I got heavily waylaid yesterday (There's the first excuse for not doing it when she said she would) ...
... First of all, whoever built our kitchen installed the sink first, then built the cupboard to box off the pipework (and there's the normal method of pre-empting a delay - blame someone else) ...
... So... I wander off, have a ciggie.... go back, have another look (Yep, she's learning - an early ciggie break) ...
... So out comes the jig saw..... off comes that part of the plinth (Brute force - that'll do it) ...
... the spanner is too long & I can't get the angle on it without breaking the kitchen window.... ok, change to the adjustable spanner & battle with a 2 inch gap. Each turn of the spanner moves the nut about one eighth of a turn & is like pulling teeth.... I'm scraping my wrist with each turn (Workmen and tools, you know) ...
... except the copper pipe going into the new tape is about 3mm too long & the olive is too far down (Julie learns to measure first).
... He grumbled that to 'do it properly', I should have taken out the cupboards, that's why he's been putting the job off, then we could have painted while the cupboards were out, and really it should have been a 4 day job doing other bits & bobs in the kitchen as well (Sounds par for the course for an OH).
Yep - all in all, that all looks just the way a man would do it
(Seriously, though - well done Julie)
Mike
(thanks)
Maybe you could start selling them oven ready?