One of our clients wanted a luxury country style kitchen for their 300 year old farmhouse in a village just outside of Driffield, East Yorkshire. This is a diary of how the work is progressing. Before work could commence we employed a structural engineer to advise on the placement of a steel beam and new lintels as we needed to remove some walls to accommodate the new kitchen layout.
From the start we were looking forward to this project. Day one of the project was to remove an old oil tank from the property which was once used for the central heating and then construct a new “old style” pantry. We had to get space for this from a section of the integral garage. A new concrete floor had to be laid and an opening made for a new doorway into the passageway which separated the garage from the old kitchen.
We then fitted steel props to support the kitchen ceiling and knocked through the opening from the kitchen side. After removing the old kitchen we set about removing a 5.5 m double brick wall and the kitchen ceiling. Very dusty work! New brickwork was put in and an opening made for new French doors leading from the kitchen to the conservatory.
Now was the time to rebuild a new stud wall to hide existing pipework, this is also the wall for the new double Belfast sink. All new electrical lighting/socket circuits and new gas supply for the Aga oven were the next stage of the project before we turned our attention to putting in the 6m steell beam specified by the structural engineer, wow that was hard work. New plumbing was then installed before we re-boarded the entire kitchen.
We then installed the feature timber mantle above the opening for the new Aga oven. The full room was plastered out and the new French doors fitted before the kitchen was painted. Next job was to screed the floor space and set out for the new travertine tiled floor. Wow this is going to look amazing.
