ALL GONE!
Showing posts with label Kitchen. Laundry Room. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kitchen. Laundry Room. Show all posts
Monday 29 August 2016
The Kitchen 4 of 4
Oh MY .. I had truly forgotten the despair that was in this room when I chose to purchase this house in 2010! The first two photos are of the kitchen built in 1985 before I moved in. Interesting they had a window bench! The next photos are of the chaos of renovation happening in the first four weeks. I was instructed to remove all wallpaper in the house as my first task!
I now know that the then extraction unit used the trap door access to the attic. Probably it was a ladder to a very rough living space in the attic!
ALL GONE!
ALL GONE!
Sunday 8 May 2016
The Kitchen: Where was I? Where am I? 1 of 5
Looking back:
It was a year ago that 35 year old kitchen cabinets, inherited in 2010, began to be removed! There were already gaps in the kitchen where various parts had perished! Now, some of the better carcasses were upcycled into the laundry room
This was my kitchen... look back to here.
Some became destined for the dechetterie.
Some are still under the open shed roof waiting to be reused or passed on. The copper on the extraction hood invites me to lift it off for selling or using the copper plate! BUT I don't have skills!
Some doors without their carcasses are perfectly good when painted if someone can make a cabinet to fit.
When the oven stopped at the end of August 2015 I was bereft, but I knew that I would find a way to cook as I love cooking, especially when others are here to eat!
Out came the 40 year old two ring gas hob. Excellent. Though it had to be housed in the atelier almost open to the elements! Jolly cold out there and it was and still is a mad dash to watch the pans from burning whilst backwards and forwards to the sink and to prep food.
In February friends sold me a gas hob with electric oven; an overwhelmingly saviour!
NO, I do not like slow cooking in a special electric pot.
NO, I do not like electric steam cooking.
YES, a microwave /combi has its uses.
I tried all of the above.
Living alone, I cook very simply and maybe this has not always been good for the digestive issues I have! I tend to pan sauté fish, meat and veg in olive oil. But I like it so am not going to change!
I lost confidence in cake making and meal making during the course of the year. Gradually, the passion is returning when visitors descend!
I like to find new recipes as well as re-discover favourite ones so I am looking forward to a display of my cookbooks. .
The saga of finding an electrician who I felt I could trust to do all the work and not to leave me in a mess was based on the year long experience (between October 2014 and December 2015) of having Collet mess me about over the Chauffeau Thermodynamique. Basically he ignored my continual plea for help. I had the choice of the most enormous noise in the house, sucking up warm air, blowing out cold, or no hot water at all.... which was not good for my mind nor my physical ailments. I became extremely depressed even though I rallied to follow my grandmother's footsteps. "I can do it" was my motto.
Eventually, the compressor died completely. Whatever the electrician did in May 2015 (his only visit before I called in Protection Juridique, who took almost 3 months to solve the problem, the result of which was not to my satisfaction) to enable hot water, eventually blew all the electricity in the house forcing me to have no hot water for months between July and mid October, when then he arrived under instructions from the legal team with a manufacturer rep and an independent "expert". He reconnected it, having contacted someone else to know how to do it! This was the same as in May 2015 but it blew again the whole house electricity again in mid November.
Patiebce had worn rather thin. Stress levels were high.
Finally, as reported in this blog I scrapped everything and paid for a new Chauffeau electrique with a different company.
The kitchen
Eventually after three estimates and a friend's offer of his friend, a jobbing electrician who was between professional contracts, I continued to feel uncomfortable until eventually I decided for various sound reasons to ask BERTUCELLI to do the work even though the cost!
I am so glad I did!
I am waiting for the sink delivery so that I can recall them for the second fix of plumbing.
I am waiting for them to connect radiators for central heating but that is because I've asked them to wait so I can stage payments.
All seems good.
Another large company were helpful but a small drip on the chauffeau electrique waited three months before it was repaired, making my decision easier! They didn't get the work which was a shame as I liked the patron.
Continued tomorrow.
It was a year ago that 35 year old kitchen cabinets, inherited in 2010, began to be removed! There were already gaps in the kitchen where various parts had perished! Now, some of the better carcasses were upcycled into the laundry room
This was my kitchen... look back to here.
Some became destined for the dechetterie.
Some are still under the open shed roof waiting to be reused or passed on. The copper on the extraction hood invites me to lift it off for selling or using the copper plate! BUT I don't have skills!
Some doors without their carcasses are perfectly good when painted if someone can make a cabinet to fit.
When the oven stopped at the end of August 2015 I was bereft, but I knew that I would find a way to cook as I love cooking, especially when others are here to eat!
Out came the 40 year old two ring gas hob. Excellent. Though it had to be housed in the atelier almost open to the elements! Jolly cold out there and it was and still is a mad dash to watch the pans from burning whilst backwards and forwards to the sink and to prep food.
In February friends sold me a gas hob with electric oven; an overwhelmingly saviour!
NO, I do not like slow cooking in a special electric pot.
NO, I do not like electric steam cooking.
YES, a microwave /combi has its uses.
I tried all of the above.
Living alone, I cook very simply and maybe this has not always been good for the digestive issues I have! I tend to pan sauté fish, meat and veg in olive oil. But I like it so am not going to change!
