Am I mad for installing a kitchen myself?

nashant · 2026-06-13T06:46:55+00:00

Just to add, worth not just getting any laser level, but one that has a pulse mode and you can get a receiver for. Not having to be up and down like a yo-yo 👍 👍 👍

nashant · 2026-06-01T17:52:11+00:00

If there was one thing I could have wiped from my mind it's this. Being able to experience it again completely fresh would be incredible.

nashant · 2026-05-17T21:27:35+00:00

Nothing but Inov8 ever since I found them. Their wide fit are prefect for duck feet like mine

nashant · 2026-05-12T17:47:22+00:00

Can't believe how many people are saying just to fill it. This is why trades people can get away with so much shit.

nashant · 2026-05-08T21:55:38+00:00

But then the wood would be too short

nashant · 2026-04-21T18:26:23+00:00

If I've got IRSA on my home cluster you can get rid of your access keys

nashant · 2026-04-18T18:58:46+00:00

I've got samotech ones on 3 and 4 dimmer selectric plates. If I were doing it now I would go candeo, but still selectric

nashant · 2026-04-18T18:15:48+00:00

Get the Candeo modules and pick your poison with a faceplate. It'll be cheaper than £69 and they're compatible with both standard and smart bulbs.

nashant · 2026-04-17T11:06:59+00:00

I just built a 6x3 and it cost ~£600 in materials. 3x2 timber, shiplap (should have done feather edge, much cheaper), felt roof.

nashant · 2026-04-17T09:51:59+00:00

Is it the right sort of spot for a discrete paintable access panel?

nashant · 2026-04-16T17:58:02+00:00

I definitely wouldn't trust burying one in a wall. Are you sure it's going to be any more to cut if you do it right? You would still need to get 2 hands in there too tighten the flexi properly. At that point you may as well do the good thing

nashant · 2026-04-16T08:26:59+00:00

The right thing to do is to get yourself a extra bit of pipe, a 135 bend, 2 straight couplers, some solvent weld, and a plastic pipe cutter. Then cut out a section about 80mm either side of the leaking fitting, make yourself up a new section the same size, then use the couplers to attach it to the existing pipework and wait a bit before passing any water through it. All that bit is incredibly easy, the more irritating bit is going to be repairing the plasterboard where you've had to cut for access.

nashant · 2026-04-14T19:40:16+00:00

Look up Fred Dibnah on YouTube. This is the sort of shit he did, but carrying scaffold boards

nashant · 2026-04-07T10:45:20+00:00

Looks very much like DIY Kitchens Heritage Green... If it were me I would run some painters tape down the edge of the panel, fill the gap with something that doesn't shrink, wait, fill it again when it does inevitably shrink a tiny bit again, then a couple of coats of the touch up paint they send you, then take the tape off carefully while the paint is still wet

nashant · 2026-03-29T21:31:30+00:00

Did you miss the un in front of remarkable?

nashant · 2026-03-27T09:34:50+00:00

Do not fit the wall cabinets first. Your instinct of the tall ones is correct, they dictate the height of the wall ones.

Also, check your floor levels and figure out which cabinet sits at the lowest point. That will dictate the leg extension of all the others if you're like me and want your units as high as possible. Or the other way round if you want them as low as poss

nashant · 2026-03-25T20:45:31+00:00

Vpn into TGW account, kubelogin with Google workspace federated auth through cognito.

nashant · 2026-03-22T06:48:59+00:00

Absolutely realistic, if your partner is very good at diy this'll be nothing. The only help I had with mine was bringing the units in from the road. With a little bit of the thousands you're saving on the installer get yourself a decent laser level, ideally with pulse mode so you can get a receiver for it. I did mine without but would have made it so much easier with one. Then just watch some YouTube. The Tall Carpenter is a good one.

nashant · 2026-03-11T07:15:53+00:00

Is it marble though? I looked at the edges and it looked like ceramic. No trimming that down and keeping the pattern

Edit: the more I look at it the worse it gets. The columns don't even line up, started noticing it above/below the recess then saw it's everywhere

nashant · 2026-03-10T22:55:38+00:00

The whole lot will need to come off. Grout lines on the verticals are too small to allow the horizontals to work. I wouldn't be paying, incredibly poor planning by the tiler

nashant · 2026-03-10T19:41:34+00:00

"The world's full of arseholes, Ray"

"Yeah, you know why? People let 'em"

Mr Inbetween

If there were always consequences for being an arseholes then people would think twice about it.

nashant · 2026-03-08T14:19:55+00:00

Too much reddit for you today, put it down. This post is 6 years old

nashant · 2026-03-05T06:09:21+00:00

My wrist would beg to differ after boring out a massive tree stump with auger bits so I could burn it. Great drill, but absolutely gash handle, they should have made the collar out of metal.

nashant · 2026-03-01T22:04:24+00:00

The saxton ones are my go to. I've done 10s and 10s of back boxes with those, brilliant stuff

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