Owning your own home

Monster. I had to settle for 1700x750.

Bath is this one. Didn't go for a steel bath. Have one currently and the kids have absolutely ruined it. It's got about 8 chips in it.

I should've probably done this too.

in the last 3 weeks i've called as many brickwork repair people to come round and give me a quote for some shit that wants fixing, not a single one of them turned up. not a call, not an email, not a peep.

fuck me around like a chump. fuck you! i genuinely hope their "businesses" fail on their arses, they deserve nothing less.

Ha.
I went for a steel Bette, not the loft one which is what I really wanted but a bit over budget.

At this rate you may as well have your own thread in the current projects section

I've had reasonable success for small bitty stuff using mybuilder.com - tends to be contractors in between gigs, as opposed to builders just looking for big bits of work.

You might be able to get one or two as the large sites shut down from Xmas

yeah i'll give that a whirl.

What size job? For large jobs I have a recommendation.

i have some pointing on the external wall that i suspect is facked and is allowing water into the internal wall. it's very localised so hopefully nothing too onerous to put right, so not exactly a large job by my estimations.

hmu!

Underlay and spikey bastard strips gone.

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So. Many. Staples.

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@stevo_com looks amazing! Where are you based now?

Good cycling sponsorship product placement going on there.

10/10.

Thornton Heath, next to the recreation ground, hence being able to afford a whole house.

Good going! Stained glass looks great too.

Stairs look great. I like the ball cap on that newel post.

That's a beautiful hallway! What's the plan for the flooring and stairs?

It's time for another round of critique my bathroom layout.

We're moving the bathroom from the room on the right into the room on the left because it's currently very small and horrible and the room on the left is down a long long corridor and wouldn't really be suitable for a child's room.

The room on the right we want to make into some kind of laundry and utility room to free up space in the kitchen.

Anyway - I don't really know any bathroom layout rules or whether there even are like there are with kitchens. I know I don't really want a toilet near the toothbrushes and we'd like a bath and separate shower even though the room's not massive.

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@amey Get a door like this and all will be forgiven.

Sometimes your position of toilet is dictated by where the 4" pipe is as that can be the only ballache. Dont see any issue with the layout for that, separate shower and bath is the one if you can have both too.

Currently thinking of keeping the hallway as boards and see how they sand up, then carpet the hall stairs and landing for sound reasons.

Same layout as mine, but your room is larger and your door opens the other way. We’ve got a towel rad on left hand wall over bath as you enter also.
It looks a little ‘bitty’ but it’s IMO the optimal layout to get a bath and shower in that shape of space. In the last 3 months of use I’ve not hit any problems with it so you should be fine.

Builders generally hate small jobs. By the time they’ve got on site and fucked around working out where they can plug stuff in and have a fag, that’s half a day gone.

Ours have been here for seven months now and annoy me on a daily basis by messing around and being slack. Thank fuck they’re not on a day rate except for the odd extra bit I’ve negotiated.