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What a week we have had in the UK, it was forecast for Thunderstorms and torrential rain for some areas, but fortunately where I live we totally missed it all. It's been sunny, or cloudy but incredibly hot - well by UK standard anyway. Even on the cloudy days the heat has been stifling, making it hard to work and pretty much impossible to sleep. Now in most areas of the world where high temperatures are the norm you have Air Conditioning as standard - in the UK it is rare to find it any home - in fact you would be foolish to both because the cost would far outweigh the rare requirement for it. Most of the time we are trying desperately to put heat into our houses not remove it.
Anyway this weekend I had phase two of my packing area redevelopment to work on, previously I floor painted the fair wall side of this area (without a mask or any sort of extraction which didn't do me any good at all), and fitted the sections of lino and rubber anti slip matting to cover the worst of the concrete which suffers from some sort of ground water moisture. That was around four weeks ago (took me that long to recover from the floor paint) and it was all fine until last Wednesday when the unpainted side got the moisture issue, and then because we were all walking on it all my new lino got mucky footprints on it all the time. Mopping it down every night before leaving work was annoying to say the least - so getting it covered with paint was a priority.
But I didn't think to shake the 20 litre tin of floor paint before pouring some out into a doner paint tub, and quickly I realised what I was painting wasn't the grey it should be. I never thought in four weeks the paint would settle again but obviously I just poured myself a good dose of oil with no paint.
To be fair there is no way to tell either way, it only has that little narrow pour spout. It was hard enough when I first opened it because this tin is about 14 years old, and nothing came out first time because it had a nice thick skin on top. So I had to ram a stick through the pour spout - which broke. And then another which eventually made a hole. But then it would not pour well because it air locked - so I ended up finding a long narrow drill bit to bore a second air hole further up the skin to let it pour. Shaking a 20 litre tin of paint is good exercise - but you really don't want to be doing too often. So after a good shake a more grey coloured paint poured out. my oily section would be getting a second coat, to be fair it probably will seal that section of concrete even better.
I did a bit on Friday night after work, and then finished off Saturday along with covering the oily bit. Looking better. The half onions were my misses idea to soak up the paint fumes. But I learned my lesson from the first encounter with floor paint, this time two face masks layered, two desk fans at either exit point of the area blowing out of the area so sucking the fumes out. And an extraction fan at the top of the chute from upstairs - back in the 60's when this building was a garment factory they would sew mostly medical uniforms (business as called Parkin's Garments in Halifax) and the finished clothing would be slid down the chute top left above the mirror from upstairs into wheel bins (we have about thirty of these wheeled containers still) to then be moved for packing. That combined effort made the whole thing less toxic and although I am worn out from working, I'm not suffering from the fumes like I did the first time. Someone did mention about the fumes affecting the green coffee sacks - all my coffee is Speciality grade so while the outside sack is Hessian in the traditional way - there is a Grain Pro hermatically sealed sack inside - which keeps the green coffee beans safe from moisture and anything else - so the coffee is in far better shape then me.
The floor painting was just a distraction from the main aim of the weekend, replace this grotty old sink unit. When we move in 12 years ago, there was no sink at all downstairs. Upstairs there is a sink in an area which would have once been a canteen for 50+ workers when it was a garment factory. Downstairs just two toilets with small basin's you could not even get a kettle under the tap. So way back then I put together this kitchen Unit, but it seemed a waste to buy a section of kitchen counter top to just cut a whole in most of it for the sink - so I just plonked the sink onto the open top counter - seemed like a good idea at the time. But of course with gaps all around and nothing sealed 12 years of wet got into all the wood, you never wanted to open that wonky door because of the grotty horror within. None of which was helped by the fact when I ran the waste pipe around 8m along the wall to the nearest drain point, fitting a few waste uprights and a long section of drain pipes for the testing espresso machines before shipping - I used a narrow bore pipe for the whole lot which didn't fit the sink drain - so I ended up trying to fill it in and it always dripped.
Out with the abomination, although then the wall needs painting and the horrible mess that was under the unit needs cleaning up before that section of floor can be painted.
