Sunday was a day for a job or two
Lady T bought a fridge off a mate, but this 'new' one is significantly wider, so I had to take off the piece on the side, and 'extend' the bit at the top (I bought a white shelf and cut it to size, then plonked the cupboard on top. We'll use the newly-created gap at the top right for keeping the chopping boards. The old one will go in the shed out the back. I even removed, cut and then replaced the skirting board properly, so it is actually for once something that's finished off properly, which then inspired me to go and do more stuff while I was on a roll.
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This 'new' fridge has an ice maker and a chilled water dispenser, so it needed plumbing into the water supply... so I ran some 1/4" plastic pipe under the cupboards and connected it to the drinking water filter system that lives under the sink.
I also replaced some bits of decking that had broken. Can you guess which ones I replaced?
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The dog seemed happy with the work.
I also fixed this art easel that broke about 3 or 4 years ago when some high wind blew it over and snapped the cheapo plastic hinges at the top. My eldest thought that "hinge butts" were a very funny name.
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Then I mounted this giant ruler so we can mark it as the kids grow. The bricks are so bastard hard that my hammer drill couldn't only make a dent and the bits were going to get trashed. So in the true spirit of 'fuck it, that'll do' I drilled a hole in the mortar and fixed it that way
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In the background you'll see a surround sound speaker at an irritating angle. The kids think it's hilarious to keep doing that, even though it annoys me immensely.
I then stuck the old fridge out in the shed. I had to take the doors off the fridge to get it out the back door. Now the old-old fridge is redundant I'll try and sell it (although Lady T suggested we keep it 'just in case', I really don't think we need 3 fridge freezers)
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Finally I decided to put up some coat hooks. The dark one was in the laundry, but we moved it so we could put shelves in instead. The lighter one I bought from the local DIY shop. I'll stain the wood later (gimme a couple of years to build up to it OK) Annoyingly the wood base for the new one was ever so slightly different width to the old one so I elected to line up the centre hooks rather then the edge, and I'm not sure I'm happy with that decision. But if I'd chosen to align one of the edges, I probably would have found that wonky too.
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