Kitchen improvements update

On the weekend we installed the range hood we bought last week, in preparation for the electrician today and the gas fitter tomorrow coming to install the stove. A job that we hoped to take only Saturday morning, but ended up taking all of Saturday and most of the free time we have on Sunday.

The worst part was installing the ducting kit up through the roof and out the eave. Because we have a low pitch roof and the ducting is made of semi ridged material (think aluminium pie trays, but in the shape of a 150mm wide tube), we had to try and squish it through a gap in the roof framing a bit smaller than 150mm without ripping any holes in it. After one end starting to unravel like a role of sticky tape and then putting a couple of holes in it, I ventured in the the roof cavity to help guide it through without any more damage (we were fast running out of ducting length and couldn't afford any more wastage)! It was the first time I'd been up in the roof since installing the insulation.

We also needed to paint the wall, painting over the gap where the old range hood had been. We also took the opportunity to do the 2nd coat on the whole section of the wall there where the oven and freezer normally live (Peter only put one coat on when he painted the kitchen walls last September).

Peter did get a new tool! A 'Wallboard saw'...to cut the holes in the ceiling and eave (and would have cut the section of the scotia out, if he hadn't already attacked it with a router and chisel).