New kitchen

When we had ours fitted 2 yrs ago we made sure that the first unit fitted was the for the sink so we could restore the water supply and don't be affraid to make use of your local takeaway for meals this gives a perfect excuse for Sunday lunches out for two weeks.take care hoping all goes well.

In addition to the kettle & toaster I made great use of my Russell & Hobbs multi-cooker (similar to a slow-cooker).

Also, the builder made sure that every evening before he left that I had access to running water.

Make a lot of meals up in advance and freeze them. I was without a kitchen for six weeks as building work was being undertaken as well as fitting a kitchen. I cooked up bulk quantities of bolognaise sauce and all our favourite casseroles and stews so that all I had to do was cook veg in the microwave.

The kitchen fit went very well, we loaded up the units and went away for the weekend. We returned home to find that in our absence a four metre run of wall units had fallen off the wall and nearly everything in them was smashed or damaged.

Wow Grannylin, thanks for that. I have bookmarked that page as it looks excellent. I knew I could rely on you ladies

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I bought this to put on top of a table.It was so useful, I use it regularly.

I washed up in the bathroom basin and put a laundry basket in the empty bath to drain things.

We lived near a pub...

That's the spirit nanpug and I hope my suggestions help.

Wow, some excellent suggestions and also some scary points I love the idea of a slow cooker phoenix and the board across the bath too. I am certainly not looking forward to it but needs must and I am looking forward to the end result.

I did all of the above, fridge/freezer. toaster, kettle and crockery in the dining room and washed up in the bathroom. I had the added complication of having the entire house renovated as well as an extension built at the same time. My kitchen was supposed to take a week but ended up taking nine and a half months to be properly finished. I just hope you haven't asked John Lewis to do your kitchen.

You could always move into soop's kitchen extension, nanapug. Lovely and comfy in there.

A slow cooker might be an idea?

Also, and you might think this is madness, but give it some thought! When the old kitchen is taken out, salvage a piece of the worktop, or possibly 2 bits. One can go on the dining room table to make it safe for food prepping.

Now for the mad bit! Put the other piece resting across the bath! That way you can do the washing up in the bath and put the things on the worktop to drain. Once dry they can be returned to their temporary lodging place, you can put the work top to one side and use the bath as normal.

Just don't confuse a brillo pad for your sponge!

When we renovated our house, I bought a baby belling and installed it on a table in one of the rooms and washed up in the old shower room basin, as we'd gutted what couldn't be called a kitchen. Can't remember for how long, because we were so busy. I do remember the only way of getting to our bed was via a dodgy ladder. Most of the time we had fun.

My "new" kitchen which was installed about 12 years ago only took a week. It is a small kitchen. I survived on frozen meals (my f/f is in the dining room), reheated in a microwave and fish and chips from the local when I got fed up with frozen microwaved food. I do not have a utility room so like KatyK I protected my dining room table and used it for housing microwave, kettle, sandwich toaster and toaster. I only had myself to look after which did help.

not sure if this will help but we have had 2 new kitchens during our years in this (rather small) house. The first time I left a chip pan on and the kitchen caught fire and had to be gutted. This was before many people had microwaves but some kind soul lent us one which we kept in the living room. I'm not sure how we managed but we did. We ate out when we could, and some kind people took pity on us now and then and asked us over for a meal. The house was a mess with smoke damage etc but we had to stay there. We survived it ! We had another complete new kitchen last year (our kitchen is only small). It took 3 weeks to install, which was pretty horrendous. We stored some stuff in the bedrooms, some in our little utility, brought the kettle, toaster and microwave into the living room, put a table protector on our dining table and made toast, sandwiches etc in there. We did washing up in the bathroom sink. It's not pleasant but the only thing I can say is that my new kitchen is lovely and it was worth all the upheaval. (Except that 2 months after it was completed we had a leak from the bathroom into the kitchen and the ceiling had to be taken down along with all my new kitchen cupboards as we had to have a new ceiling!) We got there in the end and if was a good excuse to get rid of some stuff that we hadn't used for years. Good luck!

I did all you say you are planning - only I could use my utility room for some of the time. Microwave, 2 of everything - cutlery, plates, glasses, washing up in the downstairs loo etc fridge in the garage and I looked forward to lots of meals at the pub.
That palled very quickly and I was grateful to a friendly neighbour made me very happy by inviting us round for sausages and mash one night!! I think it was all pretty awful - I was out at work (fortunately) and DH working on the south coast at the time - happy to stay there too!! I could use the washing machine, until the builders moved into the utility room as well. Everywhere got dusty (plaster dust) and cold and it didn't help to know that it was costing an arm and a leg at the same time!!!
It took from Christmas until the end of February and was pretty sh*tty but worth it in the end. You have my commiserations!!!