WREN KITCHEN DAY TWO

Added: 2026-04-29

[00:00:06]Right, morning guys. So we are back at the uh Ren kitchen. The electricians have done their bit. So today we need to make good the walls.

[00:00:17]T some plaster around, get them tidied up, start building some flat packs. I have picked up after a lot of mcking about a new rodding eye for the for the waist for the soil pipe. So, we will cut that in today as well. Just a matter of moving the slip coupler up, unscrewing it, cutting the pipe, putting it in.

[00:00:36]That's a 10-minute job.

[00:00:39]Um, get the B, get the plastering done, and then potentially going to turn the water off.

[00:00:46]Might cap these pipes for now, just so we can plaster a bit easier.

[00:00:52]So, just cut them and cap them. And then when I'm ready, once the plastering's done, I can then reroute the pipe work down along along the floor line. As I said before, so yeah, I think we need to get stuck in.

[00:01:06]Um like to say thank you to everybody that um gave me their advice yesterday about the um press guns. Now I've actually just spent £1,000 on the uh one from Plumbing Direct. Um the zapper um I've had to buy obviously the 180 degree uh bit for it and the I bought the 15 mil bit for it as well cuz 15 mil will be the bulk of what I do and then later on if I need to or it comes a point where I need to buy the 22 mil one I can buy the 22 mil one. So hopefully I'll have that by the end of the week and we can get some plumbing done inside the cupboard. I'm still going to use solder and flux, but like I said, I want that for areas where a torch, a blow torch is not a good idea.

[00:01:58]Or if we're having issues with draining down, we can just quickly crimp pipes and it'll be a lot easier. But anyway, without further ado, I'm going to get on with the soil pipe and then I'm going to crack on with the plastering. Adam's bringing the tools in. While I'm doing that, I'm going to get him building flat pack furniture outside, building it all up so that we can bring them in as and when we need them. Let's get stuck in.

[00:02:23]So guys, there's no real secret to doing bonding. Just make sure your prep works key, which is like a good coat of SBR and then just get it on there and let it go off. And then you can play around with it. Okay guys, so we've done most of that wall now with the bonding. Now we're just going to do the window wall, which is the smallest bit.

[00:02:43]Not necessarily the hardest, but I will just go through what I'm doing. So, when I knock my bonding up, you can see it's quite thick. It's not just falling off the hook off the off me off me scoop.

[00:02:55]I'm only using a cheap ox trail. I do have a Marshall Town one. And what I'm doing is just literally getting on, not fighting about, just literally getting it on and skim the whole area cuz it's quite deep. And then we use a speed skim.

[00:03:13]to smooth it out once I'm ready. Try not to get it on too thick in places, but obviously we got some quite deep bits to sort out here. I may not have enough gear knocked up. I just knocked a little bit more up, but I might need more cuz it's quite deep.

[00:03:30]The bulk of this.

[00:03:32]Just literally beading it up.

[00:03:37]I say I'm not trying to get it perfect.

[00:03:40]Just getting it on there.

[00:03:43]Yeah, we're going to need more gear, which is annoying. I wasn't sure. I didn't want to put too much worse throwing a load of gear away.

[00:03:53]While that's like that, what I'm going to do is just scrape off using one of me speed skins. Go for me longer one in the corner.

[00:04:11]A side. That's the only downside.

[00:04:24]Sometimes it comes off better than others.

[00:04:32]This stuff out the way.

[00:04:37]This is rather bloody annoying.

[00:04:48]Not worried about crack getting in the in the mix cuz it's only bonding coat.

[00:04:58]Can always give it another coat if you need to just to fill up any voids. It's more about just getting it on the wall for the minute.

[00:05:07]The more you play with it, the harder it is.

[00:05:27]All right.

[00:06:08]I say the more you play with it and the more you look at it, the more you'll end up spending time on it, which is not what we're after here. We're just trying to get it somewhere flatish.

[00:06:21]I'm going to need knock a little bit more gear. I still got that bit of wall there to do. And I've got a couple of chases over there I need to sort out as well.

