How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Yeah zactly, total basic bitch set up, like you’d find in some provincial town like Scotland or somewhere.

Getting the drainage angle right this these tiles looked like an absolute ball ache of a job. The whole thing should be done in a few days though!

the case for the prosecution rests

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Are you sure you’re not just proving my point?

please see also

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Hmmm that's pretty persuasive

Yeah see you’re point there.

You win.

Love your tiles - Where are they from?

How come people don't use aluminium or stainless steel in showers for the splashbacks?

At a guess a) difficult to bond with other materials and b) the morgue/abattoir aesthetic.

Thanks! Got them from Mandarin Stone - these ones are 'Cosmic Ivory' 80x80cm

I'm considering powdercoated aluminium for our shower / bath. I love how tiles look but my design-engineer brain can't handle how shit they are as a shower enclosure material. And how expensive.

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.

We have a kitchen colour quandry.
Tried to colour match the paint with units but the paint we got is a darker grey.
It actually may have been serendipitous as it may not have worked if it was same shade.
And the worktop is somewhat plainer than we imagined.
Alternative option is a light grey-pink like Fired Earth Marsilla (in the last photo on the board resting against the wall).
Whatever we choose now is likely to stay that way for some time.
Thoughts?

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I like the grey-pink

are you also set on having white woodwork? Are you tiling or painting behind the splashback? And have you taken the floor protection up to get a better feel for the room?

I love a pinkish paint so feel like my feelings will be skewed on this question!

Thanks
Yeah we should reveal the floor - that's a good shout.
Not set on white woodwork - just put on a tin of the grey to get a feel and we don't really like it.
It seems trend now is to paint it all same colour so will try that.
Splashback was originally going to be same as worktop but when they measured up they said it was too big for a single slab and there would have to be 2 joins which we didn't want.
So plan now is to paint it.
I'm gonna give the pinky colour a go.

Contemplating a kitchen extension. To a Victorian house, that is this size.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/107543081

My first question is, how do you decide on side return or wrap around L extension in relation to the size of property? Roughly what might each cost?
There is already a party wall for the standard side return.

Thanks for this reply. It's kind of a minefield. In my experience in the past, when I was paying, surveyors charge a lot for a little.

In our case now, the other neighbour is absent so they have had to appoint a surveyor who will do both sides. This ends up not costing not much more than one side.

Money is your answer.
Everything is about 20-30% more expensive than 2 years ago so expect around 100k starting price.
Side returns have the worst return investment ratio.

Aren’t basements the real money pit?

100k!?! That seems pretty high??
It’s 3.5m x 1.6m For the side return….
For the L could go 1.5 or 2m of the back and keep the line of the outhouse…

Oh god yeah, different league.

That’s what we thought….

Sorry I’m struggling with this, can you give me a rough breakdown?

As in my head I’m thinking knock the current wall down, foundations, a steel across the back, a door and small pitched roof maybe glazed, I can’t fathom how this would get to 100k!?!