Good morning Bloggets. How are you all today? Me? Thank you for asking. Smile!!! I’m doing better than yesterday I have had time to calm down. Today our builder is here, it’s eleven in the morning, he has been here just over two hours so possibly will have another hour to go before he has to move on to his next job. Or the pub.
The guys he has working for him are brilliant. But if he had worked too, the job would have been finished.
We learned yesterday that the joiner who is a hard worker, and seems to be honest, is on holiday when our kitchen is due. So, who would be doing our kitchen? God knows, not the builder though, as I think his role is to organise everyone together and that is a tough job I do know that. But because until today there has only been one person on the job, apart from three hours, it’s took longer than I hoped for. I mean as I said yesterday, overnight we had no ceiling up and we don’t have electrics until next Wednesday. In the kitchen that is.
Monday the plastering work starts. More mess which is to be expected. We did learn that a fancy ceiling light I had that was designed by the person who lived in our house before us, well, the switch had normal sticky tape keeping the very dangerous wires together and there was a kind of bread tie in there too.
My Husband wants our trusty joiner to do our kitchen. But, it’s whether he will be able to gather the people to do the work together? This builder seems to know and have available workers so then you have to ask who will be fitting our kitchen? If it was this joiner who has been doing all the work so far, from knocking out the window to breaking up part of our kitchen to putting the plaster boards up, smashing part of the floor and removing a radiator, then no trouble. I would stick to these guys. But it’s not going to be and what if it’s Jo Blogs from up the road? Who has only ever fitted two kitchens before ours? Our joiner is very experienced. We can trust him with our lives, he’s a great guy and one I can call a friend. But the builder said because he knows lots of people, he can get the kitchen done in half the time. Hmm. That is what he said though about the work he has or is, doing to prepare for the new kitchen.
It’s funny to see how the builder is in front of my Hub and my Son. He is so friendly to me and so hostile to the boys. I want to trust this guy, he is nice, just so far, this job has took so long and to be in such a mess all this time is driving me crazy. Having said that my friend’s daughter is out of her house for a month to get her kitchen done.
Right now, Boy Wonder is being wonderful and has gone with Hub to our electric shop to change the date on the kitchen equipment to be delivered earlier. I chose the Beko cheap washing machine and dryer. They are the cheapest, but reasons to pick them?
1. They both matched. It’s surprising just how many washing machines don’t match the dryers even though they are the same make.
2. The price is great. Now if they break after three years, then buy another two. Then after three more years, you may come close to the next available machines. In other words, you can buy these machines twice and not pay as much as the other brand, which was Miele. So, why only the choice of two brands? Because Beko and Miele, are the only ones we found that were blind friendly. They had proper stick out buttons and dials we can work with. The other machines were all LED digital displays. Flat panels to select your wash/dry and all sorts of visual stuff going on.
For two Beko machines it was £600 and for one Miele only, so just the washer, it was more than both of the above washing machine and dryer.
The Beko is good as far as it holds a lot of clothes and gives them a good spin but it lasts for ages whereas the Miele is much faster so for a good wash, the Beko is on for two and a half hours in comparison to the Miele which lasts one hour and five minutes.
But Miele is more than £650 just for the Washing machine alone whereas the Beko for both washer and dryer are total £600.
Our cooker, we went for a 90mm range cooker. Gas on the hob and oven electric. It’s a five burner with a wok burner in the middle. Two ovens and a grill underneath. It’s chunky and of course we needed to buy separately a splash back to go behind
Confused? Me to. My head is all over the place. A bit like our builder! ! !
I wonder where he is now?
It’s really going to be a long four weeks.
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