[00:06:30]What we do is then once we're happy with it and it's gone off a little bit, we can then uh give it another skim where needed. It is starting to go off in places already, but some of it's quite thick, so it's going to be quite a bit waiting around for that to go off, but it's going to look a much better when it's finished.

[00:06:49]So, what I'll do is in between waiting for this to dry, I will cut those pipes and put a temporary tap in somewhere, I will do the uh rotting eye on the soil pipe. But anyway, I'm going to knock up some more gear and then we'll come back to you. All right, we knocked up a bit more gear. Should have enough now to get that wall done and the rest of the chases hopefully.

[00:07:32]Where's my There it is. A medium speed skim.

[00:07:48]Is that bit looking nice?

[00:08:06]a bit here. I'm probably going to have to build out a bit more cuz I haven't got the wall to allow me to continue what it needs to be.

[00:08:28]Messy old job. I don't know how you guys do it. You plasterers keeping it all nice and clean.

[00:08:36]I've seen plasters that don't drop a bit.

[00:08:39]I'm not one of those guys. Design plaster.

[00:09:00]I'm probably going to leave it at that for now.

[00:09:08]Let that go off. And then it's going to need another skim once it's gone off a little bit.

[00:09:13]Otherwise, I'm just going to keep pulling it off the wall.

[00:09:20]That side's looking better already.

[00:09:25]If I get that side looking good, that side looking good with the existing walls, then I can bridge across the two easily enough.

[00:09:35]But yeah, the temptation to play with it is always there. Unfortunately, that's the one thing you've got to avoid. So, now that that's had a go, had a coat. I'm just going to do this little bit in the reveal here. And then I'm going to do the little chases over there and then we're going to do the rest of the bits.

[00:09:52]We'll have a tidy up. Get all the rubbish off the floor. Clean up all the mess. Clean myself up. So, we're not trapesing it everywhere.

[00:10:02]And then we can get on. There you go.

[00:10:04]It's your first coat of bonding. Some's going off, some's not. Obviously, where it's thinner, like these areas, it's pretty much ready to go over again. But where it was really deep in these deeper areas here and over there it needs another See that will need a bit more gear in it pumped in. So we let it go off quite hard and then we can scrape it and then we can face fill it again with a finer one and then it'll be ready for a coat of plaster.

[00:10:34]And then obviously over there we've patched in a bit there. Patched in around there. Patched in around there.

[00:10:42]So, I'm going to fit the rodding eye.

[00:10:46]Now, that was my bad. I completely forgot about it. I took it out and when I went to buy the materials, I forgot to buy a rodding eye. I could have bought one with a rodding eye that had the side inputs and everything and it would have been the same situation, but to be fair, I don't think I would have got it as low to the ground as we've got it there. So, I mean, it is what it is. It's not the end of the world. But anyway, let's get that cut out. The client knows the water's going off, so we're going to get that cut out. And then I might do the pipe work for the hot and cold. Get that adjusted. I'll have to label which one's which. Get that into the tight into the corner to try and get that a bit more into the corner. I can't take it away completely.

[00:11:27]Even though I need to plaster that area, not quite sure best way to go about it really because I might just fill loads of buckets of water up. We got plenty of buckets. and then take those out because then I can still knock up me plaster.

[00:11:42]And then we can run the pipe work down and because I want to come nice and tight in that corner down as low as possible on the floor and then back up inside the uh sink unit so that the washing machine can go back and everything else. That's the plan anyway.

[00:12:00]I'm hoping to have my new press fit gun by the end of the week, but we obviously as it is for now, we got to do solar joints and everything like that. So, not the end of the world. Let's get stuck in. Okay, soil pipe is done and we've just made a start on getting the copper up. So, what we've done so far, we've just cut back in. Now, we've got a nice rodding eye in that's glued and push fit as well. And then we've done couple of bends here and connected up there. I don't know if you can see that, but I've got a couple do a couple of push fits cuz I want to get as much old copper out as possible.

