Day 225-6. Tim vs Ikea

Nothing thurs; friday 11-3 Tim the carpenter comes in and wrestles with the Ikea units. Unsurprisingly for a proper carpenter he isn't keen on them, but he beats them into submission. This is good, because it clears the kids room of the flatpacks that have been clogging it up for months, and it gives us a chance to see how things will fit. We're not very good at doing it in abstract.

So... the cooker stack is too high by about 2". Possibilities: cut the legs down (bad for the line at the bottom); let it stick up over the window line at the top (inelegant); get Tim to cut it down somewhat. Probably go for the latter; this may cause some squiggling with doors. Should we order a cooker?

Also, the cooker stack, if put flush with the units to the corner, will be just on the edge of one of the vertical slit windows, and this will be inelegant. So we need to pad out the units by a fraction to push it towards the existing kitchen. And we need Pete tPP to re-do the temporary pipes a bit so the stack will fit.

We haven't got any worktop yet.

The units sit flush to the wall, so its not clear how the pipes for water will get around... need Pete for that. Possibly underneath, but Tim seems unkeen on this - don't know why.

Oddly enough, we seem to have all the nunits we wanted and needed, and nothing appears to be missing (except we don't have enough legs). To Ikea this weekend? (no).