Owning your own home

Would it more pleasant to have the study on the garden side not the road side?

BoJo going on about a risk matrix being introduced for buildings sub 18m. the devil will be in the detail but I suspect this will release most flats from the mess while condemning some others. Fingers crossed, as you say.

It's down as a study but it's precise use will probably be a bit multi purpose - the summer house is getting turned into a two person studio office and I think this layout works better although a view of the summerhouse would be more appealing. The plan is to rebuild the existing garage door frontage so it has a larger window which lets light in but means people can't look in and we're lifting the ceiling up and adding a big skylight which we couldn't do at the rear because of the roof structure.

studio office

forum accepted nomenclature is 'masturbatoreum' iirc

I suspect this will release most flats from the mess while condemning some others

Squeaky bum time until the regs come out then. As you say, could easily condemn many places within minutes of being released.

Fittings or pipes themselves?

I don’t think the issue is with pipe work. To be fair plastic has been long in use in the industry

Fittings in plumbing aren’t put to the same extremities as it is in other use. Thinking O rings and seals in the automotive industry

Typically we would use butt fusion in connecting two lengths of pipe but won’t see a small enough machine for 25/32mm pipe (well I’m not aware)

I realise the conversation has moved on somewhat since this morning but

changing bathrooms every 5yrs is pretty common

u mad bro?
I've spent the last 5 years just thinking about the fact the bathroom needs redoing.

Our 'new' bathroom is six years old.

It took me 7 years to do the one here, and it was a leaky mess the day we moved in. The one at my parents house is older than I am.

how often is hugo copping a new kitchen do we reckon

annual update

It's not really the dort of thing I'd do, but given loads of people move every 5yrs and change the bathroom in their new place I'd say on that basis alone it's pretty common.

On top of that everyone in this country is obsessed with redoing their bathrooms and kitchens all the time.

Our 'new' bathroom is six years old.

You know those homes occupied by pensioners which they’ve owned for years and years but don’t have the cash and energy to redecorate and know there’s no point as they’re not going to be selling. I think I’ve kind of resigned myself to that at the age of 33. I just cba to worry about it and endlessly redecorate/renovate every room in the house on rotation every 5 years.

Lived in a flat all my life in London so have no concept of seperate rooms to take off muddy boots.
Having something like a pantry/larder super organised, rows of shelving and jars would be amazing to my mind..

One of those old 1950s style ones that wouldn't even fit half a modern hatchback in would be fine for me.

I rented one of them ages ago. The chap in charge was amazed when I said I was planning to keep a car in there. He understood when I showed him a picture of the car, which was/is tiny. Rear axle from a Mk2 Escort is the widest part of it.

Right you are! Dual masturbatoreum for me and the wife it is

It's nuts isn't it.

All the houses here are either postwar council houses or huge bling things. So when we were looking we saw a couple of places with OG garages. Seems incredible that your average car used to fit. One of them the owners had sort of knocked out a door in the side at the point where the drivers door could open. Car was some tiny Aego(sp?) sized thing but still a snug fit.

Modern cars are huge in comparison. The original MINI (the BMW one) had pretty much the same wheelbase as a Mk1 Range Rover.

Did you mean 'the not-at-all original MINI'? Or was the old Mini not spelled 'MINI'?

The old mini was not spelt MINI.

I appreciate that much of it is safety, which is clearly a good thing.

Although I'm becoming a bit of a grumpy old man about all the MASSIVE German barges that seem to dominate now. Especially the fucking coupes. Seriously who needs a 5m long coupe?

What baffles me so far is the lack of knowledge on this subject. I only really know of the detail due to what you've written here. However my sister is in the process of looking at properties (including flats) and shes since mentioned this to a number of estate agents who are completely unaware.

My 911 is wider than my C class estate, around the same length, but half as high. Somewhat less storage, also.

I don’t own a car. I rent from Hertz when we go on holiday, and always book a small one. Inevitably they then give me a free upgrade to something massive, which I try to refuse, which is when I find out that the upgrade is all they have on offer. I went to the Italian lakes and they gave me a Fiat 500 that must have been 5 times the volume of the original. It didn’t have a fucking hand brake. The house we were renting was up a steep and winding road on the side of the valley. There was a thunderstorm. I cursed Hertz and modern cars all the way up there.

i have a redundant alarm box nailed to the outside of our gaff that i suspect is responsible for a measure of water ingress, and as such, i want the fucker removed and the holes plugged. who is the best sort of pro to get in to get this sorted? generic builder?

Related-ish, I have some random cabling draped around the front of the house and I don't think it's live/active but I also don't know. Maybe old Sky or phone stuff. Who can check and hopefully remove this for me?