I have a new kitchen installed with a nice new stainless steel hood and
chimney above the hob. My father in law (who I call a BIY expert -
"Bodge It Yourself") insists I should tile around these fittings. I
think it will look crap, will be hard to cut the angles to look nice
and I don't think having grout and/or sealant around the edges will be
that nice. I want to take the hood and chimney off and tile behind but
my first attempts indicate that the kitchen fitters used black magik to
get them into place and it will be hard to remove them.

So should I persevere or just bodge it?

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I have a new kitchen installed with a nice new stainless steel hood and
chimney above the hob. .... I want to take the hood and chimney off and tile behind but
my first attempts indicate that the kitchen fitters used black magik to
get them into place and it will be hard to remove them.

So should I persevere or just bodge it?

I think you should persevere, because the end result will look so much
better. If you tile around it, then the hood goes wrong, you'll have a
an even worse mess on your hands.

Hard to say, exactly how the hood and chimney fit to the wall, but in
my experience it is only likely to be a few screws, and hopefully not
gripfix or similar!

wrote:
I have a new kitchen installed with a nice new stainless steel hood and
chimney above the hob. .... I want to take the hood and chimney off and tile behind but
my first attempts indicate that the kitchen fitters used black magik to
get them into place and it will be hard to remove them.

So should I persevere or just bodge it?

I think you should persevere, because the end result will look so much
better. If you tile around it, then the hood goes wrong, you'll have a
an even worse mess on your hands.

Hard to say, exactly how the hood and chimney fit to the wall, but in
my experience it is only likely to be a few screws, and hopefully not
gripfix or similar!

Dont tile it if you dont want to, dont let anyone force you into it. Invest
in a one of these circular table type tile cutters, pretty cheap, easy to
use.

Measure the angle you want anf then cut a bit of MDF to make a jig to hold
the tile at the correct angle, should be able to make a pretty neat job of
it. buying good quality tiles makes things easier, they cut nicer and you
waste less.

Kev

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I have a new kitchen installed with a nice new stainless steel hood and
chimney above the hob. My father in law (who I call a BIY expert -
"Bodge It Yourself") insists I should tile around these fittings. I
think it will look crap, will be hard to cut the angles to look nice
and I don't think having grout and/or sealant around the edges will be
that nice. I want to take the hood and chimney off and tile behind but
my first attempts indicate that the kitchen fitters used black magik to
get them into place and it will be hard to remove them.

So should I persevere or just bodge it?

look up the hood on www look up the fitting instructions, the fitters should
have left all the instructions with you, chase them up, if they bodged it
get them back to do it correctly

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I have a new kitchen installed with a nice new stainless steel hood and
chimney above the hob. .... I want to take the hood and chimney off and
tile behind but
my first attempts indicate that the kitchen fitters used black magik to
get them into place and it will be hard to remove them.

So should I persevere or just bodge it?

I think you should persevere, because the end result will look so much
better. If you tile around it, then the hood goes wrong, you'll have a
an even worse mess on your hands.

Hard to say, exactly how the hood and chimney fit to the wall, but in
my experience it is only likely to be a few screws, and hopefully not
gripfix or similar!

wrote:
wrote:
I have a new kitchen installed with a nice new stainless steel hood and
chimney above the hob. .... I want to take the hood and chimney off and tile behind but
my first attempts indicate that the kitchen fitters used black magik to
get them into place and it will be hard to remove them.

So should I persevere or just bodge it?

I think you should persevere, because the end result will look so much
better. If you tile around it, then the hood goes wrong, you'll have a
an even worse mess on your hands.

Hard to say, exactly how the hood and chimney fit to the wall, but in
my experience it is only likely to be a few screws, and hopefully not
gripfix or similar!

Thanks for the encouragement. I managed to remove the hood and chimney,
tiled behind it last night and it now looks fantastic. The fitters had
bodged it - rather than using the supplied metal brakcet for the
chimney they used a piece of wood screwed (loosely) to the wall - why I
don't know. The wood piece (which I couldn't see initially) caused the
installation instructions to not make sense since it prevented the
removal in the correct sequence. Anyway, I figured it out and it was
worth it.

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look up the hood on www look up the fitting instructions, the fitters should
have left all the instructions with you, chase them up, if they bodged it
get them back to do it correctly

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I have a new kitchen installed with a nice new stainless steel hood and
chimney above the hob. My father in law (who I call a BIY expert -
"Bodge It Yourself") insists I should tile around these fittings. I
think it will look crap, will be hard to cut the angles to look nice
and I don't think having grout and/or sealant around the edges will be
that nice.

If you do tile behind it you'll leaky still need to 'grout' or seal the
join.

Cutting angles in tiles is easy with a cheap electric tile cutter.

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Twice now you have been offerred the help to sort out your posting. You
are
still posting upside down and not trimming which is extremely antisocial
and
irritating. Please sort it out as you will find that your contributions
get
ignored otherwise.

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?How_to_post

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AJL
Thank you for your input

Is this what you had in mind?

It seems to ignore the actual posting!