Client from hell who came over from America to oversee this. Tenant good as gold.......managing agent from hell.

Another Howdens kitchen with plenty of design and measurement cock ups. had to sort these, as usual. Fecking designer hadn't even been in the flat, she used the measurements from an upstairs flat she has designed for us grrrrrrrrr.

Granite man has knocked my sink unit out of plumb and slightly skew wiff. Did exact same on another kitchen. Luckily have managed to adjust doors to compensate and you can't notice, except for gap either side of washer/drier which is 5mm more than I like to have.

Finished tiling and used black trim as per clients wish. Client came along next day and said she didn't like them. I had to change them for brushed steel. Plus a few other try my patience tricks.

Got fed up with hearing about how they had a Poggenpol kitchen before. Got fed up pointing out it was just a bottom range contract one which had been thrown in.

That is a Howdens engineered floor which I laid and also put in hall.

Not bad.

OAK, do you have to seal floors like that in kitchens, what happens when they get wet.

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When they get wet and knackered, the insurance pays out lol.

To be serious though, (although that was an insurance job 30K worth!!! mad world) I always tell them not to mop it. Any spills to be dried straight away. Do not hoover but use a broom and swiffer mop. Any wet cleaning to be done with a slightly damp cloth. I wouldn't recommend them for kitchens, but it depends how well they are looked after.

No addtional sealing as they are factory done.

At the end of the day if there is a flood then a soft floor covering would be knackered and even tiles although they will look fine can be knackered due to the moisture content in them.

another quallity fit

i guess your clients like wine. 2x racks and a wine fridge

like it a lot

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Lovely Job.

Looking at the Photos, it seems that the lighting makes it look much better in most shots than shots 1,2,5 which seem to be taken in daylight. I am looking to take more portfolio shots in the hope of being more selective about what work I choose to do, so hoping to learn how to go about it.

What did you use for the silicone around the doors for the laminate?

Speed..........client liking wine lol. More like Howdens top nob undesigner using the extra one to fill a space. Although the client from flat upstairs who has been in to view, quite rightly pointed out that one would be for white and one for red.

Jozeffo........Some pics were with flash on and some with it turned off. I think the crisper ones were with it on. Haven't a c,lue which were which. I always do it and every time I then promptly forget which are which. I delelted a lot as they were blurred and so would hazard a guess that the crisper ones are with flash. Kitchen was internal and so therefore it doesn't have any natural light.

I feel that it is best to have a wide angled lense as you seem to get more in the pics. Wish I had one. I have had a new camera for the last two years and still haven't used it lol.

Not sure about the route of selective pics on a site as it could convey that you do not want jobs under a certain level. Having said that, I have never added pics onto my site. I should have done as I lost all my pics a few months back!! My fault for not backing up.

I ran a bead of Dow Corning 785 around the architraves. I only use Dow Corning apart from non standard colours. I don't always do this but when it is a replacement floor and the frames were undercut far too much then it doesn't leave much option. Could have used thicker underlay or doubled it up but that would have been the contractors call.

Another tidy one

Shame the 'designer's' skill didn't extend to glass shelves in a lit glass cabinet

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I didn't take delivery of the kitchen as I was doing another job. Bit of a design mistake that. Told my apprentice to unpack the glass shelves to put in and hey presto.............err there are not any lol

Bottom line is it would be my mistake but client likes it for some strange reason. She has the same in her house in the States.

How much did you have to shave off that right hand side wall unit round the boxing? looks like another couple of mil and it would have saved some alterations. Like the idea of doubling up the frame.

The left hand side... i'm sure a man of your caliber could have cut a shelf in

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I would have had to take the whole side off of it. So with time constraints due to losing first day because of the shat Howdens undesigner and some other time because of the client, it was quicker to take out the back 100mm and then double up.

I could have made a shelf to go in the left hand side. The sink unit is taken up with the waste!!!!!! so not much room in there. That left hand cupboard was supposed to be for taller cleaning stuff but client has put light bulbs in it lol.

I had already fitted all the base, tall and some of the wall units when the client decided she wanted a deeper worktop on the sink run. Designer knew apparently but failed to indicate it on the plan. Happy days, had to move the whole lot by 80mm lol.