New Kitchen Installer

Hi All

First off, although it sounds a little “I’ve heard it before”, thanks for the forum, it seems to be a one off.

I am in the process of fitting a kitchen, brought from a certain Swedish retailer, the choice was mainly down to cost and non useage of constant sales.

To say ” I am in the process of fitting a kitchen” is maybe a little misleading, I’ve brought and assembled the carcasses…and then stopped, a little worried about it looking like

a cheap diy job.

Do I have certain questions, I hear you ask.

Well yes I do, problem is I always forget them whilst I’m writing, so I’ll try to make a start and then continue in other posts.

I suppose the first problem is that we have a belfast sink unit already in place, the worktop is an unknown type of wood and we have refurbished the unit to make it look much nicer.

The worktop is uneven and wavers from front to back. For some unremembered reason, it was decided that the old wood worktop would fit over the new solid wood oak work top from the

retailer, so it will have a gap. Although there will be a overhang.

I’m also having a very hard time making the new units to the side fit level due to a very uneven tiled floor and plasterwork.
The plaster I intend to chip away and the floor can be dealt with by changing the legs level, although by gum this seems to be alot harder than it should be
How should I deal with the gap?
Would a silicone sealant be best?

Also I’d like to say about the postings on danish oil, we tried to use that on the old wood worktop, but it never seemed to bring it to a good shine.
I read into it alot and found out that the main working ingredient seems to be Tung oil, I got a tin of neat Tung oil and used it, it has seemed to solve all the problems, the worktop

now looks better than ever.

BTW we are getting a competent person in to fit the worktops, so I have been reading the messages regarding solid wood worktops with interest, as one thing I am sure of, whatever you

think needs to be done, the bloke doing it, either thinks it doesn’t, or doesn’t seem to know about it.

I’m sure there will be more from me soon.

Thanks