[00:12:38]So, I've done a couple of straight couplers there. Marked my hot pipe, which is that one, cuz that'll be the top pipe.

[00:12:47]So, now we got to do now is come down.

[00:12:49]The reason I've not done that all in one piece and put a bend. There's going to be a coupler somewhere anyway cuz you've only got those two lengths left. So, it's easier for me and less waste to do a couple of there, then I can minimize my waste on my bends. Cuz if I try and do that in one go and a bend, I guarantee you I'll get it wrong. I'm not good enough for that. I openly admit it.

[00:13:14]So, we can now put another pipe clip down there and then do our bends so that they come along. And then we can then extend them to wherever we need to go.

[00:13:22]We need to mark out the wall for the unit so we know exactly what's what.

[00:13:26]Then I need to drill out for the outside tap and I'll probably get the outside tap connected in as much as possible so that we've got an outside water source so we don't have to keep coming and trying to get it from here. But anyway, we'll figure that bit out. Let's get this copper. side for me to do my bends. Now, as I just said, I want them as low to the floor as possible. Just adjust the camera a bit more. Yeah. So, you want them down here as low as possible. So, I'm just going to get these cables out the way cuz we don't want to damage them.

[00:13:59]So, so let's take a measurement. So, this is our hot, which is going to be our top pipe. Then our cold will be our lower pipe. Now, this one probably be a straight bend, whereas this one will have to have a very slight kick on it to come back in.

[00:14:18]So, we want that at the top. I'm going to cut it. I'm going to go down to the floor and I'm going to make my bend at bottom of bend 54 or 540.

[00:14:32]So, I'm going to measure from top me pipe 540.

[00:14:41]So that is where I want the end of my bend. So if you look if you work it like that's end of bend. You can roll it back and hook it on.

[00:14:53]You get it roughly in place. There are metal ways of doing it. I'm not a professional plumber. I only do what I need to do to get by.

[00:15:02]Actually helps if I have the pipe around the right way. So you can actually There's me mark. You can actually put it so that your mark sits on that corner which is how I should have done it. So that's my pencil mark sitting in line with that. So that's bottom of bend. So now when I bend this, it should still need a minor trim cuz that is to the floor as I said it would be, but we don't actually want it to the floor a bit more. But anyway, so I've coupled that. Yeah, it needs to come off a little bit. So we're going to put some clips on the wall and then we can clip that. Trim this to the right height. And then we can do the same with the cold.

[00:15:48]So pipe clips.

[00:15:52]First job, finish clipping it to the wall up the top there. Good thing about these clips I use that they actually interlock with each other. And I'm anal. I like to get them all around the same way. So they clip together like that. And we're literally going to put one here like that.

[00:16:12]And then I can do a mark where it's got to go.

[00:16:18]Uh, so do a little mark where I need me drill a hole.

[00:16:41]screw gun up there.

[00:16:44]And I'm only going to screw it in temporarily. I will actually unscrew these cuz obviously don't want it.

[00:16:55]Only while I dry fit. This is just for dry fitting purposes.

[00:17:01]Now I want two more.

[00:17:04]One, two. Actually, you need more than that. Three.

[00:17:09]Four at least.

[00:17:12]What we're going to do, because we know we got cables running on the floor as well, we need a little space underneath.

[00:17:19]So, I'm going to use the lid of my raw plugs and put that on the floor like so.

[00:17:28]Clip me pipes together. And then I'm going to put that clip there. And that will give me the height I want so that I can get the cables underneath it. Drill.

[00:17:42]Drill that one.

[00:17:57]Plug.

[00:17:59]Screw gun.

[00:18:18]And then I can do another one.

[00:18:21]Exactly the same principle over here.

[00:18:32]I need to measure out where the sink's going to be, which is the thing I need to do now. Bear with me while I find the plans, guys. Okay, so according to the plans, we've got 570 to the dishwasher, 72 mil, and then we got our units, which are there, which is not telling me a hell of a lot, but I know that's 600.

[00:18:53]So, that helps me determine where that's going to go. So if I do me 570 and me 750.

