Owning your own home

It'll clash with my Rapha x Palace garmz

Is that true?

Over what sort of time period do the plastic fittings fail?

Wear a white poppy.

You'll go viral with all the gamons froffin.

Good point!

Is that even a thing??

Have you gone for that shape tub as you're having a shower over the bath?

I'm thinking more along these lines;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W77154J0-w&ab_channel=GuardianNews

But they are perfectly in line with the toilet, and I'm guessing there will be a sink/cabinet on the left?

We use it as a shower 99.32% of the time so this seemed like a good compromise.

There were more visually pleasing options like this "Evolve" tub which effectively has slimmer shoulders but you really need the space at elbow level, not feet level

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Yes, there'll be an Ikea white cabinet, bamboo worktop, white countertop basin and a round mirror.

They are doing grouting & painting tomorrow then the box to hide the pipe behind the toilet.

Don’t let your dreams be dreams.

Obviously pointless as I’ve got a shower door down most of the edge, but pokey-outy tile edges and the accompanying trim always annoyed me. A silly detail in a bathroom full of silly details that, now we’re selling, I doubt will be appreciated by the the next owner (and I doubt I will be able to afford to implement in the next place).

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I have also been extremely exigent over a lot of details across the house, all of which will go unnoticed to the next owners and certainly will not add any value to the house when I come to sell it.

Case in point - I dislike Switched Fused connections so I got them all moved in a kitchen cupboard, onto a board so the kitchen tiling can be "less cluttered" - zero added value.

I also forced the plumber to chase the new boiler pipes into the wall so the kitchen tiling would be flush (and not boxed) - again absolutely no added value.

The list of superfluous requirements continues across the house - you just become your own enemy, burning money/time/efforts well knowing that you will sell the house within 5 years.

But hey, that's what you got to do, right?

This is nice but quite mad.

The previous owner solved the problem of the kitchen isolator switches by not bothering with them. Joy.

Well the thing is, they don't really know! modern plastic pipes have only been used in plumbing for around 20 years or so, so the total lifespan is unknown, apparently it is the rubber seals in the plastic piping that is likely to go rather than the pipe itself. I guess given most people change their bathroom every 20 years or less then it probably won't be an issue for most, as can just change the pipes at that point.

We have a mixture of copper and plastic in house, simply because I couldn't afford to do all copper, given the amount of pipes we have!

Two weeks for the bank appointed surveyor to confirm to the lender that the "Slipped tiles could be nailed back in." No wonder this purchase is taking 4 months so far...so much grayer than when I started.

most people change their bathroom every 20 years or less

Lol.

Who here;
a) has lived in the same place for 20yrs, and / or
b) has a 20yo bathroom?

Not having a pop btw as I know what you mean. Just sceptical (partially as we had a leaky copper pipe) whether properly installed plastic pipe is in reality any less reliable.

Oh, I'm with you, as I said I have plastic pipe, and it certainly doesn't keep me up at night...

Grateful for some advice, I've got no idea about this stuff - I've got a lot of exposed cables in the flat. Also guessing my electrics are old - changed a ceiling light and have red and black cables in addition to brown and blue.

If I want these chased into the walls, I guess I'd first get in an electrician then a plasterer? (Some of these walls / pillars are also concrete..) Any advice welcome...

our downstairs lav is 20 years old

Basically yes.

You'd need to check that the electrician is happy with chasing them in. Often they're "not my job" personalities.

But probably worth getting one in to talk to them. They may well be happy for you to do the cable cutting, chasing.

Risk is they may end up uncovering things no longer to regs and then want to do a full rewire.

As a suggestion I'd think about having ethernet cable run at the same time.

Thanks vm

Risk is they may end up uncovering things no longer to regs and then want to do a full rewire.

Guessing this may be the case.

Ethernet cables - this hadn't even crossed my mind... thanks

Guess I'll just get an electrician in and take it from there then..

Who here;

a) has lived in the same place for 20yrs, and / or
b) has a 20yo bathroom?

When I bought this place I'm sure the bathroom was possibly even 40 years old, but the lady had lived here most of her life. csb.

And the main bathroom that gets the bulk of the use and has a greater scope for personalisation?

I know that some may do, but overall I think most get changed. I'd go so far as to say in this country changing bathrooms every 5yrs is pretty common. Especially main bathrooms. Especially in the hard water areas of the country.