Owning your own home

I haven’t used it but have looked at it… check out the price (if you haven’t already), that was enough to put me off!

We just got our delivery of terazzo for our loft bathroom. They do 30cm tiles. Then I imagine a good tiler could fit them. Tiles come with special sealer too.

They have a showroom but the tiles come from Morocco so can take a while.

https://terrazzo-tiles.com/

Don’t really want tiles as the sill needs to be 2cm thick with a profiled edge and each section to line up with the windows so 1.25m long. you can just about see the join in the close-up pic.

Edit: actually they could be an option as a 60x60 cut might do it and they are 2.5cm thick. also a true terrazzo so the colour is all the way through.

Is that one continuous piece?
If it is that's quite impressive, feels like one of those things that would be very costly nowadays as 4,5 meters is very long
My first idea is try to remove without breaking, add painted to match MDF at the back, save money? Not ideal I admit.
Second idea is to cast a beige concrete sill in place. But that will probably end up as costly as real marble.

Edit:
Just saw that it's 3 pieces.
Talk to a kitchen place. I had a windowsill done in kitchentop material when I got a kitchen installed.

Looks like Turrón.

Yeah I’d have thought any kitchen worktop place would be able to do this without much trouble

"Is that one continuous piece?” no it’s in sections and matches the mullions on the windows

Do you have the same single glazed windows and are you keeping them?

Because if yes then no, a thicker modern frame would likely fill out the gap at back if you moved the original terazzo into the room

Finally heard back from the EA/vendor for the house we offered 40k under the original asking. We didn't get it, but only because someone matched our offer and had a larger deposit. Apparently that means they're more likely to go through with the sale or some shit. Absolute tosh.

Nice window and sills. Any kitchen worktop place will be able to template and do your proposed works. All they will care about is a smooth and level substrate.

Sorry you didn't get it :(
If the property doesn't get valued at the PP by the mortgage provider then the other buyer will have more funds available to cover the shortfall.

Yes the same crittall ones, really wanted aluminium but it looks like that’s never going to happen, found a decent profile/system (Aluk or sheerline) which would be 12k but having had a site visit they need 5 stories of scaffolding and to cut back into the reveal for the added depth as there is zero sill projection outside and Dulwich estates say it has to be flush.
I haven’t had the full quote back yet but i’m guessing it’s going to be stratospheric and then plus a bit more as they probably don’t want to do it anyway.
I also have to pay Dulwich £400 just to apply.
As much as we want premier fenestration and insulation we are not blowing half the refurb budget on it. so plan B the cheaper option is a deep terrazzo sill (28-30cm) and the secondary glazing at about half way giving a usable windowsill.
As much as the existing windows look great the U value of single glazing is rubbish so a new deep sill will give us a trinket/plant shelf and help offset the not so pretty secondary panels.
Have seen a few where the secondary glazing is flush and it looks shit.
That wall is recessed and single skin not cavity like the others hence adding insulation out to the new sill depth.
The Mrs likes 23º so it’s insulation and Tado time as fuel is never going to get cheaper.

Yes, i might contact a few that do silestone/corian for a quote.
be nice to reuse the old stuff in the bathroom but removing it without breaking is going to be an issue.

I think that's a sensible compromise!

EA was trying to get us to go with a similar thing when we sold. We deliberately went for the same offer value but the person with the lower deposit (20% vs 60%) because fuck giving a leg up to someone else just because they have more money.

If they said that we needed a higher deposit to secure the house we would increase it. We're not at the top of the budget so could probably do 20% rather than the 10. We're both pissed at the EA, they're absolutely useless and it's now been nearly 3 weeks since we tried to submit the offer, they didn't give it, then wanted more details on ID/address checking, fucked around being uncontactable, then let a few final viewings happen on Sunday and the vendor went with one of them. They list quite a few houses in the area but we'll be actively avoiding them.

I missed out on about eight houses for this reason over the last year. It is frustrating. You will get the right place in the end.

I guess it’s just too much bother. In my experience EA people have practically no work to do for the money. Everything in SE England just sells well, there’s just no point labouring it..

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Quooker serviced our hot tap for the 1st time today in 2 years

This is the scale they pulled out of the boiler…bare in mind this is with the scale control already in the system feeding the boiler.

Ohh and that’s the 3rd scale control filter going on so it’s not like we have neglected changing the filters

So mains water softeners…

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What. The fuck.

So mains water softeners…

Usually don't feed drinking water taps, but in this case..

So do you have a water softener before the water gets to that tap?

We have an Ecowater one and wondering what ours looks like if you do too...

scale control filter

If it's one of those magnetic woo devices I wouldn't expect it to do anything

No we don’t have standalone softener. The Quooker system has a scale control filter and the water runs through that before it gets to the boiler. All of that shit was pulled out of the boiler…

https://www.quooker.co.uk/scale-control-plus-cartridge-51-116-00.html

Quooker chap recommended we get a water softer, shudder to think what the washing machine looks like.

Secondary glazing might slightly reduce the thermal bridging of the window reveal as well as improve the window bit, since it will be closer to the insulation. Assuming you aren't wrapping insulation around the reveal?