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Yeah, the guys have boarded it with ply. Actually looked lovely just as ply when it's all new and clean, but it would not look lovely just ply for long.

Forbo - brand - marmoleum is product aka tradition linoleum / lino. Smells like linseed oil . And is lovely.

And is lovely.

I hope so...it looks good from the door but we can't walk in there yet!

That is helpful! I think I'll ring the trade shop and ask what they can do off of retail on behalf of my builder. I can play the 'my builder doesn't have a trade account with an you as he normally fits Howdens'

Edit - just looking at my invoice again. It does have 50% off but this is not really anything as the entire shop has that off everything all the time. Some marketing ploy. So I'm treating the right hand column as the start price

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I've got 2 months to sort it all and now have that design so I think I'll do that. If they say no, can try another store, the trade store or just take the design to IKEA/Howdens

It was back in 2015. It I got 80pc off a magnet kitchen. You need to be prepared to buy it then and there and to also walk away if needs be.

I'm not sure I'm afraid as it was done as part of a bigger lot of plumbing and electric enabling works for a loft conversion

If you're thinking of budget then obviously laminate is an option for worktops. It won't get much love on here and you might need to change your sink but it's cheap and hard wearing. The laminate worktop in my old place probably had fewer stains after ten years than my quartz one in my current place has after two (was a dark laminate and a light quartz though). Would definitely get quartz over wood though (and quartz over laminate if not considering budget).

Also, with cupboard space being at a premium do you really need a quooker? If you don't want an electric kettle then get one that goes on the hob (assuming it is a decent spec induction hob).

I had a similar boiler pipework cover to hvsds. Really neatened things up, you can use a couple of magnetic catches to hold it in place and also slide it out easily to top up the boiler, etc

A stone worktop really lifts a kitchen up a notch imo. I'd much rather go for cheaper integrated appliances and a cheaper choice of cabinetry and have a quartz worktop myself. Wood and laminate just aren't as nice and I'd always not regret spending the extra.

Complete heresy - wood is good. if you ain't sanding and oiling your wood, scraping black mould from round the sink, or looking at it on a daily basis thinking... I must sand and oil that... you aint living... ;-p

Wood looks fucking great....for ten minutes

Another option is solid surface worktops, much better than laminate, and cheaper than quartz. Very hard wearing, and can have seemless joins as well as things like integrated sinks. and if it does get marked or scratched, you can literally sand it back to its original condition.

Have had ours a couple of years, and you are in Bristol? We got these guys to do ours, and they are pretty local to you.

If you aren't planning to stay in the place that long, I wouldn't bother with quartz / quooker.
£3500 of money you won't really see if you are selling on, and possibly both a liability if you rent the place out.

Yup and this is pretty true of most things. Also just ask. Most people never ask for money off or more money off. Or what extras people can add. Once you start and realise it’s not so hard, you’ll do it all the time

Much to my wife's chagrin I make a point of doing so on most things I buy.

Finally convinced my structural engineer to put our joists at 610mm centres. Onwards and upwards.

Two things if anyone can weigh in with an experienced viewpoint:

Fitting an integrated fridge, will make the doors myself, but I’m a bit confused about the two hinge types - one just bolts directly to the door; the other has a slidy thing - pros and cons?

We have to take all the floor up downstairs but don’t have the budget for our preferred wood floor in the living room/hall and haven’t decided on kitchen. We don’t want to live with a plain concrete slab for 6-12 months so thought we could get the cheapest lino? Is it easy enough to fit myself? Guess ideally its glued down, and has an underlay? Might skip that bit. Could well go for lino in the kitchen anyway, in which case does it need a screed to level everything out (as it isn’t)?

So many questions. TIA.

Thinking seamless exposed ply/board above the joists? Noice if so.

I think the slidey things are pretty standard - work with blum hardware - so the door is attached to the cabinet as normal and the slidey tracks connect to the fridge door - pulling it open when you open the outer door. this is what i have on magnet unit with bosch fridge.

Floor - sheet stuff like forbo marmoleum (lino) or vinyl / rubber all need very smooth sub floors to look pukka If the slab has bitumen on it you need a special type of levelling screed too. you can overboard in ply - but that can lead to seams showing and isn't ideal. I've watched heaps of you tube about this - also seen a forbo floor laid by contractor who knew fuck all about it and sort of ruined the project.

We have forbo vinyl glued to self level over slab and it is cold to the bare foot in winter as the slab is 60s so no insulation under.

Forbo do a click fix diy product that you could lay over the slab. I might do this if my colonial hardwood basketweave parquet gets any worse. But its spenny

if you're saving for fancy floors later - why not just throw down the cheapest click fix laminate floor you can buy ? -

There’s two appliance hinge types. Fixed is door attached directly to the fridge, fridge has its own hinges. Sliding, as Sheppz says, the door is hinged normally (though with specific Blum appliance hinges) from the cabinet but connects to the fridge door which opens with it.

Cheap temp floor; buy some vinyl and maybe underlay and roll it out yourself. No need to glue it down if your going to lift it later. Screed or ply sub floor before the final fancy Forbo in 9 months time.

Nah, white painted finish between larch joists. I reckon ply would be a bit busy.

Also looking into acoustic panels between joists in case all the hard surfaces create a reverby space.

Yeah, same, 60s slab, so woul want some extra insulation, may go for Forbo in the kitchen from the off and just cheap elsewhere.

The problem with cheap laminate is A) I hate it, and B) it might be cheap but will take an age to fit, no time or money spare :-)

Thought it might not needing fitting properly, and its easy to cut IIRC. Super.

I guess the sliding hinge will allow me to line all the doors up better than it being on the fridge, and will look more 'integrated'.

They’ll look identical when probably adjusted, just depends which fridge you get.