Today started off with a visit from Mitchell, the cabinet maker for a chat and measure up.

He was happy with all I want and can’t see anything wrong with any of it.  He will now go away and do proper drawings and a quote.

His timeline is approx 6-7 weeks, so I should have my brand new kitchen in the middle of October YAY!!

After Mitchell left, I set to moving the fridge away so I could get the pantry shelves out ready to pull them apart.  I knew the unit was free standing and that it should not be too difficult as long as I took it slow and methodical.

The pantry unit needs to be dismantled ready for the builder to come on Friday.  He is going to run new electric cabling and the line he needs currently resides on the wall behind the pantry.

Moving the fridge, of course meant mopping the floor beneath the fridge.  I know there are some people out there who move the fridge and clean the floor under it regularly…I am not one of them 🙂

The pantry did slide out pretty easily, and I was able to dismantle it one shelf at a time.  I decided to start from. the top and worked my way down.  I used the shelf support we had to stop the shelves from dropping as I undid the screws.

It all worked well.

Once I had removed the top couple of shelves, I ran a ring of packing tape around the unit and that stopped the sides falling away as I kept going with each shelf.

All up, it took me just over 30 minutes to go from a pantry unit to a stack of boards and a container of screws 🙂

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