How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Exciting. Stained glass window will be brilliant in the new room

Having the bathroom completely redone in October with tiles on wall and floor. Am I correct that we can run tiles down to meet the ones on the floor and you don't necessarily need skirting boards? It's a tiny 3m2 bathroom

that’s what we’ve done past and present - might run a small quadrant along the joint this time as it’s a little messy, but that’s mainly because I did the floor (cork, obvs)

Finally managed to nab our builder (he called round yesterday, unannounced, but not unwelcome). Work begins on the loft bathroom next week. Initial concerns are the floor due to the weight of the terrazzo tiles. Well, these are my concerns, he seems confident he can sure it all up. Perfect timing really as our lodger, who stays in the room next to the bathroom, is away on holiday then.

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That fucking shower. We've never used it and I have since ripped the fucker out as one of the cats was insisting it was a litter tray. It was painfully obvious there was up to an inch gap all the way around the tray, but the previous owners kept using it. Which cause big damage to the landing below and the kitchen below that. They got the kitchen patched up before selling and we got the landing done. Ripping the shower out shows rot damage to the joists, which our builder will now thankfully be fixing. Also, when we got the water switched over to a pressurised system, it was too much for the knackered old mixer tap which basically exploded the first night and saw me out in the street frantically trying to shut off the water because fuck knows if there's an internal stop cock in this house. I'll be glad when this is done. Fixing the joists should also help the creaky loft stairs as they seem to be attached to a fucked one at the top.

Plan is green terrazzo on the floor, herringbone mixed flat and ridged white tiles on the walls (full height in the shower and half height elsewhere), reclaimed mid century drawers (notched out at the back) with a quartz top and round basin for a vanity, brass hardware, walk in shower the full width of the room with a fixed screen.

Yes (at least I hope so as that's what our previous owners did).

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Plan is green terrazzo on the floor, herringbone mixed flat and ridged white tiles on the walls (full height in the shower and half height elsewhere), reclaimed mid century drawers (notched out at the back) with a quartz top and round basin for a vanity, brass hardware, walk in shower the full width of the room with a fixed screen.

Sounds really nice!

I’d strongly advise against real terrazzo. Thick tiles needing lots of floor build up means you’ll have a horrible threshold. Also stain and break easily.
Cork obvs choice.

Not my choice, and it's already in the dining room.

You could consider this as a terrazzo tile alternative?

https://foresso.co.uk/

I'm using it for kitchen splashbacks and utility room worktops. Can't vouch for bathroom flooring but their website says it's ok. They have been very helpful whenever I've had a question.

Received a total fucking spanner in the works with Waltham Forest planning deciding to be a bunch of dicks and saying we need to re-submit planning for our front windows. They are shitty old single glazed lead windows and they want us to replace them like for like. No other house in the entire area has them, everyone has replaced their windows with UVPC. What a bunch of absolute melts. (Yes its a conservation area but why are we the exception?!).

From the golf club thread: New house has different accomodations for different hot water taps. What should I do to get maximum hot water pressure (in the 2 bathrooms) with minimum energy use?

Hot water taps are connected to the hot water tank, fed by the boiler. The main bathroom has an extra electric shower unit (in/around the tub) while the taps (flowing into the tub) are connected to the hot water tank. So previous owners essentially wanted to add shower functionality to the bathtub, but instead of changing out the taps to accomodate for dual-mode operation they got an electric water heater installed (which works, but the pressure sucks). The boiler is at the end of its 25 year life, but still works for now.

My ideal situation is having high, high hot water pressure with overhead (£40k?) rain shower in both bathrooms. Should I just put up with it now, and when it's time to replace the boiler in a few years, just abandon the water tank(s) for instant gas-heated water and change the main bathroom taps? Or is there a quick fix I can do in the meantime? Maybe the ~25 year old boiler can be converted to provide instant hot water, now?

Tbh I'd get a reputable plumber in to tell that to and suggest.

I have a immersion tank and I get good pressure...

What were you intending to do with them? Replace them with uPVC? In my conservation area uPVC isn't allowed anymore you need heritage windows and there is no discussion over it.

Why don't you just shelve the windows for now. Do the building work you have permission for and in a year or so you could risk changing the windows for whatever you wanted and then seek retrospective permission. It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission with things like this.

Great thank you!

We’re replacing with triple glazed timber frame Rationel Aura windows - but without leading. What they are asking for is bespoke timber framed windows and doors with leaded glass and specific handles etc. every house on the road has I'm

There's quite a lot of campaign pressure building on councils to change this kind of rigidity given the climate emergency we're in. Doesn't really help you now but people are working on it.

This is good to hear.

I am in a bit of bother. This was the plan

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The kitchen being 2.8 long actually goes more into the bathroom than originally I thought it would. Top left of the shower tray in that pic is where it needs to end.
That then leaves this floorplan for my bathroom

-Needs to have the washing machine in
-Have bought an offset quad shower 1000 x 800 already
-Unlikely to have enough tiles to do all of that as I bought enough for the original bathroom only. Floor ones came from someone who had stored them for a while and more are not available

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This is a view looking at the 'washing machine area'.

Thinking I may as well get a bath with a screen (I am not arsed at all, and wasn't planning to get one, but every flat does have one and I'm creating dead space if I don't), but it would need to be 1500 or 1600 long by max 600 high. Need to see if that exists, if I can get it within a week, the bathroom shop would take back £800 shower and £200 tray

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My bath is 1550mm long although 650mm high. Used it once in the nine years I've lived here, stupid thing.

Do you have another bath? Is it just too small? Only thinking of resale really. I have like 1-2 baths a year max which I can do elsewhere when away

I just bought a slightly odd flat. The toilet is separate from the bathroom which compromises the space of the latter.

Fortunately not much of a bath person either. It's much too short to lie in properly, have to bend the knees which leaves them sticking miles out of the water. I'm 180cm/5'11, so pretty average height.

How stuck are you with existing waste pipes and services?

Pocket door an option?

I'd put washing machine and vanity unit next to each other with a worktop...mini utility.

Bath v no bath looks like it's becoming less of an issue but if you decide shower only I think you could probably make it bigger and more of a feature.