Is a phrase I dread hearing from my wife. She has no idea of the implications such a request can have.
But many retired men of my age have over time, learned all sorts of skills, as a case of financial necessity when we were much younger. They are no longer really required as we can, "get a man in," but that can bring it's own problems.
At the end of last year she decided she wanted another cupboard next to the one below on the small breakfast bar that's rarely used.
"I don't need a glass door."
The kitchen is fourteen years old. I did everything except fit the units. The firm that fitted them went bust ten years ago.
It was a case finding a firm who could make the door and drawer fronts, with the same profile and colour and some matching pelmet.
Then box in over the top.
Getting a wood yard to cut the laminate wasn't a problem and I did have some spare handles I'd hung on to, left by the kitchen fitters.
"It's not a big job."
I reluctantly agreed.
To be fair, it really wasn't a big job (but never let on).
Four years ago we went from from this.
To this, when when we had a new combi boiler.
She thought she'd get a new kitchen, I had different ideas, I made this.
No new kitchen, but a new fridge/freezer, as the old one packed up whilst I was doing the job.
I had to make a new tiled removable "L shaped" fillet, re-using the tiles I soaked off the old one, plus a few spares I had and make the bit of pelmet below the boiler removable, as the front of the boiler has to swing down for servicing.
I made her a thin cupboard for the appliance instruction books she can never find.
But many retired men of my age have over time, learned all sorts of skills, as a case of financial necessity when we were much younger. They are no longer really required as we can, "get a man in," but that can bring it's own problems.
At the end of last year she decided she wanted another cupboard next to the one below on the small breakfast bar that's rarely used.
"I don't need a glass door."
The kitchen is fourteen years old. I did everything except fit the units. The firm that fitted them went bust ten years ago.
It was a case finding a firm who could make the door and drawer fronts, with the same profile and colour and some matching pelmet.
Then box in over the top.
Getting a wood yard to cut the laminate wasn't a problem and I did have some spare handles I'd hung on to, left by the kitchen fitters.
"It's not a big job."
I reluctantly agreed.
To be fair, it really wasn't a big job (but never let on).
Four years ago we went from from this.
To this, when when we had a new combi boiler.
She thought she'd get a new kitchen, I had different ideas, I made this.
No new kitchen, but a new fridge/freezer, as the old one packed up whilst I was doing the job.
I had to make a new tiled removable "L shaped" fillet, re-using the tiles I soaked off the old one, plus a few spares I had and make the bit of pelmet below the boiler removable, as the front of the boiler has to swing down for servicing.
I made her a thin cupboard for the appliance instruction books she can never find.
