CARRIE’S KITCHENTHE TASKS

Carrie has just moved into a bungalow. The bungalow needs a lot of home improvements and she will do this herself with help from friends to save money.

These tasks are about helping Carrie to plan and fit a new kitchen in her bungalow.There are four tasks in this activity.

The tasks involve using different scales and finding the best buy.

Task 1 is about buying the plumbing and electrical equipment for the best price.

Task 2 is about comparing Carrie’s kitchen to her friend Anoushka’s kitchen.

Task 3 is about planning the layout of Carrie’s kitchen.

Task 4 is about buying the units and appliances for Carrie’s kitchen.

Work together in small groups to complete the tasks. When you have completed the tasks you should compare your findings with other groups.

Remember you must be able to justify your answers.

Task 1 – buying the plumbing and electrical equipment

Carrie needs to replace the kitchen.She must first buy the plumbing and electrical equipment she will need for the task.

There are three DIY stores close by that have what she needs in stock. Carrie finds out how much the items will cost from each DIY store. She wants the items delivered so she finds out about the delivery charges as well.

This is what Carrie finds out.

Bens Building Supplies. (BBS)Cost of items: £123Delivery charges:

for orders between £50 - £100 free delivery up to 5 milesfor orders over £100 free delivery up to 10 milesfor distances over 10 miles – charge on application

Eddie’s DIY (EDIY)Cost of items: £129Delivery charges:Free delivery up to 12 miles. Minimum order £125

Terry’s Construction and Trades (TCT)Cost of items: £108Delivery charges:Free delivery up to 5 miles for orders over £50. Add £10 to orders for distances up to 20 miles.

Key:

Main road

Minor road

Carrie’s Bungalow

DIY stores

What you must do.Use the map to decide which store Carrie should buy the equipment from.

Map to show the location of the three DIY sores and Carrie’s bungalow.

Scale 1cm represents 1 mile

BBS

TCT

EDIY

Carrie’s Bungalow

Measure the distances between Carrie’s bungalow and the three DIY stores

Use the scale to convert these distances to miles

Check the distances against the delivery charges and the cost of the equipment

Decide which is the cheapest store for Carrie to buy from.

You must be able to justify your choice.

Task 2 – working out the size of Anoushka’s kitchen.Carrie wants a kitchen like her friend Anoushka.These are pictures of Anoushka’s kitchen.

Carrie’s kitchen is a different size to Anoushka’s kitchen.

She finds out where Anoushka brought her units from and what size the units are.

What you must do.

Look at the scale drawings of the units and work out what size Anoushka’s kitchen is.

One door cupboard

Three drawer pan unit

10 bottle unit

Corner cupboard unit

.The door can be on the left or the right

Two door Belfast sink unit

Scale drawings of Anoushka’s kitchen units 1 Scale used: 10mm represents 100mm Only the fronts of the units are shown. The base units are all 875mm high and fit under a 600mm deep worktop.

Base units

Sink Unit

Top cupboard with pull-up doorTop cupboard with pull -up door

Top cupboard with one door and space for a microwave

Top cupboard.with one door.

Scale drawings of Anoushka’s kitchen units 2 Scale used: 10mm represents 100mm Only the fronts of the units are shown. The top units are 300mm deep. They come in different heights

Top units

Free standing Island unit this is 450mm deep

Oven housing unit with top and bottom cupboard

Fridge freezer housing unit

Scale drawings of Anoushka’s kitchen units 3

Scale used: 10mm represents 100mm Only the front of the units are shown. The tall units are all 600mm deep

Tall units

Task 2 instructions

Look at the pictures of Anoushka’s kitchen.

Work out how many of each unit she has used along each wall.

Decide which units will sit on the floor and how these are arranged.

Work out the widths of each of the units used from the scale drawings.

Use these to work out the total width of the units along each wall.

Remember to allow for any corner unit.

You may want to draw out the arrangement on squared paper or ask your tutor for a ‘cut out and paste’ sheet of the shapes below drawn the same scale. Then paste them into the correct arrangement so that you can measure the total widths along each wall.

Use the scale to convert the distances to work out what the actual dimensions of Anoushka’s kitchen are.

You must be able to explain how you worked this out.

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Scale drawings of the bases of floor units: scale used 10mm represents 100mm(cut out sheet)

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Task 3 Planning Carrie’s Kitchen Carrie wants to plan out her kitchen to decide what units she needs to buy.

This is what she needs to know.

Her kitchen measures 3.5 metres by 4 metres

The height of her kitchen is 2.4 metres.

The window is 1.5 metres wide.

She can only put units against the inside wall without a door and the wall with the window.

The pipes for the sink are under the window.

She will choose from the same units as Anoushka has used but she may have different combinations.

She can have gaps between the units and walls if she chooses.

Width 3.5 metres

Height 2.4metres metres

Height 2.4m

Width 4m

1m

1.2m

1.5window

Carrie first makes a sketch of her kitchen

Floor plan inside wall

Outside wall

3.5metres

4metres

windowdoor

Task 3 Instructions (use squared paper for this task)

Use a scale of 1cm to 20cm

Make a scale drawing of the floor plan.

Make a scale drawing of the inside wall.

Make a scale drawing of the outside wall.

Decide which units will fit into the space and how they will be arranged.

On your scale drawings:

Show where the units will go on the floor plan.

Show how the front of the units will look on the inside wall.

Show how the front of the units will look on the outside wall.

Remember the units must also be drawn to scale.

Use the measurements for Anoushka’s kitchen units (task 2) to help you do this.

Remember, the scale for the drawings of Anoushka’s kitchen is:

10mm represents 100mm

How does this compare with the scale you are using now?

You can draw in the units or make scale drawings to cut out and paste.

Ikneld

Tremanton

Cookham Carrie’s Bungalow

Task 4 – buying the units and appliances

Carrie needs to hire a van to buy the units and fittings because it is cheaper to collect them herself than to have them delivered.

She will collect the units from the manufacturer at Ikneld, the worktops from a timber reclamation yard at Treemanton and the appliances from the suppliers at Cookham.

The van hire company charge by the mileage she does.

This is a sketch map of the three places Carrie must go to and her bungalow.

She can go to each place and return home between each journey, or plan her route so that she does as few miles as possible.

The lines show how each place can be linked by road.

Carrie wants to work out the best route to take.

Ikneld

Tremanton

Cookham

Carrie’s Bungalow

Road map for task 4. scale: 1 centimetre to 3 miles

Key: motorway motorway intersection main road minor road

Ikneld

Tremanton

Cookham Carrie’s Bungalow

What you must do.

Work out how Carrie can travel to all the places in the shortest mileage.

Task 4 Instructions

Use the road map to work out how many road miles there are between:Carrie’s bungalow and CookhamCarrie’s bungalow and IkneldCarrie’s bungalow and TremantonCookham and IkneldIkneld and Tremanton.

Transfer this information onto the sketch map below.

Decide which order Carrie should do the pickups so that her mileage is as low as possible.

Remember the journey starts and ends at Carrie’s bungalow.