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The project:
Removed the old kitchen backsplash and replaced with new tiles and tassie oak shelving on floating brackets. Built a rangehood cover for the existing rangehood, and an arched coffee nook beside the fridge.
- Materials:
Makita drill set, ozito mitre saw, tassie oak timber, DAR pine, gyprock plasterboard
- Step 1:
Removed the glass shelf on the old kitchen rangehood, raised the rangehood 100mm, built a frame around it using DAR pine, and gyprock plasterboard. Trimmed with tas oak moulding on top and bottom, stained with walnut stain.
- Step 2:
Removed the old kitchen tiles and all the plaster behind it. Cut back to the studs in the wall, marked them out for later use, fit new plasterboard to the studs in the wall and tiled up to the ceiling with new tiles. Cut tiles around the rangehood using a diamond angle grinder blade and ozito angle grinder. Cut holes for floating shelf brackets using a m14 thread 6mm diamond bit
- Step 3:
Fit floating shelf brackets into holes and 6mm coach screws through the tile into the studs behind the plaster. Cut rebates and 12mm holes into 50mm tassie oak shelves and attached to the brackets. Stained with walnut stain. Grouted tiles with brown grout and sealed the benchtops with brown silicone.
- Step 4:
Built a square frame for the archway using DAR pine, cut plasterboard into an arch and fit to the frame using multi join compound. Sand back, primed and painted.
