TrimTheKing
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So SWMBO had ordered a new backsplash/splashback (not sure which is the correct vernacular) a couple of weeks ago and I finally got the mojo to fit it at the weekend.
Please excuse the photo's as they were taken with my phone as camera battery was deed as a deed thing.
Here's how it arrived, all packaged up wrapped in bubble wrap and sandwiched between two 4" thick slabs of polystyrene. It's a sheet of 1.5mm stainless steel folded around an 8mm sheet of MDF and welded at the corners.
You may remember I was asking about cookers before christmas and after checking around we got a great deal on a showroom model Viking £3k rather than £6.5k. The previous cooker was slightly taller than the new one at the back hence the unpainted bit (lazy I know!!!
)
Laid out face down on the oven
Although it was only thin MDF and didn;t weigh too much I didn't trust me and a very pregnant SWMBO to be able to safely lean far enough to be able to hold it in place until the glue went off. Decided to pull out the whole unit about 18" which was easier said than done as it's sandwiched between the marble at either side with about 1mm clearance at each side :shock:
Fitted a batten to the wall after measuring about 5 times (I have a real measuring issue, no matter how many times I do it I still manage to balls it up ). Managed to get it right this time but leaning over to get the screws in was tough.
Roughed up a few keys on the back, few dabs of hot melt glue and quickly up into position on the batten then as much pressure as possible from me and SWMBO with curved cauls across the width (no pics of this bit for obvious reasons)
Finally, peeled off the protective plastic, screw on the magnetic knife block and push the big sucker back into place and job's a guddun.
About an hours leisurely work.
Please excuse the photo's as they were taken with my phone as camera battery was deed as a deed thing.
Here's how it arrived, all packaged up wrapped in bubble wrap and sandwiched between two 4" thick slabs of polystyrene. It's a sheet of 1.5mm stainless steel folded around an 8mm sheet of MDF and welded at the corners.
You may remember I was asking about cookers before christmas and after checking around we got a great deal on a showroom model Viking £3k rather than £6.5k. The previous cooker was slightly taller than the new one at the back hence the unpainted bit (lazy I know!!!
)Laid out face down on the oven
Although it was only thin MDF and didn;t weigh too much I didn't trust me and a very pregnant SWMBO to be able to safely lean far enough to be able to hold it in place until the glue went off. Decided to pull out the whole unit about 18" which was easier said than done as it's sandwiched between the marble at either side with about 1mm clearance at each side :shock:
Fitted a batten to the wall after measuring about 5 times (I have a real measuring issue, no matter how many times I do it I still manage to balls it up
). Managed to get it right this time but leaning over to get the screws in was tough.
Roughed up a few keys on the back, few dabs of hot melt glue and quickly up into position on the batten then as much pressure as possible from me and SWMBO with curved cauls across the width (no pics of this bit for obvious reasons)
Finally, peeled off the protective plastic, screw on the magnetic knife block and push the big sucker back into place and job's a guddun.
About an hours leisurely work.