[00:19:02]So off the wall 570 which is there.

[00:19:10]And then we got 75 mil which is there.

[00:19:14]Dishwasher 600 which is right there.

[00:19:20]So it's back roughly back where it was before.

[00:19:24]And then my sink unit is going to be a 500 unfortunately.

[00:19:32]So you've only got 500 in here to play with.

[00:19:37]And we got 600.

[00:19:40]Of course, it's quite tight to be fair.

[00:19:45]Whip these old brackets off.

[00:19:50]All right. So, now that we know we're 500 there, we can now mark it at 25, which is our center is there.

[00:20:06]That's going to be center of. So, I can bring my hot and cold up there. So, now I know I can bring this across a bit more.

[00:20:14]Do exactly the same again.

[00:20:17]Mark up where we want to put our clips. Drill.

[00:20:44]Luckily, we not got integrated appliances. So, and that is actually the dishwasher. So, cuz it's the dishwasher, we know for a fact we're going to get a bit of a void like that underneath it easily from the feet being raised up. So, having the pipes that low, we got no issues with any with pipes. If it was a washing machine, it'd be a different story. But, as they put their dishwasher there, perfect.

[00:21:11]So, we'll get rid of the plans for a minute. Now we can knock it out with this. So we're going to have hot is going to be sat in there like so.

[00:21:26]Now I know what height I need to cut that.

[00:21:29]Sorry me somewhere around that's a pen. I'm going to mark it with a pen. I need to cut just about 40 mil off that end.

[00:21:57]If I can find what I've done with me pipe slice.

[00:22:03]Where's that gone?

[00:22:06]It's up there in the window sill.

[00:22:29]All right. Pipe cleaner.

[00:22:50]Always clean your pipes even if they are new cuz if you get a bit of oil or anything like that on them it can it can have an effect.

[00:23:16]So coupler over there. Where is my couplers?

[00:23:23]They are sticker on there. Our coupler on there.

[00:23:38]Slide a pipe in there.

[00:23:42]Something like so.

[00:23:49]Solder it up.

[00:23:54]And there's no water in the pipe, so we don't need a massive flame.

[00:24:29]Little bit of flux just to encourage the roll. Flick that bit off.

[00:24:35]Where's me spray bottle? There it is behind there. Give that a squirts.

[00:24:46]And we got to do something similar now with the cold. But obviously with the cold, we got to do a very slight kick on it, which is going to be interesting.

[00:24:56]Not quite sure how I'm going to do that to be honest with you.

[00:25:00]I need to have a think about that one.

[00:25:04]I do a little and then a bend. Yeah, I know what I'm going to do. I know what I'm going to do. So again, from the floor to bottom bend is going to be that much.

[00:25:20]So that's the bottom of me bend again.

[00:25:25]Put bottom of bend there.

[00:25:31]Give it a bend. I've just ordered a new set of pipe benders. 22 mil ones.

[00:25:36]Monument as well. £109 I've picked up.

[00:25:40]was quite cheap. Free postage.

[00:25:48]Right. So, that's that one. And then what we're going to do next is I'll get me head around this now cuz I need it to bend that way first to give me the little kick I need.

[00:26:04]Making sure that we are somewhat parallel. Give it a little one of them and then a little one back.

[00:26:18]He says hopefully that's enough to give us our kick. So when that's in the wall, it comes down, bends, and then kicks in.

[00:26:40]So we'll find out in a second, won't we?

[00:26:43]Clipping that in there like so.

[00:26:48]that in there like so.

[00:26:53]Want to cut it off at what do we want to cut it off at?

[00:26:58]Somewhere about there, I think.

[00:27:02]Yeah.

[00:27:04]I wipe you off there.

[00:27:30]Pipe clean.

[00:27:39]Bit of flux.

[00:27:46]Flax coupler.

[00:28:01]Clip that in there. Clip that in there.

[00:28:07]Haven't clipped me bracket.

[00:28:20]Looks pretty good to me.

[00:28:24]I'll give you a closeup in a bit. Just get these torched up.

