Day 284. Front step; templating
Pete and Paul; Tim; and Pete around today.
Pete and Paul seem to be mostly engaged building the front step - by the end of the day this is done, though as I point out (at least) one slab is not level. Pete blames this on someone treading on it, but it wasn't me, and it needs fixing. Tomorrow.
Tim does misc upstairs (including first steps in patching the frame to the bathroom to re-hang the door outwards) to get it into a state for the tiler tomorrow.
Pete tPP - not sure what he is up to, but he is doing something, at least for the first half of the day - he is off as I return at 12 for...
The templater from Ivett and Reed. This turns into a bit of a marathon, because of The Sink. Oh no, not again. Why oh why can't we get these things arranged beforehand in good time? So... all is going well, until we turn to the hole for the sink. At which point he says, as a matter of course, "oh you realise that we cut out the whole interior" - the point being, its a sink-plus-1/2, separated by a narrow (2cm) ridge of stainless steel. But. You can't cut granite that thin, it would break. Argh. In many ways granite, whilst beauteous etc, is not an ideal material to make worktops from! After much to-ing and fro-ing and phone calls to M and not being able to bear going back for yet another sink, hit upon ingeneous solution: we just thicken the granite over that bit. It has to have approx 1 cm overlip anyway; so we will have to lose about 2-4 cm's worth of sink width depending on how tight the cutter decides to make it (partly this is cos the granite may chip when cut; hence the first cut has to leave excess in case a second or third is required).
Then... belatedly (how often do I write that?) realise that we'd rather like the sink centered on the window. Originally this was to be achieved centering sink+1/2+draining board - when we were going to have this "on top". And we arranged the units accordingly. But, now its underneath, the draining bit is non-obtrusive grooves, so we need sink+1/2 centered instead. But, we can achieve this by shuffling the 20 cm unit to the other end (first checking with Pete and Tim this is OK, technically). Sigh.
Pete and Paul seem to be mostly engaged building the front step - by the end of the day this is done, though as I point out (at least) one slab is not level. Pete blames this on someone treading on it, but it wasn't me, and it needs fixing. Tomorrow.
Tim does misc upstairs (including first steps in patching the frame to the bathroom to re-hang the door outwards) to get it into a state for the tiler tomorrow.
Pete tPP - not sure what he is up to, but he is doing something, at least for the first half of the day - he is off as I return at 12 for...
The templater from Ivett and Reed. This turns into a bit of a marathon, because of The Sink. Oh no, not again. Why oh why can't we get these things arranged beforehand in good time? So... all is going well, until we turn to the hole for the sink. At which point he says, as a matter of course, "oh you realise that we cut out the whole interior" - the point being, its a sink-plus-1/2, separated by a narrow (2cm) ridge of stainless steel. But. You can't cut granite that thin, it would break. Argh. In many ways granite, whilst beauteous etc, is not an ideal material to make worktops from! After much to-ing and fro-ing and phone calls to M and not being able to bear going back for yet another sink, hit upon ingeneous solution: we just thicken the granite over that bit. It has to have approx 1 cm overlip anyway; so we will have to lose about 2-4 cm's worth of sink width depending on how tight the cutter decides to make it (partly this is cos the granite may chip when cut; hence the first cut has to leave excess in case a second or third is required).
Then... belatedly (how often do I write that?) realise that we'd rather like the sink centered on the window. Originally this was to be achieved centering sink+1/2+draining board - when we were going to have this "on top". And we arranged the units accordingly. But, now its underneath, the draining bit is non-obtrusive grooves, so we need sink+1/2 centered instead. But, we can achieve this by shuffling the 20 cm unit to the other end (first checking with Pete and Tim this is OK, technically). Sigh.
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