First up, the electrics.
Thanks to Obi Wan's loan of a multi-meter, each electrical wire is checked to see how much current they contain.
Apart from a rogue spark exploding, the job goes rather well. Here is our stove. Yes, we have a working stove now (the oven at least).
Talking of the kitchen..
The decision is made to shut the kitchen window, that is currently being propped wide open by Sitex steel bars. We decide to retain the bottom Sitex steel bars, because the idea is to keep the metal sheet on, reattaching it straight away with our two-bolts-and-some-string technique.
Here is the angle grinder being used to dismantle the top and middle Sitex bars :
Da-daaah!
Despite a crack or two in the panes, the kitchen feels warm at last.