Wall looks better, floor next.
New base unit number 1 built, now they have refined these things a lot in twelve years - the centre pillar now has six mounting points depending on how you plan to use it - because I have a sink going in I set the centre point off to the left to make room for the sink tub.
Counter top with cut out for the sink. I could have bought a brand new counter top to run along the section I wanted to build - but 2020 has been a difficult year and all this is being done on a shoe string budget seeing as Coronavirus has murdered trade. Originally I was going to pay someone to do all this instead of spending my weekends doing it - but when money is tight you do what is needed. I had this section of counter top from home when we replaced a breakfast bar with a new stand alone counter - so I wasn't too upset at cutting a big hole in the middle of it.
Again to save on money I am reusing the stainless steel sink - they are not cheap and stainless cleans up real quick with a bit of elbow grease. But I did buy a new plug and waste trap because the old one was grotty. Came to fit the new plug and it needed a 90mm hole in the sink - just my luck mine was 60mm. Well I wasn't putting the old grotty plug back in so I got the Angle grinder out and cut myself a new 90mm in the sink.
Testing my modified sink for water tightness - and also adding weight to help the massive amount of black silicone I put around the sink edges before putting it in place to seal tight.
It's good - no leaks or drips. By some great fortune I found a reduce fitting in one of my random storage tubs of stuff that might be useful so I won't throw it away that took the bigger bore waste outlet pipe down to the small bore I had used to send the waste out - and I had sections of pipe of each size to cut down to going it all together. It's not going to win any plumbing awards, but then I never claimed to be a plumber, or a builder, or as we will see later an electrician.
Base unit number two built. As I already mentioned I could have bought one new section of counter top for this full stretch, and a new sink and taps - but realistically this isn't a show home it's a warehouse and we just need something functional. Plus we survived 12 years with a sink sat on top of a unit with no counter top - so anything is better then that! I had the black counter left over from home, the grey is actually an office desk - or was. We inherited around 12 big office desks which are lurking upstairs, this one though was falling apart either side piece that held it up had splayed out from being moved about - so I ended up taking it apart before it fell apart. Then when I had this idea using the desk top seemed to fit - it was deeper then a standard counter top - so I just measured it up and jigsawed the back end off so they matched. Upcycling is trendy, I'm not cheap I'm just repurposing stuff - and somewhere on this planet a Dolphin and a Polar Bear are happier for my efforts.
New base units and new doors and hinges - they don't template for the handles any more though so I had to make my own templates from card 40mm down and 40mm in. Drill the holes and hope it's ok.
Think the handles went ok, they look a bit funky in this photo but it's the angle it was taken at. More fun - the filter coffee brewer and kettle I wanted to relocate here - but you can't have plug sockets near sinks so I had to use that switched isolate up above. So both machines needed new power cables and custom wiring. Damn kettle base is so thin was a fiddly job replacing the power cable on that - and it had push fit connectors that were crimped to the old power cables - so I had to carefully uncrimp each one, then fit in my new cable and then re-crimp.
So that was my exciting weekend, it looks easier then it is - counter tops are fixed to the base units with L brackets, base units are fixed to the wall with L brackets. The two counter tops are fixed together from beneath with three flat connectors. Sink is fitted into the counter with two custom connectors because I could not find the original grips from twelve years ago.......Lashings of Silicone to keep the wet out of the base unit.
And a #funkyedits flower pic to finish to make life that bit brighter.
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You can see that you looked very good in that remodeling.
Wow some tough work. Congrats on knowing how to do all that stuff ;)
Looking good!
Certainly can see the hard work that you are putting in. Looking forward to the tour.
You have got some work cut out for you well hope it's cooler down there then outside.
Whoa, that's a huge project! Glad you recovered from the fumes from the first go-round. That sounded awful. But the results of all that hard work are amazing. I'm really impressed with how handy you are, and the amazing transformation of the room after all your hard work. Too bad about the oil separating, but it's great that you were able to recover from that.
Beautiful restoration! It looks great. And I'm imagining it smells awesome now too - like coffee instead of paint.
You've been busy!!!
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