Kitchen finish advice

Had a difficult experience with a joiner who injured himself mid-job (broke his elbow, fractured his coccyx, and cracked some ribs). Supposed two week process has taken 6 weeks. Anyway, he insisted on finishing ("I need to get paid and you need the kitchen finishing", etc), but I'm not fully happy with the overall result. It's rough in places, in my opinion, but he got ultra defensive if dared to ask questions or said I wasn't happy with certain things, which has pee'ed me off no end tbh. We'll forget about the floor, which now has a drop of 3cm from the midpoint (which wasn't there before), but I could do with advice on a few niggles. In terms of the units, the cut edges look to me like a big lamination bubbling risk of the future once water gets in. Should I silicone with a green product to make it neat and add protection? I'd prefer to caulk because I hate using silicone, but green caulk doesn't seem to exist? For the tiling against a not straight wall, which he patch plastered/bonded, should I fill the edges and then caulk to prevent it looking so unfinished? And for the step, which he's fudged a solid oak trim onto the end of old step to hide the flooring expansion gap, should I fill and sand the dip between the two? I think it looks weird and it's uncomfortable under foot when you step on it. Thanks in advance. submitted by /u/PedroPierrePeter [link] [comments]

May 7, 2025 - 23:03

Had a difficult experience with a joiner who injured himself mid-job (broke his elbow, fractured his coccyx, and cracked some ribs). Supposed two week process has taken 6 weeks. Anyway, he insisted on finishing ("I need to get paid and you need the kitchen finishing", etc), but I'm not fully happy with the overall result. It's rough in places, in my opinion, but he got ultra defensive if dared to ask questions or said I wasn't happy with certain things, which has pee'ed me off no end tbh. We'll forget about the floor, which now has a drop of 3cm from the midpoint (which wasn't there before), but I could do with advice on a few niggles. In terms of the units, the cut edges look to me like a big lamination bubbling risk of the future once water gets in. Should I silicone with a green product to make it neat and add protection? I'd prefer to caulk because I hate using silicone, but green caulk doesn't seem to exist? For the tiling against a not straight wall, which he patch plastered/bonded, should I fill the edges and then caulk to prevent it looking so unfinished? And for the step, which he's fudged a solid oak trim onto the end of old step to hide the flooring expansion gap, should I fill and sand the dip between the two? I think it looks weird and it's uncomfortable under foot when you step on it. Thanks in advance.

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