[00:28:53]Adam, >> can you go and find me some pipe cleaners?

[00:28:58]I don't know where they are.

[00:29:02]Get those connections cleaned up. What I am going to do is get another couple of clips.

[00:29:09]One.

[00:29:11]Two. Have to get some more of them.

[00:29:15]And I'm literally going to put these down the bottom here just to act as a spacer. More than anything else. That's it.

[00:29:30]That just then keeps everything all nice and tidy.

[00:29:37]And there we go.

[00:29:40]Give you a little closeup. So, as you know, coming out the wall all clipped up. I've got to clean the connections up. But then you can see my little kick when it comes out and then sweeps back in so that it goes into the clips. And then we will put another clip here at some point which will then pull it all back in place. So all we got to do now come along there another bend up there and then we got to work out where we're going to put our outside tap. What I might do for now is just bring them up, bring them into the cabinet, drill out for our outside tap, and do a temporary flexi hose connection on the cold and a solder a stop end on the hot.

[00:30:30]Happy days. Let's get it done.

[00:30:35]So, just going to finish the pipe work off. Then that'll be the pipe work all finished and ready to go. Go, >> guys. That's our hot and our cold. We soldered an end cap on the hot. And then what we're going to do is in a minute we're going to drill through from the outside. We're going to mount an outside tap. We're going to bring it through and we're going to do a temporary connection from the on this one to our outside tap so that we can have water outside and we don't end up running the risk of damaging the cabinets. And we can just undo these when I'm putting the cabinets in and out. That means I can carry on doing me plastering. But in the meantime, I've got to go down the road cuz this stop tap doesn't shut off. Now, I'm hoping that this is just standard 22 mil pipe and we just get a 22 mil mains tap and just unbolt that and bolt a nice new one in. So, I've got got to do some checks on that and make sure we got the right one. It will be 22 mil, but it might be that I have to change the olive, which I have got the olives for that. So, I'm going to go get a lever valve one, I think, and we'll have it on its side. remove this so it's facing downwards and we'll have it on its side so it's easier to turn on and off inside the cabinet. All right guys, so this is for the outside tap. It's already prefinished. All I got to do is mount the tap which I'm going to do with PTFE and then I can put it through the wall and mark my holes. So first things first is get it PTFED up. Again, remember always winding in the direction that you would screw it in. That way you don't unwind the PTFE.

[00:32:06]And again, don't be shy with it.

[00:32:10]This this is something the client asked us to do as a bit of an extra so they don't have to keep running hose pipes from the kitchen sink.

[00:32:20]So for what I'm already here doing the plumbing anyway. So for what it's going to take just to add an outside tap while I'm while I'm here. It's minor.

[00:32:31]Okay.

[00:32:42]vice like grip as they say.

[00:32:48]Right.

[00:32:55]Right. Sorted. That's that nice and tight. Pull off that excess PTFE. All I got to do now is drill me hole from the outside.

[00:33:04]Mark up me three holes, screw it to the wall, and then do a temporary connection in here, guys. So, we drilled a hole through the wall. We just going to quickly test fit the pipe. Goes through.

[00:33:14]All right.

[00:33:18]Yep. It's a little bit tight. I'm going make it a bit bigger by putting the drill in and out a little bit. But what I am going to do to protect the copper, I'm going to put some gaffer tape on the pipe.

[00:33:33]just to give the pipe a bit of anti so that the cement doesn't have a nasty effect on it. Okay, so that's that. Wrap it round.

[00:34:02]That's it. Just going to make the hole a little bit bigger if I make it so we don't make it too tight.

[00:34:18]Insert our pipe like so.

[00:34:22]Just like that.

[00:34:25]And we've got a nice outside taps. All I got to do now is mark the three holes and secure it to the wall. Right, so plumbing is now done and dusted. Happy days. New mains stop tap or lever valve in this case. So we've put a nice new lever valve in down. So we can easily shut water on and off now. Was 22 mil pipe. So that's good. So we can now I was going to clip them back in but clips are knackered but anyway. So that's now done.

