Owning your own home

Do you have a link?

https://www.originalstyle.com/tiles/?area=Wall&clr=Pink%20to%20Burgundy

Ohhhhh those first ones look good, now just need to find a way to get a sample. Cheers!

Ah ha! Differing articles. Now it makes sense.

Looking forward to seeing how you take on your new place!

I'd missed the £75k post so presumably the £15k was for the kitchen which makes more sense.

It's going to be on a tight budget, I've spent most of this weekend staring at spreadsheet and researching stuff. We need to do a side return extension and new kitchen (need is a strong word but see current bathroom and kitchen below) as part of the initial work and given our budget is two Kitchen kitchens it's hard to see how this isn't going to suck up all of our budget.

This would leave us nothing for the rest of the house which is actually where the quick wins are (taking up ugly flooring, painting magnolia walls, that sort of thing) so we haven't even exchanged yet and I'm already stressing about the budget :/

Need to talk to some builders.

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looks like a scouting retreat hostel, how do the people living there.. enjoy that?!

What the fuck are the gates on the shower for??

Grim

Also, the stains around the toilet are less than ideal.

What the fuck are the gates on the shower for??

Along with the rail just below the shower then presumably to help mobility

We're part of the way through doing similar scale of work to them in Edinburgh and there's probably 10k of work in just knocking the wall down, replastering, electrics and plumbing to get the shell ready for the 15k of decorating and installing a kitchen.

So you can wheel a wheelchair in there

Am I alone in actually quite wanting those shower gate things? Hosing down my mtb yesterday would have been a lot more comfortable in there

Interesting. We are going for a 70s theme in our house.

@Señor_Bear are you laying the tiles end-to-end, or staggering them (like bricks/railway tiles?)

I went for the second option - thought it looked much better/more seamless, especially once sealed.

That's what I assumed but then why wouldn't you just have higher doors - not like the water now just can't get out and go everywhere.

Also, the kitchen doesn't look very wheelchair friendly with a 10cm step and no ramp.

Hadn’t even thought about that. End to end I think

Wet room flooring and it’s so the carer can assist the person sitting in the wheelchair without getting soaked.

They don't, they're dead!

Don't mean to sound that harsh but yeah it's a probate place. Luckily the rest is a lot lot better.

It smelt pretty bad when we viewed it, had gone a bit on second viewing.

it's the generic style accessible bathroom supplied by the council under the disabled facility grant. So a kind of one size fits all for anyone applying for one - even if you don't use a wheelchair.
The screens are used with shower curtains. The idea being you can position your wheelchair to shift yourself onto a shower seat, push your wheel chair out, and close the screens.

I would assume it’s was previously occupied by someone with mobility issues (potentially an elderly wheel chair user) who’s lived there a very long time and probably didn’t have a large disposable income to spend on 40k kitchens or £100+ sqm tiles.

Bit mean knocking it.

That makes sense - hadn't considered that. Cheers.

Still grim.

Flooring- I'm refubing my house in mid April. Part of this involves new flooring throughout. I've been looking at new ply subfloor + screed with engineered wood over the top. Area of 115sqm to cover, so cost is not small. Do I have any other alternatives that will offer a solid surface? Existing boards are not in good condition , so are not good for much

Thicker ply and no screed? I've not heard of screed over ply before (edit: of course this is a comment about my understanding rather than about the technical requirements for engineered flooring).

Tile backing board instead of ply for areas that you are tiling (if any).

Doubt you need screed over ply for using engineered floor finish. With things like forbo or rubber or sheet vinyl I believe the installation deets say you do need screed. Personal experience suggests you do as in my bathroom with forbo over ply you can see the seam in the ply under the forbo. I just try not to look.

Thanks both . Was also wondering whether ply and engineered wood was necessary, and whether just new solid boards could be laid