Kitchen Assemblage Day 17

So the door is on the back burner for now. We have a plan - moving the pivot attachment right to the corner of the door, recessing it deeper into the door and lowering the rail which holds up the door. This, however, would unleash a world of faff; so we chose to do some kitchen fitting instead!

What a contrast it was, too! We were blessed to have a manual that not only covered the topics we needed to know about but also had diagrams. Beautiful diagrams! Just take a minute to admire the quality. 24 pages of this. Contrast that with the two sides of A4 that the door "instructions" consisted of. All that told you about was tolerances, naff all about how to assemble it. Not like this beauty:

I didn't realise that there was also a gift box with these instructions. The gift box contained a pack of Yorkshire Tea, two Yorkshire flapjacks and a tourist guide for Yorkshire. Are you noticing the theme too?

Once we'd got over the excitement of having usable instructions and unexpected flapjack, we made a start on marking out where the top row of cabinets would be fixed to the wall. 

Now that the floor had been fitted, the first thing to do was fine tune the height of the cabinets. There needed to be enough height for some decorative wood on top of the cupboards. Typically there should be 40cm to 50cm distance between the countertop and the cupboards. It was looking like we were easily in that range. The base units would need some work to cope with the uneven floor (not all my fault) but again, well within the 3cm adjustment range of the feet.

Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself. We measured the height one side and worked out way, using a spirit level, to the other. We then used that line to mark where the brackets needed to go. These are the brackets that fit to the wall (there are two here - they snap in half):

The cupboard attaches to them with this reciprocal bit of hardware on the cupboards:

There's a screw to adjust in or out from the wall and, cleverly, a hole where a screwdriver can drive a gear that causes the cupboard to adjust vertically too:

Once we'd marked out where the fixings needed to be, we noticed that the wiring for the plugs would be running very close them. This will take some careful fixing in these areas!

Lastly, while moving one of the corner units, we noticed some damage. I think this was from a heavy landing as Tracy and I battled fatigue as we circumnavigated the houses with this beast of a unit. Twice. Main thing is that it's not really going to affect anything.

That's it for this weekend. With the bracket positions marked out, actually hanging them should be a fairly quick process. But this is me we're talking about and something is bound to crop up.