[00:35:00]Obviously coming down from the ceiling, hot and cold along the floor up. We've put a temporary connection in for the outside tap so we can use water outside so we're not causing water in here. Got a non- returnturn valve here. For those of you wondering, that's the outside of our cabinet. But for those of you wondering why we went outside the cabinet, I'll show you why. I wanted the outside tap above that drain. There's a drain there.

[00:35:28]So, so we can now use the outside tap without any issues. Happy days. And we got a drain down.

[00:35:39]So, that's perfect.

[00:35:41]So, we got a good tidy up in here now.

[00:35:43]Get rid of all the plumbing gear. Make some space. And then we're going to sort out the walls. Give them another goat.

[00:35:48]Give them a skim. Let's crack on. A clean up. I've thrown some SBR around where the bonding's gone on the original walls. Cleaned it all up. Scraped all the excess lumps off.

[00:36:01]And this is what we're left with.

[00:36:02]Looking much better now. Now we can give it a fine skim. So, we're going to skim the bulk of the areas just just cuz it's easier. I'm not going to go to the floor cuz obviously it's behind the units. But yeah, just going to throw a skimmer of plaster around it now and uh do what I can with it. See you in a bit. Okay, now it's the first coat of multi finish. So, we're just going to do this whole top section down below worktop level and then we're just going to blend it in on the window wall and the door wall. Makes it nice and easy.

[00:36:34]Okay, guys. So, it's had its first uh coat. We got to give it a hard trail now just to flatten it off. I like to use a spray bottle or you can use a paintbrush. Just give it a light one so you don't drag the plaster. And all you're trying to do is flatten it.

[00:37:04]Just like that. Not trying to do nothing special with it. Literally just flattening it out so that we can get another thin skim on top of it.

[00:37:30]This dry weather doesn't do me any favors cuz it goes off quicker than I'm used to.

[00:37:37]Fortunately, I'm not the fastest at this.

[00:37:57]All right, that's good enough.

[00:37:58]Flattened.

[00:38:00]Say you're not trying to go mad with it.

[00:38:09]It's purely just to flatten any ridges out.

[00:41:12]All right.

[00:41:14]That one might need another one. That one and that one are looking good. So, we can now knock another gauge up. Get another another another layer on.

[00:41:24]Happy days.

[00:41:27]Okay, so second coat of multi finish.

[00:41:29]Knock this up a little bit thinner so it doesn't go off so quick and we got more time to play with it. That's the second coat on. We're going to let that tack off a little bit and then we're flatten that out and then a couple of polishes and that's as good as I'm going to get it. We're getting there, guys. Right, plastered.

[00:41:49]I didn't film all of it cuz it was just too much. I needed to get it done. It's getting late. So, it's I reckon I've done a good job of it.

[00:41:58]So, it's all nicely plastered in there around there. Obviously, we got to cut out the sockets tomorrow when it's dry.

[00:42:06]All that's now plastered behind the units up to the wall. Obviously want to do new pipe work is in up there. Little bit in the windows. I got to tidy up that top edge there which I do with a multi tool. I'll cut that nice and then we put a new window board on there. There'll be a little bit of filling like on these corners cuz obviously without plastering the hard not here to plaster the entire room just making good where we've taken the tiles off. Obviously over there's done. I can't show you over there because obviously we got the units in. So Adam's been busy boy. He's built all these base units up for me outside. So they're all built. That is the corner unit. So that's where we will start potentially tomorrow. Start laying it out.

[00:42:50]Yeah. Happy days. New stopcock as I said, all new pipe work. So I'm just going to finish the shoes on as you can see.

[00:42:59]So I'm going to finish cleaning the floor. Adam's going to finish cleaning up outside. Get rid of those buckets and then we got to put a bit of weight on that. Give the deck in a sweep. Happy days.

[00:43:11]Not a bad bit of progress really considering it been a slow start to the week with the rip out and then waiting for the spark cuz I think we've done well. But that's us done for today guys.

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