28.12.2024 Whoops!

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  Saturday 28th 38F/3C.

 Up at 6.15 after another quiet night. Aching all over from yesterday's IKEA assembly.

 I will have to get an electrician to move the several sockets. Where the new oven cabinet will stand. Some came with the house. A new one is on a surface mounted box and will push the cabinet out by three inches or 75mm at an absolute minimum. While presenting a potential fire hazard by being immediately behind the oven itself. I had that one installed quite recently for the old fridge position. An oven wasn't even on the horizon at that point. Then I discarded lots of storage furniture and moved everything around. 

 Another major problem is the insertion height of the oven. The oven is 57cm high and the cabinet only 56cm from the top of the drawer front up to the inside of the top panel. The drawer itself is all fresh air behind the towering drawer front. So it is only the drawer front which is limiting oven access.

 Oh dear! I missed the specific instructions for the bottom drawer. So I had used the wrong holes [of three] in the quick release, click-lock, metal brackets. This lifted the drawer front by well over 1cm. Fortunately IKEA show how to dismantle the drawer at the end of the instructions. It took only a few minutes to correct the problem. The top slides could then be lowered to match the IKEA instructions. 

 8.10. Job done. Never assume. Check twice. I had to stand the cabinet on some scrap pieces of wood as feet. The drawers are now at their correct level and the clearance above the top drawer edge is 58cm high. As required by the oven.  

 Now I have to add the metal shelves and their support angles strips for the oven. This will help to stiffen the carcase. Since there is no other cross bracing without the supplied shelf. Which I did not plan to use. Which may well be another mistake on my part. Could it separate the drawers? It is shown as a support for the oven position in the instructions. For which duty I shall use the metal shelving. 

 There is no cross-bracing with the steel shelves. There is no attachment to the edge supports. Which suggests, to me at least, that I ought to use the white shelf for stiffness. Then just lay the steel shelving on top of the white shelf as long term, heat protection. 

 9.45 Oven shelf fitted. The oven case rests on plastic rails out near the bottom edges of the case. So the raised edges of the thin steel shelving won't affect the height or clearance. I had better make another shopping list for IKEA.  

 13.30 Back from IKEA. Strangely patchy mist on the way home.  

 The short strip light I bought yesterday is perfect for the bottom of the glass cabinet. I rested it on its side to flood the lower half of the cabinet. Without shining up into my eyes. The phone camera greatly exaggerates the brightness. I need to make a template. To mark the position of the LED spots under the top panel of the glass cabinet.  

 Now I have drilled the glass cabinet's top and bottom woodwork. To allow the IKEA plugs to just pass through. Making the wiring invisible. I may make a collar for the IKEA spots to avoid laterally spreading light. The next image shows an additional, experimental strip light in the centre facing down. To flood the centre section with light. I would have to drill the backboard to hide the cable. 

 I also bought some handles for the drawers of the oven cupboard. Which I think look the part. While avoiding any risk of catching my clothing if I brush past.

 Dinner was salmon pasty and chips. 10 minutes preheat at 250C. Then 20 minutes on a baking tray on the top shelf. 

 A severe storm is forecast for Denmark on New Year's Eve.

 

 

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