3.5 ton Luton on bio?

[therecklessengineer]

If you do need to replace them get them fitted by someone that will miter them properly, those metal joining strips look awful.

Agreed. The chap who did mine did it so well that you can barely see the join.

[Julian]

I've done quite a few worktops.  It's really not that difficult to get a good result if you have the right kit and do a lot of thinking before you do any cutting.  If you have a bash yourself, get some stuff called Colour Fill ... supposed to be an adhesive (but I'm not convinced of it's performance in this respect) and a filler.  It's available in all sorts of colours to match different surfaces.

Biggest problem lately is that manyworktops seem to be bowed back to front, and there's not an awful lot you can do about that.

[Tony]

 

It all fitted with a little help



The paperwork she gave us included the original quote - £9k 

Oven alone was £1344 so might have a go at fixing it... that said the oven housing was £300 and that's just a few sheets of laminated chipboard and some fittings...

[greasemonkey]

Tidy. Took me a moment to realise it was a lickle one sat in the back. Thought you'd gone and hired an artic.
So how much Diesel did it use?

Have you fitted it yet?

[Julian]

I want a sticker like that for my car.

[Rotary-Motion]

I want a sticker like that for my car.

 

[Chug]

Oooo, How can you run the van on diesel when pump diesel itself contains biodiesel?

[Tony]

So how much Diesel did it use?

Well we did about 240 miles (40 miles over the allowed 200 daily use but hopefully they won't notice and charge me 8p per mile on the extra).

We found a station selling derv at 138.9 and put in £45.  Not used to the price meter going faster than the litres meter, it's a bit scary.  So that was 32 litres.

Just before returning it, I noticed the fuel was a little lower than when I picked it up, so I glugged in about 4 litres of unknown diesel from a container in the shed that has sat there for about 5 years.  Didn't smell off and van seemed to run OK back to the hire place.

So I think 36 litres all in, 240 miles, which is approx 30mpg.  Which isn't bad considering I ragged it about the place like some kind of van racing driver and did 70mph on the motorway.

Realistically the fuel consumption is a little worse than that because the speedo over-read by about 10%, which is also bit of an arse because that potentially costs the hirer extra on any mileage over the daily allowance.

Have you fitted it yet?

At the moment it's in the back garden under a tarp (also sat on a tarp so not straight on the grass) - got to figure out where to put all the units and get the plumbing and electrics sorted.  I think it might be out there a little while yet.

[Tony]

If you do need to replace them get them fitted by someone that will miter them properly, those metal joining strips look awful.

Agreed. The chap who did mine did it so well that you can barely see the join.

With you on that - when we did our last kitchen I did everything (wiring - pre-part P), plumbing, plastering, tiling, the works - except for the surface joints which a carpenter did.  He did a fantastic job, even with a jig I doubt anything I could do would have looked seamless like he did.

For what we want here though I think we only need two strips on opposite walls, no joints - except perhaps if we can find a way to use the supplied corner unit on the end of a run - that will need a bit of thinking about.

[greasemonkey]

Not bad fuel consumption at all, considering a luton is about as aerodynamic as a house.

[Tony]

"Double oven was not working when kitchen dismantled but available if wanted."

Glad I took it - it's a gas oven and has a cooling fan to blow air around the case - it has a little pressure diaphragm (just like in a gas boiler) that measures the pressure differential between the inside of the case and the outside.  This stops the oven lighting if a) the case is removed b) the fan is blocked up with dust (it was!)

In addition the two knobs on the front that control the top and bottom parts of the oven, they have a little pot to set the gas mark number and the shafts have a cam arrangement that operate microswitches to get the microprocessor to open the gas valves.  But the left knob pot had a snapped mounting thread, so the PCB it was soldered to could move about a bit and the cams weren't engaging right.  So I drilled and tapped the steel case and a bit of the PCB that didn't have tracks across it and put a little bolt in to hold it steady.  Also filed the cam lobes out to not be so aggressive and put in some copper slip - now it works a treat - one rather swanky oven