Owning your own home

Yeah, my pink, terrazzo and metal combo is way more subtle.

Lol, I actually thought they would chip really easy from seeing them posted in here.

Hard wood or a nice carpet ftw

Not just me then!

All the cork talk reminds me of this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wWDQHBsk-uw

And that my parents put cork tiles in every bathroom they’ve ever owned.

If you have made up your mind that you are comfortable with walking away then you should state your terms for a successful sale, eg

• £ you would accept
  
• Conditions we would accept
  
• Date of exchange
  
  

Feels like they’ve played fairly hard with you and it sounds like you’ve been willing to work with them but now you’ve lost patience. It’s fair at this point to side step any unresolved demands from them and simply state your terms; do they want the place or not?

Looks like we recently both got the same fridge freezer. The handles and doors should come off to make easier movement

Sounds good ,look forward to seeing the progress. Have you got a builder booked or just accumulating the bits?

No one booked yet, have a quote from one guy I trust but he’s busy until late March, if you’ve got any recommendations I’m all ears...

Thanks for the reply. Would love these on my kitchen floor but even after a screed it’s more crazy golf course than putting green.

who was it that had some sweet sweet roofer loving recently on this thraed? @Stonehedge? was it thee?

We had our survey done yesterday, nothing worrying, but the surveyor said while there's no issue with water pressure at the bottom of the house the shower in the ensuite at the top seemed on the weak side, so I suspect we'll have the same issue.

If you've not ordered your tiles yet I definitely agree with spending less. The architect who filled in for our architect when he went on holiday (then went to work for him) had his fancy place in Edinburgh featured in Dezeen recently. They did the whole place on a budget of £20k but ended up spending 15 and it looks great, and they used tiles that cost 38p each (£19 per square metre) in the kitchen.

Nice. Cork is a great material! Naturally warm because it insulates well, sustainable (by buying it you're basically countering desertification), affordable, looks good...

All I'd say is try not to drop heavy things on it, it will dent. We've got it in our cellar which is my bike workshop and there are quite a few dents where I've dropped tools.

I've just spotted you're laying it in the kitchen though so maybe just embrace that. We've taken quite a few chips out of our polished concrete floor dropping kitchen utensils.

What a disaster :(

Your buyers sound like knobs. Are they first timers? It sounds like they have no idea what they're doing.

I love woodchip!

Joke, lol

Nothing planned as such. Likewise just buying bits here and there. Sounds like what with the lockdown you should book him for March. Probably be a bit uncomfortable with anyone being in the house before , especially not being able to use someone else’s shower

All I can offer is that we had to get permission before we started digging and covering it last year when we did our extension. What we had to do was add another opening away from new extension so as Thames water could access their pipes still. Worth checking if they have done that?

Not I

we've got cork flooring in my living room and extension. it's so good - warm, hides dirt, easy to clean, dampens sound, hard wearing. I love it

might splash the cash on some granby workshop tiles for inside the fireplace in the living room

They sounds like arseholes. Even after this they’ll probably find something else to complain about.

Are you in North London? Loved my roofer, timely, decent, good work, reasonable costs (this isn't the kitchen thread). I rate trades according to how well they identify the work, explain it and then execute it, and the roofer I used was excellent.

http://www.leakfreeroofingandbuilding.co.uk

Mike is his name. He does North London, may go farther afield

edit: he does all of London 😁

Slight dredge, but agreed - let my plumber talk me into ditching the spare toilet and I have zero regrets. Nothing like not getting a cold surprise when someone decides to run the kitchen hot tap when you're mid suds. Also, an airing cupboard is a type of luxury a spare toilet could never be...

cheers boss, i'll give him a bell.

Don’t get the cork tile hate. Great material and sustainable. Looks good too.

It sounds like they know exactly what they are doing

I'm on board with cork tiles too.

Kitchen tap replacement has hit a snag. No matter how finely I adjust the isolation valve it won't close, is it possible for them to fail? It definitely reduces, but is still more than a steady trickle when the valve's screw is perpendicular to the flow. Only other explanation is that it's being fed from elsewhere, but fucked if I can figure out how.

Unfortunately the stop cock affects the flat downstairs. If I was confident this would be a 30 min job I'd bother them with the inconvenience, but experience tells me that won't be the case.