The joy of power tools

lots of potential puns for this title, but I settled for this one, just because it sums up how they have reduced the workload today.

First of all the doors were drilled and sawn to take the hinges, a hole cutting bit in a rechargeable drill making light work of it, then the doors were lined up and hinges screwed to the cupboards, again the trusty drill, with a screwdriver bit meant one hand could hold the door whilst the other drove in the screws. With the doors roughly fitted then came the slow task of making them hang correctly, not easy when the walls and consequently the cupboards are not perfectly true, but assisted by two piece hinges, meaning the doors could be simply adjusted, and pulled on and off, to be planed to match each other, with the power plane, obviously. The end result of My labours looking like this.

Don’t worry about the hinges showing, the doors are to be faced in a patterned board, which will cover them over nicely.

Next to address, the electrics, the single socket on the left is now a double socket, thanks to the hammer drill, without which that job alone would have taken all day.

Lights have also been installed under the side cupboards, the cables tidied away with the electric stapler.

Also the pelmet strips have been cut to size and test fitted, if you look carefully.

tomorrow the doors will come off again, to be clad and painted, the decorative strips will be fitted, and the battens for the blanking panels above the cupboards. And work will start on the drawers. It starts to feel as if we will soon be back to normal.