Gloss True Handless German Kitchen.

[snezza]

I finished this one today.

Kitchen is German True Handless, Base & Tall unit doors are Cuzco Graffit and Wall unit doors are Rio Light Grey Metallic.
780mm high Base Units with 100mm St/ Steel plinths. Wall units are 910mm high with MRMDF scribe panels up to the ceiling.

Oven, Combi, Hood, Induction Hob, Fridge, Freezer and D/W are all Siemens. W/M was customers own existing as was the Franke Ceramic Sink and Triflow Tap.

Solid Surface worktops are Hanex that I fabricated myself and Hi Gloss wall panels are Arctic White Lustrolite.

Flooring is Karndean type material that the customer arranged to be fitted yesterday.

Pictures Before.

   

   

   

   

   

[snezza]

After.

   

   

   

   

   

The pictures below show ( or hopefully dont show....) the 2 on site joints I did....
Worktops were fabricated to a 25mm thickness.

   

   

As you can see, the room is not large so there wasnt much of an option with regard to changing the layout when comparing the Old with the New kitchen.

The customer is well happy......Got a £50 tip and a nice bottle of Red Wine as well...  Happy Days!

   

   

The Black mark that appears to be on the worktop in front of the Sink, was in fact a Fly that buzzed across me whilst doing my David Bailey impression.. .

[mister_mitch]

much better 

[snezza]

Thanks Mitch 

It has been a challenge trying to keep Social Distancing but I got there in the end.

I had a 3 hour delay yesterday morning.....I dropped back onto the job just to fit the Plinths after the flooring was laid the day before. When I got there yesterday morning, the Client was concerned some of the Karndean type floor tiles were not stuck and were easy to lift up. I took a look and as far as I could tell, nearly all the tiles were loose..   She had phoned the company to let them know,.....The next thing, they turned up and said it would all need to come up again as the adhesive they had used must have set before they had laid the tiles. I had to clear all my Tools out of the way, remove the Plinths that I'd just fitted and wait while they re did the floor.
They had also slackened off all the front legs of my cabinets to tuck the flooring underneath so they didnt have to cut them.....I wasnt happy about that and I told them so....."Nobody else have ever complained before in 15 years of me doing the job" he said. Well, "you must have been working for chancers all the time then" I said....At which point, I decided to go and have a cup of Tea in the van.....

3 hrs later, i got done ...... I think that was part of the reason she slipped me the extra £50. She was also very apologetic...

She now wants me to make her a small breakfast table to go in the room with a dark Grey Solid Surface top and a real wood frame & legs.....ERCOL style!

[Stretch]

Not a big fan of anything that’s close to black in a kitchen but it’s a nice mix of colours and textures.

Unusual (for us) to see worktops without upstands, especially when glass is involved as I’m guessing there was little tolerance and the worktops had to fit within a few mm...

Re other trades winding legs up and down. That really pisses me off as we install everything with a laser nowadays. We had the quartz installed on our latest job today and the fitter started to remove the plinths in an attempt to wind the legs up or down although he would have struggled as we had flooded the legs with SLC.

I told him to stop and threw a pack of shims at him. Even with a laser, it’s impossible to get it millimetre perfect but they don’t realise that adjusting legs up and down twists the doors out of level.

Nice job anyway Tim. ??

[snezza]

In some of my pictures, the base unit doors do look rather dark....! In reality, they are definitely Grey and lighter than they appear.

The Client didnt want upstands and I think the Lustrolite straight down on the worktop looks cleaner than it would have with upstands.

The worktops have to be fitted with a few mm clearance from the walls to allow for movement, the same with the Lustrolite as it can expand & contract by 1mm per meter.

[Daniel]

Looks good Snez, I like the colour of those base units.  We always fit the glass to the worktop like that as well with no upstand.

Just signed up our second black kitchen of the year actually .... we love them dark and moody these days !!

I just don't understand some tradesmen sometimes, so many guys strut around sites giving the impression they don't give a shit and wanting people to think they have skin like a rhino, but the truth is I have never come across a more sensitive group of people - all in it together to fook over who ever they can ..... ..... and then they wonder why some people don't want to pay them a decent day rate - its because you are acting like a C@%T mate !!

[snezza]

Those doors are made of a material that is manufactured in Spain. The company are called Alvic and this is in their "Luxe" Range.

I was hoping to be able to buy the large sheet material and make my own doors/panels along with all the cabinets, but the Cuzco Grafitt colour is not imported into the UK.
The annoying thing was, the other colours in their Luxe range ARE imported into the UK.... So, in the end, I ended up ordering the complete kitchen from Germany.
Made & Delivered in just over 3 weeks during Lockdown...

The Gloss finish on these panels is about the best I have ever seen.....The depth and mirror finish is superb and near perfect! 

In reality, I could have put my foot down and told to the Flooring guys to #*!@ Off until I had finished my aspect of the job, and left them to remove & then re fit my Plinths but I decided I'd rather wait until they had finished, hence the 3 hour delay.

[chippy1970]

Those doors are made of a material that is manufactured in Spain. The company are called Alvic and this is in their "Luxe" Range.

I was hoping to be able to buy the large sheet material and make my own doors/panels along with all the cabinets, but the Cuzco Grafitt colour is not imported into the UK.
The annoying thing was, the other colours in their Luxe range ARE imported into the UK.... So, in the end, I ended up ordering the complete kitchen from Germany.
Made & Delivered in just over 3 weeks during Lockdown...

The Gloss finish on these panels is about the best I have ever seen.....The depth and mirror finish is superb and near perfect! 

In reality, I could have put my foot down and told to the Flooring guys to #*!@ Off until I had finished my aspect of the job, and left them to remove & then re fit my Plinths but I decided I'd rather wait until they had finished, hence the 3 hour delay.

My cut & edge place www.cutwrights.com sell Luxe lovely stuff but not cheap though

Nice job ? 

Getting closer to doing my own kitchen, had my plasterer in last week and I'm preparing to spray the walls and ceilings tomorrow. Should be fun I've only used an airless sprayer once, but you know what they say if you can pi55 you can paint lol