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    That sounds like a great idea, I have sealed the grout but I can just imagine how they will look after the first spaghetti night! I need to mix some grout up and seal it as a sample and throw some Pro Heart at it to see what sticks!

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    Well we no longer have a “U” shaped kitchen. The new island bench will be around 2200mmx1200mm, I will be doing some shuffling of existing carcasses to cover cut tiles and adding shallow carcasses backing the existing ones due to the bench top being widened from the existing 900mm. The extra carcasses will also add to the lost storage in creating the island.
    I have had the electrician in to quote and he is happy with what I have done in preparation for him to wire the oven.
    I will be adding an additional carcass to the left of the dishwasher and the new bench top will extend over this.
    I have this coming week off so I can get stuck into it all for a while.
    The only issue I have is a mismatch in the existing tiling, as I mentioned earlier in this thread, cabinets were installed prior to the tiles. Why the cabinet maker installs prior to the tiler coming in just baffles me and it surely makes the tilers job a lot harder than it needs to be. A cabinet can be levelled over a tiled floor just the same as a concrete floor with four adjustable legs.
    I will have to hope and pray that I can get the tiles to look ok once I have finished.








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    The remaining three carcasses have been built for the kitchen. I still have three narrow ones 240mm wide to finish off for the seated side of the island bench, these will be for small hardly used items that just take up room in the pantry. I have glued up the extra 300mm to the 2400x900 panel that will be the island bench, the length will end up around 1900mm long x 1200mm wide. Aside from 30mm all round, the entire bench top will be supported by the carcasses and a pair of end panels that will be 70mm thick. Hard to get an idea of what I mean from my description, photos will follow. I wanted the seating side of the bench top to have support under it, the overhang will be 370mm. I have started spot filling the top with epoxy and (used!) coffee grinds. Only one or two of the voids are deep and go through to the under side. A bit of packaging tape stops the epoxy dripping out. These need to be filled in small doses with West Systems to avoid exothermal issues. Unfortunately it’s a slow process from this point, the end result is fantastic though.
    Here’s a pic of the bench top. I am going to need another pair of hands now it’s glued up, to flip it to do the underside.



    Oh, and the tiles turned out better than I expected too


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    The only way I'd make those tiles look that good is with Photoshop!
    Cheers, Bob the labrat

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    Haha, I know what you mean. I had to sacrifice two full tiles that were already there to get the whole lot to look ok. We had a total of 16 tiles left over from when the house was built and I managed to only use 16 of them! I was lucky!
    And yes the grout really is that dirty on the old tiles, I will get to that!

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    That tiling job is great. I'm doing my laundry at the moment and found the same thing, the tiles ended at the toe kick. Fortunately I didn't have to do anything with the floor tiles as the new cabinets are the same dimensions as the old ones. Lets hope my splashback tiling is half as good as your floor tiling.

    For cleaning the grout lines I found this type of brush to work really well. It's a lot of work on hands and knees still though. My floor grout is light grey but they were visibly cleaner after a good going over with tricleanium and hot water.

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    Thanks, the floor tiles look better than my splash back! I will get on my hand s and knees in due course and clean the grout, I have one of those brushes and your right they are great for grout cleaning!

    Due to reconfigurations of the kitchen I have had to enlarge the island bench to cover up some of the gaps to allow me to get away with the amount of tiles I had left over. We don’t have the money to redo the whole floor as well as the kitchen renovation. Would have loved to be able to rip up all of the tiles and replace with floating flooring of some sort, but then again it was bad enough pulling up the few tiles I did.

    The island bench is now cut to size and the epoxy filling has been sanded back, I missed a few cracks so I will get to them after this weekends trip to Geelong and back to pick up my kids for the week.

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    Got the first full seal coat of epoxy on the island bench top today, a few small hairline cracks that have shown up from this seal coat to fill up. I have taken some close up pictures of the results of the coffee grinds used for filling the gum veins and other knots to show you what it comes up like. The seal coat is rough which will need sanding back so bare that in mind when you look at the photos. Lots of little bubbles appear when the epoxy starts soaking in, it was around 20 degrees in the shed when I got this coat on which is a great temperature to be using the West Systems at.











    I really thought about cutting this piece out because I would have loved to be able to use it in a few ukulele necks, oh well.




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    Well the electrician and plumber turned up today to do their thing. All went well. Gas is now piped through to the cook top (bottled gas)
    The sparky fitted new power to the oven, a couple of new power points and some LED down lights. Then he run the original 6mm cable to the shed and added a sub board to give me a few more power points and a 15amp point for my new compressor. Happy days

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    I finally finished the island bench top, glad it’s now done as it has taken way too long to get it finished. Wet rubbed up to 2000 grit and buffed.
    Is it shiny enough?









    Now I have to make up side supports to attach to the sides of the carcasses and get this out of the shed so I can continue with the rest of the kitchen.

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    I bet you have all been thinking, when is he going to start on facing the carcasses? Well now is the time, here is one of the side panels for the island bench. It is 70mm thick and made up of a pine framed centre with mdf on both sides. I used a 12mm panel for the outside then cut “V” grooves in it using a jig I made up for the trim router, just marked out 80mm spacings and off I went. This is trimmed with 6mm mdf to form the “frame”. i have just put a bit of putty in the nail holes at the ends which will be sanded tomorrow.

    I have another of these to make for the other end of the island and one at 600mm depth for the end of the benches that contain the sink, dishwasher and cutlery drawers.
    All of this stuff needs to be primed and painted prior to install, I will get to that.




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    those look great. love the way you did them too
    I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds

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    The three shallow carcasses have been added to the island bench. These will be used for “occasional items” in the kitchen, so access from the seating side is not really an issue. I will have help tomorrow to move the bench top in and I hope to start spraying tomorrow too.


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    Very nice.

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    Thanks! I wanted to do more today but I have been a bit ill this last week so it’s taking longer than I want it to.

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