-trip.
10) An electrician will be required.
11) It's a good thing the contractor hadn't removed the stove yet today.
12) I don't cope well if I'm threatened with not having a coffee maker.
13) It's a good thing the contractor had left one cabinet under a plug in the kitchen. Coffee maker and kettle work fine in there.
14) When the plugs in the temporary kitchen blow, the fridge stops working.
15) Thank goodness for 100ft heavy duty extension cords.
16) It's going to be a very, very long few weeks.
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Date: 2010-06-10 09:26 am (UTC)I'm sure you could size a UPS big enough to run a coffee maker but a gas burner would be far easier. I don't know if the little gas canister camping cookers that are all over here like a rash this year are available there but might be worth a look!
Getting the breakers replaced with ones you can actually un-trip would seem a good plan too!
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Date: 2010-06-13 12:04 am (UTC)The only circuits that can handle kitchen-type appliances are in the kitchen. Hmmmph.
We managed to get the circuit un-tripped and now have the fridge plugged into the craft room (and only the fridge). We'll be moving tables in and out of the kitchen in order to set things up in the evenings to cook things. The only kind of gas burner I can buy needs to be run outside due to fumes (we don't Do Gas here) which is only really good when it's not raining.
The electricians were in yesterday to start moving sockets around and running new things into the kitchen. The end result of that is that the 240 volt socket for the stove is the only one that currently works (all the rest are in various stages of bare wire). The stove is plugged in (they forgot to move it back into the kitchen on Thursday so we ate out, but we made sure they moved it back yesterday) and the stove has a little socket on it so that I have somewhere to plug in the coffee maker or kettle. Today I was running the food processor from it :-D
Basically, cooking is going to require a lot of work to get things set up each night but it's doable. I may hate this 'not enough electric' thing. I may also hate peoples' astonishment that I didn't know circuits here couldn't handle a microwave and a kettle at the same time outside the kitchen.
Today the weather was gorgeous so we BBQ'd :-D