Vinyl wrap? What, for my funeral? No, I'm going with the cardboard coffin and the woodland site, the one where they plant a tree over you, keep the animals off it and in years to come it turns into a wood, or at least a field with trees.
Kitchen cabinets
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GruntPuppy
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Yeah, my uncle did that, he went with a wicker coffin but that's about it.
Wicker coffin is a good idea. Me, I'd go with a hessian sack but it would upset the natives. I think it's the Muslims who bury their dead without coffins, just a plain white shroud, which seems like an eco friendly thing to do. I'd sign up for that. There's a woodland place in the Yorks Dales, views of Ingleborough. I'd take that before being stuck in a churchyard.
GruntPuppy
pfm Member
I could probably save a whale if they recycled the blubber.
Derek Wright
pfm Member
donate the cadaver to the local medical school
Helen Bach
if it ain't Baroque ...
back to the kitchen!
We are having a completely new kitchen, designed by me, made and installed by a joiner, who happens to be my nephew! Resin double sink and all ash tops. I have been cooking (domestically and the odd 'do') since I was 18, and estimate I have made 18,000 meals in that time. I think I know what a kitchen layout should be, but I have had to work in some really poor ones. Even one where the cooker/range (6 ring/two ovens) was eight feet from the nearest work top, and I had to prepare food for 60! Fortunately only the main course and the (real) custard.
We are having a completely new kitchen, designed by me, made and installed by a joiner, who happens to be my nephew! Resin double sink and all ash tops. I have been cooking (domestically and the odd 'do') since I was 18, and estimate I have made 18,000 meals in that time. I think I know what a kitchen layout should be, but I have had to work in some really poor ones. Even one where the cooker/range (6 ring/two ovens) was eight feet from the nearest work top, and I had to prepare food for 60! Fortunately only the main course and the (real) custard.
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
My parents had Poggenpohl cabinets of the 1980s generation, and in about 2015 they tried to get one of the door replacement companies (in fact several quoted), and in the end replacement doors were prohibitively expensive, and some of their Poggenpohl drawer fronts and cupboard doors were non standard sizes. It was going to cost about £4k for the doors, drawers and infield plus more of replacement work surfaces......so they decided a new kitchen was better value
cutting42
Arrived at B4 Hacker Ergo
Whatever you do don't get a lovely nice glossy black glittery silestone worktop.
Expensive and looks lovely but shows every, and I mean every, handmark, thumbprint, grease spot etc.. a nightmare to keep looking good.
I realised I'd f****d up the day after it was fitted
Likewise, although we inherited it with the house. Looked amazing on the first day but as you say a nightmare to keep clean
GruntPuppy
pfm Member
I think they have standards, and only take certain species
hifinutt
hifinutt
i have used Howdens kitchens a few times , they are ready assembled that saves times and pretty good cabinets . Its interesting to go into a WREN showroom and you will see all the makes on display to compare against the other makes
Recently used B&Q cabinets which are rediculously cheap and not too bad but certainly not the best
magnet are still very much in business and i can imagine they are superb
Recently used B&Q cabinets which are rediculously cheap and not too bad but certainly not the best
magnet are still very much in business and i can imagine they are superb
Mike Reed
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Allow the public what? Entry to view stock? They certainly did 4 years ago as I visited two branches a number of times to look at their display areas. I'd be surprised if that'd changed. My friend fitted a kitchen earlier in the year and got it from Howdens direct (with 'discount') and he's nothing to do with the trade.
Mind you, he could have fiddled it somehow; not difficult as it's all business to a thriving company.
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Bob McC
Living the life of Riley
Two months ago I was refitting my daughter’s flat.
we wanted a type of cabinet size only available at Howdens.
I phoned up asking if they would supply me. They said no problem. I went down and picked it up. No trade card needed.
A friend in Cornwall chose her Howdens kitchen in person at the warehouse, no tradesmen involved. Went back and forth changing things no problem. In my experience these trade only suppliers will deal with anyone.
we wanted a type of cabinet size only available at Howdens.
I phoned up asking if they would supply me. They said no problem. I went down and picked it up. No trade card needed.
A friend in Cornwall chose her Howdens kitchen in person at the warehouse, no tradesmen involved. Went back and forth changing things no problem. In my experience these trade only suppliers will deal with anyone.
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mandryka
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I bought a Howden's kitchen with granite work surfaces 20 years ago and it has worn very well, in fact I'm about to replace the doors, it could go on for longer I'm sure, but I have someone good ready to do the work and in London I've learned to grab that opportunity. Infive years I expect it will start to show too much wear.
Whether they will supply to you without a tradesman depends very much on whether the person you're dealing with feels like being cooperative for you.
Whether they will supply to you without a tradesman depends very much on whether the person you're dealing with feels like being cooperative for you.
I fit commercial kitchens for a living, which are all SS, are you sure you want it?
Bob McC
Living the life of Riley
unless you live in a house with the humidity of the Sahara desert avoid MDF like the plague!
mandryka
pfm Member
So chipboard is more moisture tolerant than MDF?
GruntPuppy
pfm Member
Chipboard will blow, given time. MDF will blow at the least provocation. A kitchen is no place for MDF, any place there's a seam in the covering is a potential problem.