Kitchen fit: Day 4

After the "excitement" of the previous night, the first order of business yesterday morning was to ask the fitters to shove some spare bubble wrap into the ducting hole to prevent a repeat visit from kitteh.

Luckily, one of them remembered just as they were leaving at 4pm!

The rest of the day was taken up with de-boxing and positioning three of the appliances - washing machine, drier and dishwasher - packing the bases and fitting the tops that will carry the granite worktops, in preparation for the granite "templating" that was scheduled for today.

Once this was done, the guys filled in their time with detailed work like filling the gaps at the sides of the cupboard with carefully scribed panel sections to match the carcases.

The "granite men" arrived today and for some reason I was expecting the templating procedure to be very hi-tech and involve laser measuring equipment and computerised drafting of the worktop areas.

No.

Strips of 4mm MDF, cut to size and glued together to form a kind of latticework representation of the surface area. I kid you not. I guess, although it LOOKS a bit Heath Robinson, it's actually the quickest, cheapest and most accurate way of representing a space, when that representation has to be millimetre-perfect to avoid a very expensive mistake.

Anyway, we didn't hang around to see the finished article as we had a wedding to get to, so here's how the kitchen looked at close of play yesterday (Day 4). You'll have to wait for Friday's progress until we're back from our keenly anticipated weekend in the company of friends.