I lost confidence in cake making and meal making during the course of the year. Gradually, the passion is returning when visitors descend!
I like to find new recipes as well as re-discover favourite ones so I am looking forward to a display of my cookbooks. .
The saga of finding an electrician who I felt I could trust to do all the work and not to leave me in a mess was based on the year long experience (between October 2014 and December 2015) of having Collet mess me about over the Chauffeau Thermodynamique. Basically he ignored my continual plea for help. I had the choice of the most enormous noise in the house, sucking up warm air, blowing out cold, or no hot water at all.... which was not good for my mind nor my physical ailments. I became extremely depressed even though I rallied to follow my grandmother's footsteps. "I can do it" was my motto.
Eventually, the compressor died completely. Whatever the electrician did in May 2015 (his only visit before I called in Protection Juridique, who took almost 3 months to solve the problem, the result of which was not to my satisfaction) to enable hot water, eventually blew all the electricity in the house forcing me to have no hot water for months between July and mid October, when then he arrived under instructions from the legal team with a manufacturer rep and an independent "expert". He reconnected it, having contacted someone else to know how to do it! This was the same as in May 2015 but it blew again the whole house electricity again in mid November.
Patiebce had worn rather thin. Stress levels were high.
Finally, as reported in this blog I scrapped everything and paid for a new Chauffeau electrique with a different company.
The kitchen
Eventually after three estimates and a friend's offer of his friend, a jobbing electrician who was between professional contracts, I continued to feel uncomfortable until eventually I decided for various sound reasons to ask BERTUCELLI to do the work even though the cost!
I am so glad I did!
I am waiting for the sink delivery so that I can recall them for the second fix of plumbing.
I am waiting for them to connect radiators for central heating but that is because I've asked them to wait so I can stage payments.
All seems good.
Another large company were helpful but a small drip on the chauffeau electrique waited three months before it was repaired, making my decision easier! They didn't get the work which was a shame as I liked the patron.
Continued tomorrow.
Sunday 27 September 2015
Laundry room 2015
from no sink or work surface to 'a working area' with the recycled, repaired, repainted oak kitchen cabinets, circa 1985, painted in Dulux Quartz Grey.
I don't think I shall be able to store food in here if that red central heating oil fired boiler ignites! Nor will I be place chocolate or jams on it! In fact, I think I don't have sufficient knowledge about how it will affect the room which was incredibly rustic when I bought the house.
I heard it roar once when it was lit to prove it worked on the day that I became the owner occupier! EEEKKK... Do I know what I am doing?
In July I reported on the Laundry Room called in France un buanderie....
So if you go HERE you can see pics...but close that window and then return here to finish reading.....
On the fourth wall is the 4 to 5 year old water boiler chauffeau thermodynamique, costing in 3k to install, the compressor of which is dead because the installer has not installed it with sufficient venting nor in a room the correct size!!!!!!! and !!!!!!! and !!!!!!! So I currently have no hot water and the problem started October 2014.
THE PAST
Oh and this was some of the state of the laundry room in 2010. A concrete floor that let in water. A old doorway screed render on a bit of cardboard and wood! I shall make a posting of the exterior of this room ... searching through my blog, I can't find reference to any of the exterior or interior of this room being 'improved'. I went out whilst a friend's son blocked in the doorway!!! No tying in at all! I was not happy! Now, it is well rendered over on the inside and behind the vacuum cupboard.
I have no idea why there was green matchboarding on this part of the original render (cement possibly !!! ggggrrrrrr ) There it is!!!
If you look at the ceiling the plasterboard or whatever was held up at the edge by timber lengths. we had to re- do the ceiling but unfortunately did not investigate what was above it!
I am wondering if this will have to be done as the thermodynamique boiler in the position of that yellow and black thing may have to have a ventilation unit going through the ceiling and the roof!
I heard it roar once when it was lit to prove it worked on the day that I became the owner occupier! EEEKKK... Do I know what I am doing?
In July I reported on the Laundry Room called in France un buanderie....
So if you go HERE you can see pics...but close that window and then return here to finish reading.....
On the fourth wall is the 4 to 5 year old water boiler chauffeau thermodynamique, costing in 3k to install, the compressor of which is dead because the installer has not installed it with sufficient venting nor in a room the correct size!!!!!!! and !!!!!!! and !!!!!!! So I currently have no hot water and the problem started October 2014.
THE PAST
Oh and this was some of the state of the laundry room in 2010. A concrete floor that let in water. A old doorway screed render on a bit of cardboard and wood! I shall make a posting of the exterior of this room ... searching through my blog, I can't find reference to any of the exterior or interior of this room being 'improved'. I went out whilst a friend's son blocked in the doorway!!! No tying in at all! I was not happy! Now, it is well rendered over on the inside and behind the vacuum cupboard.
I have no idea why there was green matchboarding on this part of the original render (cement possibly !!! ggggrrrrrr ) There it is!!!
If you look at the ceiling the plasterboard or whatever was held up at the edge by timber lengths. we had to re- do the ceiling but unfortunately did not investigate what was above it!
I am wondering if this will have to be done as the thermodynamique boiler in the position of that yellow and black thing may have to have a ventilation unit going through the ceiling and the roof!
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