DIY advice... kitchen flooring

[Archie_tect]

The rep was Chalkie White... a very dapper Fifer!

 

[Aperitif]

kitchen worktop is another thing I'll be needing... would you say @Aperitif @rich p that Phenolic faced plywood is a cost effective alternative to a 3m x 600mm x 30mm* worktop?

*i have a reclaimed sink, not the drop in type that is 30mm deep on the front and sides... so for uniformity, I'm after 30mm as opposed to 40mm

I had to biscuit join the weird shape needed fro the kitchen worktop, although the thickness was adequate. I wasn't keen on the hexagon 'tread'...just seemed like a load of dirt catchers to me. On the floor of a flat back lorry it wouldn't matter, but with hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face - no thanks. Polished concrete? Or what about a mix up of paving stone and Rich's scaffold boards. I built a bar with scaffold boards, doubled up and offset - easy to get a nice 'manly' billet of wood doing that! Would match the pressplate flooring a treat.
Beebo's right - but somewhere along the line one does things for the enjoyment the thing gives - doing with a view to selling is another truc des poissons...

 

[Archie_tect]

No, he seemed quite clever....

 

[Archie_tect]

[QUOTE 2766873, member: 259"]He'll be sending him another bill as we speak...[/quote]
...another?

 

[MontyVeda]

Just a word of caution before you go too far off piste, if you ever want to sell this house, buyers are very picky about kitchens and a bad kitchen can make a house tricky to sell.

i rent... it's a 1st floor flat so my kitchen was originally a bedroom... in fact it still has the original over-bed light pull, above the sink.

my landlady is fine with me making changes/minor improvements, so long as it's cheap enough, she'll knock the cost off the rent.

 

[Aperitif]

i rent... it's a 1st floor flat so my kitchen was originally a bedroom... in fact it still has the original over-bed light pull, above the sink.

my landlady is fine with me making changes, so long as it's cheap enough, she'll knock the cost of the rent.

Skip the paving slabs idea then, or you'll be doing a kitchen transplant - direct to your landlady's!

 

[MontyVeda]

Skip the paving slabs idea then, or you'll be doing a kitchen transplant - direct to your landlady's!

got my eye on 2.5m laminate worktop on ebay... £10, no bids... just have to get it back from Preston.... on a pannier rack

 

[MontyVeda]

As a proud son of Lancaster proper lino is the only option isn't it. Lord Ashton would be turning in his grave with all this cork tile malarkey.

I'm sure he's been spinning like a pig on a spit since they dug up all the flower beds around Ryelands House... plus there's not a scrap of lino in the Ashton Memorial

 

[MontyVeda]

I thought Kirkcaldy in Scotchland was the epicentre of the lino world, or used to be.

it is... but if you're from Lancaster, we simply pretend there's no such place as Kirkcaldy.

 

[berty bassett]

Thanks Berty, will definitely by putting hardboard down over the floor boards. And agreed about self adhesive... I'd rather use a solvent based adhesive that reminds me of the Subhumans... with the windows open of course

if you do put hardboard down - remember to wet it first the night before then when you put it down it will shrink a little and it will tighten so there isnt any bubbles in it

 

[threebikesmcginty]

it is... but if you're from Lancaster, we simply pretend there's no such place as Kirkcaldy.

To be fair, so do people from Scotland.

 

[MontyVeda]

if you do put hardboard down - remember to wet it first the night before then when you put it down it will shrink a little and it will tighten so there isnt any bubbles in it

that's good advice.


Regarding rearranging the units.... I'll be left with a half inch* gap between the oven and units on either side. Is this enough?

*that's around 12.7mm to those born after 1980.

 

[Archie_tect]

Depends if it's a modular oven, ie 590/595mm wide designed to fit snugly into a 600mm space, or an older 520mm [or so] one which needs more ventilation space either side. Half inch should be OK but crud will get down there regardless!

 

[MontyVeda]

it's just so much more than a cycling forum.

 

[Arch]

Why not trawl the suppliers and get samples of all the ones you like and create a unique floor, little by little

When NT and I were debating the flooring in our new bedroom and bathroom, and quailing at the cost, I joked "All I need to do is find 40 square metres of laminate flooring in the recycling" - it's funny how often little things we need do turn up*.

A few weeks later, I found a marketing folder from a flooring manufacturer, which had a couple of dozen little samples stuck to it, each a couple of square inches. I took it over at the weekend and said "Well, it's a start!"

*Five minutes after I mentioned to a colleague that I was looking for a kitchen roll holder, bingo! But I think the velux window brought to our work give and take day is the most spectacular. Now installed in our bathroom!