3/6/19:
Building Summary: Today I fetched the oven-hood from container #2, put it together, and hung it (temporarily) on the wall where it will eventually end up. I had to take it down after that brief time, though, because I needed to prepare the top portion for fastening.
Commentary: This morning was both cool and cloudless – a pleasant change from yesterday – and I was able to put together the oven hood quite comfortably on the sunny side of the porch. Comfortably of body, I should say, for my mind got to experience a fair bit of exercise.
I won’t demean the oven hood in the slightest. It looks like a high-quality mechanism (heavily built, thick tempered glass, simple controls, and etc). What was not-so-good were the building & installation instructions. They had obviously been written by a person who did not have English as a first language*. The most perplexing line went like so:
There were only 4 holes to put screws into, so that’s what I did. This was followed by my figuring out that the part they had previously illustrated as a ‘hook’ was not, in fact, the hook. It was easy going from then on out. I used the pieces of tape I put on Jacobhouse’s wall a week or so back as reference points, found their center, and then fastened the real hook in place with self tapping screws**.
Final note: Tomorrow I get to peel the protective layer off of the oven hood’s duct-rise (something I look forward to… and that will likely make it into my next post), and I get to affix the whole appliance more firmly to the wall with a couple more self-tapping screws.
Additional Notes: The FedEx contest is still up and running. Vote for Master Blend here if you want… And to the right is a bonus video of cows enjoying my ‘naturally finished lumber’ project.
*But their efforts must be commended.
**For this, as with the hot water heater, I used the shorter sort of self-tapper. They seem just as sturdy, and they have a lower profile than the large screws.