Owning your own home

Wow how have I never seen butt guns before? How do you use it?!? I mean sitting down seems weird standing up seems insane

sit, shit, aim, enjoy! I live on a road with MAD water pressure too.

Sounds like you’re enjoying it a little too much.

I’m also a touch confused how it works though.

you are welcome to mine, I can provide coffee if required

I may need guidance.

I will hold your hand

vast improvement - nice!

Builders are in to start on my cellar tomorrow, ideally they would have let me know before today as i had to clear it! Timing is pretty perfect as I'll have time off over Christmas to sort it out.

Dining room is now a bike pile and spare room a tool dump.

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Toilet bum guns.. I'm on the "for" side of this discussion but after reading it seems they're tricky to get fitted here because poor installation can contaminate your drinking water.

Thailand has them and after a couple of trips there hey just seem to make a lot of sense, squeaky clean fresh feeling for the win.

Can they be fitted to any toilet once you get a plumber who knows their stuff and how to fit them to proper water regs?

Been looking on Bristol council site for a while and can't find answers to these for my flat which is in a conservation area. Managed to find an email address to check if you are in the conservation area so I have speculatively emailed.

1. Do I need planning permission to retro fit double glazing in my existing (likely original) single glazed sash windows?

2. The previous owners changed the back 2 bedroom windows for UPVC sash. I don't think they got permission for this. Do I need to apply for it retrospectively?

3. Do I need planning permission to change the internal layout, move stud walls and make a doorway in a structural wall?

#3 Could be particularly cool (my flat wall vs my friends, though they had a door there already which they just widened without PP)

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Managed to get a guy round who restores stained glass windows so that's positive, and whoever does the single glazed window refurb can do it's frame and the outer window

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That's an awesome window

cheers - will be a nice feature! I think it was @Howard who said he'd kill me if I got rid of it ...
That was never the plan, just hope it doesn't cost more than 2-3k to fix it. I await the quote with bated breath

Might do a CP of the flat actually

If that's the case then just fit a nrv

My front door, leaded lights and frames cost £6k (including furniture, sign writing, security glass etc) with the VAST majority of the labour on the woodwork of the door and window frames. So I would hope you'd be under your budget. All my leaded glass was taken off-site for a month and brought back as new.

I would worry about splash back onto the "gun" itself. Like toilet brushes, I don't think I trust other people to keep the cleaning thing itself clean.

fingers crossed! which part of the country was that?

South London, Thornton Heath

No grosser than a toilet brush, bum guns are still great though.

No it's if it can drop into the toilet bowl and siphon water from there into the freshwater supply. There's a rule for not fitting handheld showers where they can drop into the loo but people forget when retrofitting bum guns.

Just run your bum gun off a reservoir of Perrier for that sparkling clean feeling.

Problem with stuff like that people can just think up a price and double it. Looks amazing though.

how have I never seen butt guns before?

Me either. Those things for washing your boots though are quite handy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwRmpmspgrg

Seriously though, I'm thinking of it like turning a hose on the bike - do you not end up with a soggy backside and then have to use half a roll of dunny roll to dry off before you can put your pink leopard print g-string back on?

Are there mist to jet adjustments to be made?

What's stopping remnants of a particularly sloppy shit being sprayed right back out the top of the dunny?

Do you remain seated and thread the thing through your legs? Does that not mean you get piss drips on the hose or your hand? Or do you go in from the back? Maybe there's a pre-wipe involved?

So many questions...

3- You don't, but you need freeholder's permission. Usually your lease will mention this.
Ultimately, if you change your flat layout and touch structural walls you may want to have the lease plan updated or an addendum inserted, according to what has been authorised.