janedavitt

Man just came out, this one very nice, and yay, the stove misbehaved for him too :-) It seems it's triggered when more than one top burner is on which is why it felt as if it was intermittent as mostly we were just using one with no problem. They will be replacing the control panel over the next few days and if that doesn't work, a new oven.

I have a sink and a dishwasher again! ::happy dance:; We just need to:

have the underlay put back in the computer room where the water went in
install the hood over the oven
put glass in the cabinet
tile over the countertop areas and behind the oven

Here're two more photos, taken before sink, but I'm on my way out for coffee so no time to do more. Wish me luck on the roll up the rim :-))

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First coat of paint is going on the walls and the cabinets are being brought in as the man is painting... it feels like I'm in the middle of Restaurant Makeover or something!

This is the new colour, although it's getting another two coats as the green is still showing through.



More updates later... back to trying to write through the noise of banging and dust being vacuumed up. And recovering from the panic as the painter arrived and said he'd been told the cabinets had no back to them so he had to paint more than he expected to which we both went 'huh?'. I want backs! Sheesh.

But no worries. I can haz backs, it seems :-))

Heh, before we moved everything out at the weekend, I had the bright idea of cleaning each appliance to within an inch of its life, so all would be sparkly clean when it went back in. So one of the appliances was the coffee maker. In a spirit of helpfulness, David looked up how to clean them online as we'd lost the instructions and just had a vague memory of vinegar being involved but not the proportions.

Wow.

If there's a Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to Coffee Makers, we're on their hit-list, I tell you.

Everything you SHOULD do (clean monthly...) we weren't doing. Everything you SHOULDN'T do (fill it using the carafe, put carafe in the dishwasher, not clean out the bean grinder really, really well) we were gleefully, happily, merrily doing.

So, just for the hell of it, we did it exactly right. We ran the vinegar/water through and marveled at the muddy coffee it made. We ran clean water through until the filter didn't show anything. We cleaned the carafe with ice cubes, rock salt, and lemon juice. We got the grinder free of every fleck of bean.

And we made a pot of coffee.

Tasted pretty much like coffee...

Current state of the kitchen...