Demolition

Today the action began in earnest. John, our project manager who also coordinated the bathroom renovation, arrived at 10am. Firstly we cleared out the kitchen putting all the crockery, food, saucepans and whatnot into 20 Officeworks archive boxes. The plumber, Shane, then arrived to turn off the gas and disconnet the dishwsher and sink. After removing the worst designed sink known to man or beast and horrible gas leaky cooktop, John got stuck into ripping the cupboards apart. Mainly with his bare hands - chipboard flew in all directions. David transported the pieces to the skip or sawed then down to size to fit and I packed the kitchen stuff up into the boxes and stacked them. Once the cupboards were removed it was time to chip off the tiles and peel off any left over lino on the floor. Then it was time to clean up and for David to soak in a hot bath to rest his weary body.

Pictures include the pile of appliances we've had in the living room for a month or so - oven, cooktop, sink, lights, taps . . . Also picture of the kitchen stuff packed into boxes and the rest are self explanatory.