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Where do you store a kitchen?

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TheLittleFriend · 05/02/2022 18:53

before it’s fitted?!

Ours is being delivered by diy kitchens (assembled cabinets, not flat pack) but they only give a delivery week, so the fitter is booked for the following week. Our house is small. There is nowhere to store it. The only option we have is a gazebo with sides outside the back door. We don’t really have another choice, so I think I’m looking for you to tell me we’re not totally mad!

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bonfireheart · 05/02/2022 20:01

It depends on your house. We have a garage rarely used. We have a dining room that we could store boxes in and just eat in lounge. Which room could you do without for a few days? Even the lounge would do if you are prepared to live in your bedrooms for a few days. I wouldn't put in a gazebo just cos of the weather.

FuzzyPuffling · 05/02/2022 20:02

We put ours in the garage. It filled about two thirds of it, floor to ceiling, like giant Tetris.

FuzzyPuffling · 05/02/2022 20:03

Sorry, meant to say, have you got a neighbour with a garage/ shed you could borrow?

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TheLittleFriend · 05/02/2022 20:04

We don’t have a garage, just a kitchen/dining room and living room. I really don’t think my husband, two kids, me & cat can live upstairs for that time. I hoped we could put it all dining room end of kitchen, but then realised he is laying floor across the whole thing.

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TheLittleFriend · 05/02/2022 20:06

Neighbour with shed uses it as an office so no luck their. They are already kindly letting us use their drive to put a skip on for the old kitchen!

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FuzzyPuffling · 05/02/2022 20:12

My floor was laid after the units were put it, but before the kick boards, so you could store units in the dining room and the kick boards elsewhere? ( Ours, being long, were laid down the hallway until needed)

Caspianberg · 05/02/2022 20:32

Our kitchen is already out, so new electrics/ plumbing plastering, then flooring will be done before new kitchen delivered and fitted. About 10 weeks without kitchen

I think you need to take the kitchen out first and floor laid before new one delivered

Spinnier · 05/02/2022 20:33

House tetris. We disassembled our dining table and squished up the sofas.

Cromple · 05/02/2022 20:34

Mine went in the living room and hallway, it was chaos 😂

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TheLittleFriend · 05/02/2022 20:37

It’s just not going to fit. The living room is small, hallway is 1x1m and the kitchen needs to be cleared for floor to be laid first. I’m going to have to accept we’re mental and put it u see the gazebo 😬

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22Newnames · 05/02/2022 20:37

Ours is going to go in the living room and the dining room. Like you we have a week a lot with DIY in a couple of weeks b it because there were delays when we ordered we have allowed a week’s leeway in case of delays. This means we will be very squished for a couple of weeks.

If your floor doesn’t need screeding you may be able to store some of it in the kitchen. Our kitchen floor needs screeding so needs to be empty sadly.

I’m dreading the install process and time without a proper kitchen but it’ll be worth it!

cultkid · 05/02/2022 20:38

Pull your kitchen out and store it in the kitchen

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TheLittleFriend · 05/02/2022 20:41

I’m dreading it too 22Newnames. Fingers crossed it will all be worth it

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seven7sisters · 05/02/2022 20:43

We put a tent up in our garden for a few days; is that an option? Was a bloody large one, but perhaps a £50 would do? This was last October too, so not in summer etc

Chasingsquirrels · 05/02/2022 20:43

Mine went in the garage.
I wouldn't store it outside in a gazabo as this time of year.
It will be a pain not having use of your living room for a couple of weeks.
It would be even more of a pain if the kitchen you have presumably spend a few thousand on gets ruined outside.

chickywoo · 05/02/2022 20:44

I’m presuming your old kitchen is going to be out very soon? Then you can store it in the kitchen when it comes then on the day the fitter comes you can just spread it into surrounding rooms or outside even - he should get most of it fitted in a day if it’s preassembled ( the big main bits anyway)

FuzzyPuffling · 05/02/2022 21:05

Ours was finished in November. Kitchen dining room knock through, new units and appliances,, flooring, plastering of walls and ceiling, old units installed in garage, new electrics, tweaking to utility and WC.
The whole thing took less than 5 weeks and it really wasn't be as awful as expected.
We set up a temporary kitchen in a bedroom with kettle, toaster and microwave, used polystyrene boxes with frozen cool blocks as a fridge and washed up in the bathroom.
The cats were ok too, and they were my biggest worry.

Tergeo · 05/02/2022 21:11

You can't keep it outside, if it gets damp, the cupboards will swell and bE damaged.

We had to rearrange furniture and walk around ours when it was in the living room. It's only a week, you could probably manage upstairs for that amount of time, it's inconvenient but sometimes you have to get on with it. We're in a flat so the kids had to basically stay in their rooms for a week.

ExtremelyDelighted · 05/02/2022 21:15

We ripped the old one out first. Then first fix electrics and plumbing. Kitchen delivered into empty kitchen. Every morning the fitters moved everything they weren't using either onto the patio (we have French windows in the kitchen) under a tarpaulin or into the dining room for the day and put it back every night. The floor was screeded and laid after the units and then the kickboards fitted afterwards.

ItsSnowJokes · 05/02/2022 21:21

It could get so damaged in the garden even under a gazebo. They are not totally weatherproof. What if you have a storm?!?!?!

You will need to store it in the lounge and live upstairs for a couple of weeks.

Spinnier · 06/02/2022 00:09

Ask him. Depending on floor type it might not be a big deal to move it all from one end of the kitchen to the other when doing the floor. Or you could fit it first and do the floor after. Or you could put sofas in storage. It'll only be for a few days. The installation should be quick with them being so much assembled already.

Hairyfriend · 06/02/2022 00:15

I wouldnt put it in a gazebo or outside at all! It would only take a small amount of moisture to make it all swell and fit fit together.

Can you stack 2-3 cabinets on top of each other, and put one in each bedroom, another stack in the lounge, another in the utility? Spread them out, throughout the house? Otherwise, I change the delivery or installing date or hire a small storage unit.

BonnyandPoppy · 06/02/2022 00:22

We stored ours in the empty kitchen and in the garage. The cats thought it was great jumping around all the boxes. We had the microwave and a single induction plug in ring in the lounge and washed up in the bathroom. We had the floor fitted before the kitchen was fitted and then put sheets of plywood down to protect it. DH insisted it had to go wall to wall rather than to just under the units.

HasaDigaEebowai · 06/02/2022 00:27

Pay to have the delivery delayed. If you store it outside it will get ruined in the damp.

minipie · 06/02/2022 00:29

If you can’t delay the delivery then it may need to be the living room. Stack them as a pp suggested. Move the TV upstairs, a week of watching TV sitting on the bed.

Do not store outside!

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