How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

I could probably make something halfway decent myself - not even sure I want wood, probably not the best material for longevity unless I'm anal about drying things, which I'm not. Just a quick search showed plastic ones which didn't really appeal - school cafeteria vibes.

In other news - work surface is being installed tomorrow. Crossing fingers I don't hate it. Already have regrets about getting a standard size sink instead of the extra large but extra large was about 1k, so maybe my regrets won't last that long.

I was going to suggest making one out of ply.

If it's varnished nice and thick I'm sure it will be fine. Or if you want a colour that Dulux kitchen super tough stuff is good.

Thanks - paint not a bad shout - though equally after the past few months I'm a bit 'make stuff''d out.

If you're putting things away that are wet enough to damage drawers, you're doing it wrong. I mean wood isn’t that fussy. Do you store your glasses full of water?

My wife found some acceptable bamboo drawer organizers that I cut down to fit snug.

I think IKEA's drawer organisers are bamboo - not sure about dimensions. we have them - they're fine

Worktop in and looking good. Sink is great and well worth spending the money on to have it as one single seamless piece. It was a bugger carrying it in though.

Only downside is because the worktop is relatively thin (2cm instead of more standard 4cm) the hob sticks out by 1cm, so going to have to lower the oven before electrician comes back next week - think I might have enough leeway from the L brackets currently fitted to get the extra cm but if not then I'll just get a platform and stick some legs on it. Bit annoying as several people measured many, many times to check it would fit - not quite sure how we all got it wrong but ho-hum.

Just curious, not trolling, what does a £1k sink look like/do?

No idea, I didn't get the £1k one. I think our worktop without the sink including upstands/template/fitting/cutouts/radius etc etc was £2400+VAT and with the 'regular' sink it was £2800+VAT ish. For the XL it was £3300+VAT

A decent sink would have been I guess 100-200ish but not having to clean or look after a silicon bead around the edge and not having to fit it separately myself makes it worth the extra 2/300+VAT for me. Next time I'd 100% get a seamless hob as well but ours has slight bevels on the edges. #Seamlesssurfaces4lyf.

As for the £1kish one (XL or whatever) I saw less value. The regular size one is actually bigger than I remembered and plenty big for anything we have I guess with the exception of a giant fish kettle I break out from time to time (but I doubt that would even fit in the XL)

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I have a sink like this, had it a year or so now, one of the best things I have ever done.

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What do you like about it, the half sink? I feel like I'd break too many things if I had a ceramic sink.

Its not ceramic, its made from the same man made material as the worktop, so corian equivalent.

There are no joins, so nowhere for mould to grown, really easy to clean (can just bleach it) and if it does get badly marked or scratched it can be sanded back and bought up like new.

really easy to clean

This is basically it. It's bomb proof. Coming from a ceramic belfast this looks to be a big step up in lazy cleanliness. Though we've been told not to bleach ours (silestone)

^^It's devastatingly sad, but I dream of a sink with these features.

Yep, they really are, have yet to find anything that has marked or stained it that couldn't be removed with a bit of elbow grease.

Oh right, I wasn't looking closely. Yeah no joins is great. My dad has a worktop with a seamless low splashback thing and it's so nice. Slightly rounded join, not a square corner.

I just unwrapped the tap and put it next to the sink then saw how it aligned with the plug hole. Felt like Mama Fratelli pulling pearls out of Mouth.

Just opened up the extractor box and it doesn't come with any ducting or anything so want to pick up a kit today (so Screwfix etc)

This is the hood: https://www.neff-home.com/uk/productlist/extractor-hoods/wall-installation/angled-chimney/D65IHM1S2B

Anything else I need to get I may not have? Expanding foam? Silicon etc?

Comes with a 120mm adaptor thing from 150mm opening on the unit but I'd prefer 150mm throughout.

What should I be looking for - presume something like this:
https://www.screwfix.com/p/manrose-extractor-fan-wall-fixing-kit-150mm/12523
and
https://www.screwfix.com/p/manrose-aluminium-laminated-flexible-ducting-hose-silver-10m-x-152mm/86676

Any better brands / anything I'm missing?

How does the drainer work? It looks like there's a join at the L where the two pieces of worktop meet, that bisects the drainer. I'm sure there's not, so just wondering?

What do you like about it, the half sink? I feel like I'd break too many things if I had a ceramic sink.

Ditto, I just end up being careful.

In the last rented flat, I used a washing up bowl that fit neatly, save waters too as it's smaller than the sink.

The join is in the upstand only, the back wall is bowed so it was agreed better than a big dip to fill to split the upstand and hide it behind the tap. There's space underneath that sink area for a little receptacle for the overflow.

So a bit like a rip start?

Is that a thing? Bundle them all up in there and yank it out?

Of course it is.

In other non butt-play news I've just drilled a fuck off big hole in a wall. I asked for advice from Speedy hire when I picked up the corer and transformer this morning - they said 'get someone else to do it'. Which is a fair assessment. It was shitty and very hard work. I happened to find a brick running in the opposite direction to all the others so it went straight into the core. It was wedged in so it took much much much effort to get out - using long drill bits to get at the mortar around it, hammer and chisel to take bits off the front etc. Eventually got it out then managed to carry on. It got very tricky right at the end - on the far side of the brick it had a layer of old concrete covered by more recent pebbledash. The concrete was very tough to get through and nearly broke my wrist several times even with the clutch, but I got there by starting the drill further out and just feathering it gently. My wrists and back are knackered. Brick dust is fucking everywhere (except my eyes and lungs) and my wife hates me.

All that said I would still do it again. Though I hope it's not for a long time.

https://youtu.be/v4e-LLFx0Vg

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