Owning your own home

Also we let the builder spec a cheap skylight and most of the double glazed units are blown now and need replacing.

did you go for openy openy skylights or fixed?

did you go full fat architect route or just a common or garden structural engineer?

Can't tell if serious...

Estate 17 are definitely not an old school, frenzy-averse estate agent. They're gentrification vanguard, with their own little magazine about Walthamstow.

Fixed skylight.

Architects was a bit of a minefield. Quite a few wanted dollar just to come around for a look. Then the ones who did come around, all said different things about max size of apertures, min size permitted for downstairs loo etc.

Eventually found a fairly low rent architect who did some drawings which the builder then semi ignored. Didn't end up mattering that much, though.

Oh are they? Their branding and website are so terrible I assumed old school, they’ve got a bloody full screen animated gif on their home page.

If you care there are also architects that design and build to avoid any hand over issues, would recommend.

hmu

https://www.eckfordchong.com/projects Worth noting they came in pretty much bang on budget and on time. I would say bang on but there was scope creep.

Would you mind if I checked out your extension on insta? I'm just intrigued how it worked out especially as my parents in law are now looking for inspiration for an extension after being totally fucked over by a builder for ten grand (who advertised in the guardian weekend glossy magazine of all places)

Went with resi wished we’d gone with someone/architect. though they do what they do what they do they leave in our experience many things I wished we hadn’t had to deal with as in layouts etc

They build boxes etc but don’t get involved as we found with ideas of the finish. We’ve had a bit of mare with the final fit. What should have been done in 3 months pushed onto 6. But almost there now.

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Nah course not, if you want any more info feel free to slide into DMs, I'd be happy to post in thread but people can get funny about stuff.

OH HAI.
FWIW thats looking fantastic, defo a bit jealous of the scale.

Fuck it, I'll post a pic of the bathroom because I LOVE the pink.
EC's level of finish is amazing, and their attention to detail really good, and thats coming from an annoying pretentious prick who thinks he knows best.
Their build team were the soundest and most middle class builders I've ever met, kinda miss them coming round at 8am every morning. One of them left their lunch here one day, it was Sourdough with pastrami and gouda wrapped in reusable wax canvas (missed a couple of points from not being vegan).

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One of them left their lunch here one day, it was Sourdough with pastrami and gouda wrapped in reusable wax canvas

astounding! :-)

👋🏼 been a pita to be honest. Love what you’ve done on yours saw it on IG. Wish we’d gone with someone more hands on. Most of what we did was with us with tape measures and the builders know how and sometimes not. But happy to see the end in sight now. Fed up of washing up in the bath..

Looks great mate. Knew Pink would get in there!

Went for green in the end ourselves

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Ooph.... love that too. Defo want some green somewhere. And some orange.

Actually we have orange in the kitchen.

Think pink is going in our bathroom. With grey with black taps etc got to tick the boxes 😁

That is very nice

Cheers dude. Have dropped you a line.

Knew you’d cave... 😉

Thanks! We are pretty happy.

Must be something in the air! The wife painted our bathroom green while I was away earlier this week!

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