How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Not sure what it'll be then. Assuming it is/was a real working fireplace there will be a recess of some kind, but like you say you might just have to smash it out and see! Be sure to post pictures of course...

Oh yeh it’s fully functioning, we used it all last winter

Anyone had any joy using a grout rake? I'm thinking of refreshing the grout in the bathroom to get another couple of years out of it before I think about pulling the tiles off and redoing it all.

joy

No. Its fucking awful. Wear ear protection or big headphones and tunes.

Don't forget to vent it once you block it up in that case

Tried a grout pen?

We removed and replaced our shit one.

My two 2p are; 1. Look all around for screws or possibly filled in screws that hold the fire place on. I think ours had about 6 screws holding it on to batton which were fixed to the wall. Obvs Ymmv.

Loft window shapes, talk to me….

1. 2m w x 1m h, top mounted, opens a bit.
   
2. 1m w x 1.5 h, top mounted too.
   
3. 1.2m w x 1.5 double opening.
   
   

I like the idea of a single bit of glass, but also like being able to open as wide as possible.
Sliding windows are prob out of budget.
Juliet balcony is having a single tilt and turn door which opens a little or swings all the way open inside.

Double opening but with a floating mullion? So when the windows are flung wide there is no bar in the middle, just glorious open space

Is that even a thing? Sounds like the dream! Any ideas who offers it?

Anyone used lime plaster before? Think we’re going for unpainted plastered walls and so thinking this will be good.

This is just pulled from Google images but I think most window suppliers should be able to offer it. If it's going in a new wall or a dormer then either the window can be sized to fit the opening (expensive?!) or the opening can be prepared to fit a standard sized window. But I think lots are made to order at not extortionate prices now.

1 Attachment

Learn something new everyday. Cheers.

It will cost you a lot but it’s good stuff….as long as you don’t have to mix it :)

If you've got a way to contact dov I'm pretty sure his walls were lime - albeit painted.

Pretty sure velfac will do a fully opening 2x1 top hung. Think they do a floating mullion too.

Sometimes called French windows. I have been researching, as yet it is unclear to me if I can have flush fitting AND French, and also they seem more restricted in size - at least the cheap ones I’ve been looking at do

Edit: eg this

Although, do you mean sky lights?

Yeah, they are who I’m looking at, talked to them and it doesn’t sound like the 2mx1m top hung opens fully. They would be wild if it did.

Just looked, they do neither :X

French windows, French doors, makes sense…
I’m looking at Velfac which are about 1k per window, which is punchy but they are nice.
Only prob is my builder has never used them before and neither has the “architect”.
Keep me posted on what you go for.

Can't decide which way around to do our rear glazing.

Option A was smaller traffic door in line with hall way so there's a clear path through the house into the garden.

Option B is flip the rear facade so the sliding doors are in the line - more glass so bigger view into the garden when coming in, but a more circuitous route to the garden (unless you just use the slider). The bench along the wall works a little better here as it sits in a slight recess.

Option B would require me to ask for more changes to the layout drawings and make me feel like a plum.

There's access into the extension from the kitchen at both ends of the island.

4 Attachments

I like the symmetry of the first.
Thinking about it it makes more sense, the other way round doesn’t have any reason to it, why not just a triple sliding door? Or a pivot? Or none? There’s logic in the first.

You using Velfac upstairs?

I actually prefer the asymmetry!

It'd have to be a quad slider, which is no. Pivot is no for lots of reasons. In general I don't want a glass wall like everyone else :P It's also 6.5m wide. No one needs that much glass.

Yeah Velfac up top, in red-brown to match the bricks.

I hear ya, and the other options were not genuine suggestions just examples.

Yeah colour will be my next choice after I’ve finished melting over type.

Quite like the idea of matching the bricks but a blue black makes more sense.