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Before we start |
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Stripping the original units |
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Tear out the false half wall behind the sink |
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Off with the plaster |
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Remove the redundant wiring and the unused but still pressurised gas pipes lost in the plaster and the long disconnected back boiler piping |
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Bring down the ceiling |
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Knock out the redundant doorway, cut off the non load bearing stub wall and make good Before and after |
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Make good where the redundant piping and conduit has been ripped out of the walls |
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New window, with proper lintel under the outside wall leaf Before and after |
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Boarding out and the new ceiling |
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Revised and rebuilt service duct |
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Plaster out |
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Seal the floor Note slab cast to level floor with form for the mat well still in place |
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Paint through |
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Lay porcelain tile floor |
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Skirting boards fitted, kitchen units go in |
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Building the gas water cooker supply service duct. Chopping the vent for the extractor hood |
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Routing the worktops |
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Trial fit of the worktops |
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Sealing and final preparation of the worktops |
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Worktops fitted, tiling the spashback and the service duct |
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Installing the extractor hood, and testing it |
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Cooker, hob and sink functional |
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Wall cupboards installed |
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Doors on and levelled |
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Usable if not quite finished |
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