Kitchen Weekend (plus toilet tiles and garage roof)

May 08, 2022

Golden Week - big wastewater drainage cleaning!

Saturday May 7th was big wastewater drainage day in Futtsu. The city supplied hemp bags for the mud. It was an experience I did not want to have missed. There was about 10 cm of mud on the bottom of the drainage. Our friendly neighbor kindly introduced me to the efficient technique. In the end 6 hemp bags were full. What else happened during this pleasant Golden Week holiday with great weather and also a bit of wind :) We did some work in the house and added some wooden boards to the wash basin and kitchen cabinets. We used the same panels as was used by our 大工さん which turned out to be the cheapest and most easy one to process. We did the cutting at the Cainz home center (one cut 50 JPY with member card). Finally spring is there and the frogs are croaking day and night and the grasshoppers are hopping. With other words it was again highly meditative. PS: I did my first kite session after the accident.... it had to be to loose the fear.... but don't te...

We finished the kitchen ceiling and cleaned the cupboards while waiting for the kitchen to be delivered.

With some water and soap the thick black layer on the wood could be removed.

Just like new....

Finally the kitchen came at 6:30 - it was quite a sight to see the big truck coming to our small house.

With the help of our neighbor we quickly unloaded the kitchen.

The next day I finished the tiling in the toilet. It was the worst idea of the century to do the finish after installing the toilet. This time I used a drill to mix the powder and the result was much better. The first batch was rather thick and sticky what made it stick to the wall better but it took more effort to fill each space between the tiles. The 2nd batch was more liquid which resulted in a greater mess - especially on myself.

I took particular care on the protection of the toilet, floor and walls.