We have functioning stove and oven plus tiles, and shiny new fridge! Grout for the tiles, plus installation of the sink, tap and rangehood happening tomorrow.
@ai6yr love to hear this. We have an oversized induction cooktop just sitting in the empty and unfinished kitchen. It will be nice if it is ever complete and we can cook again.
This little guy's had a tough few days, trapped in the bedroom for most of the day while unknown humans have been making lots of banging and other unauthorised noises upstairs.
The Construction Phase has now begun. We've got a couple of days of lego plus tetris then I should have the basics of a functional kitchen by early next week.
The sparkys are all done now except for hooking up the oven and stove, which I think brings the Brick Dust stage of the Dust Festival to a close.
All the kit, except the new fridge, arrived yesterday and is ready to be put together next week. With some luck, I should have a functional kitchen back by next weekend. The tiling and flooring may take a few weeks more to sort out.
In today's edition of The Festival Of The Dust, the sparky's assistant has just cut through one of the water pipes, for some added fun. I'm hoping the plumber can come and sort that out today (they were planning to come anyway), otherwise I'm going to have a very dry long weekend!
Update: plumbers are coming just after lunch, phew.
The Dust is now infecting downstairs as well as new pipes are going in. The plumbers reckon they'll be all done today though which is amazing, putting me well ahead of schedule, especially if I can get the sparky to come tomorrow.
Jonny Ell
JL Johnson 
