Well, major progress has been made, although our kitchen is still in major chaos! All of yesterday was spent removing the old worktops and fitting the new granite ones. Thankfully, thankfully they all fit perfectly (I admit to being slightly worried as no templates were made), although they haven't been sealed in place yet as we have to wait for the new oven to be fitted in first.
Removing the old worktops took a long, long time
and involved jacking up the faux chimney breast until it could be re-supported by the new worktop. If you look in the third and fourth photos you can see the chimney breast floating a bit in space! The slabs of granite had to be slid underneath the sides of the chimney breast and not cut around it as I had envisaged-the OH looked at me as if I was mad when I asked how they were going to cut around the outline of the chimney breast!! We are also going to change the design of the lower cabinets slightly to make them match the top cupboards better. So it's going to be a very long time before all the cabinets and woodwork can be painted pale grey (Farrow & Ball's 'Blackened') but I can't wait! It was a two-man job to lift the longest piece of granite (thank goodness I'm female...) and there was lots of dust to clear up as well. The old green oven was covered as you can see, and somehow I don't think we'll be using that again....
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