After a good night of sleep, dreaming about destroying kitchen parts, we successfully woke up and reinitiated the kitchen rebuilding. As we are still in “Project Mayhem” most of our work will be of destructional nature.
A glimpse into the past
This blog series does not only serve as a practical guide for (for amaturs up to experts) of how to rebuild your own kitchen – it’s also educational. Therefore I will try to inject some interesting facts as we go along. The house itself, nicely situated on Hökens gata close to Mosebacke, was built in 1858, this was the year after the big fire on Södermalm that burnt down all houses (even the theatre). I think this also was the same decade our olden king Gustav Vasa liberated Sweden from some occuping forces. Considering how long ago this was (just look at the silly beard), it was to no surprise that the floor looked really bad as it was probably installed in the same epoch (cheap floors during wars). Then all the spilling of food on it for many decades has certainly left it in a very bad shape. So as we are doing this properly, rest assured that we are building a new floor.
This is Gustav Vasa:
And here is the olden floor:
New floor made of cutted planks
Luckily we found some planks laying around. Unluckely the planks didn’t fit on the floor so we had to cut them first.
Cutting planks is really easy if you have the right tools & knowledge (gathered during project Hawkeye). In short, cutting a plank can be done in two ways, either by hand or by a cutting-machine. We got a cutting-machine to do the work for us as we didn’t want to get blisters in our hands.
Look and learn:
Risk assesments
Rebuilding a kitchen can be dangerous if you don’t assess the risks properly as you go along. This is not only a part of “Project Hawk Eye” (see the mission plan above) but also an iterative process that you should take seriously throughout the operation. This is our system: Everytime we encountered a risk one the encountee loudly calls out for a risk assessment: “Risk assessment”. Then the other one carefully approaches the risk and we evaluate it together. One example of this is electricity. After taking safety precautions along our risk assessment we proceed. Here we can see how Philip is carefully detaching a on-off button, note the plastic handle on the screwdriver, the gloves and the face mask (spark protection) :
*don’t try this yourself unless you really know what you are doing (feel free to ask us in the comments if you are unsure)
Day 2 Summary
We did a really good work today, cutting a floor and neutralizing risks, we have learn alot about electricity and wood cutting (easy peasy lemon squeezy). We are not sure what to do next, either we start to reroute the waterpipes or perhaps paint something (would be nice to start on “project Eden” as it’s probably even more fun).
Rest assured that this journey of insight and knowledge will continue.