How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

There's more fundamental issues before we get there - so probably one scenario we cant/wont plan for.

Yep I agree no border looks better but just worry about practicality of 500mm door - I might see if we can go with borders on wall edges only and what that looks like. Stock items, custom doors and need them done at £ rather than £££.

Great minds - I asked about the grain already which is good :)

Not sure on ceiling height.

@JonoMarshall No bath (it wouldn't fit) but have also asked this question as shower screen/try was what I figured could be tricky.

500mm is incredibly tight to the point that it may not function as a door/passageway! TBH - 600mm is also on the lean side but would work.

I ask about ceiling height as a single door covering the lower and upper units would look cleaner still (IMO). Standard ply sheets are 2440mm.

One other thought: is this the only downstairs (ground floor) bathroom? If so, you may trigger building regs for wheelchair access.

I have just hung a 460mm door for our understairs cupboard, it looks mega narrow but is is actually ok to use (I am not built like a brick shithouse mind).

I am and can’t get through anything less than 700.

Make the door entry to toilet 1000mm with split door, if you want to keep the 5 panel look. Otherwise you'll end up with a space that won't be safe to use. (What happens if a grandparent slips /collapses?)

Somewhat bittersweet writing a letter to my builder with all of the pics you have seen over the last 7 weeks whilst they ‘finish off’. Main things/costs they’ve created for me: shit workmanship, spilled plaster and water going down 2 floors and to outside, breaking intercom, breaking hall lights, flooding garden flat resulting in a buildings insurance claim we will all ultimately have to pay for in increased premium, me paying someone competent to come out an check it, generally anxiety about all the plumbing and fears I will have leaks in the not too distant future (again).
I’m essentially saying I’m not paying your invoice for the last 10% (I’m stupidly 90% paid) and I’d like another 10-15% back for this list of costs you’ve created.

Not sure how they’ll take it. Presumably they have insurance. Unlikely to threaten legal action as would cost me more in time and faf. I’ll then change my locks and tell friends to avoid them like the plague

Could be worth getting some people in to quote on fixing their bad work and then deducting that? Or start off with that.

I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but you won't get a penny back from them. People with that attitude towards their work and other people's property have the same regard for moral integrity. At least you have the 10%.

If you can get quotes and invoices for putting the stuff right, you could try an online money claim. I'm going through it with a non-paying customer and it's actually pretty straightforward. No idea if I'll actually get the money in the end but it's only cost me a couple of hundred quid, mostly just filling in forms.

Yeah folk like that dont give a fuck and often just fold the business and start again. Really shite way to do things.

my list/totals are very in their favour

true on the 10%. I am pissed off at myself for paying 90% of the bill when at the time he was say 70% done and way late. I paid him within 5 minutes each time as well.

Sorry to hear you've had a non paying customer.

Might try that but some of the stuff is intangible at the moment like how much the excess for insuring the building will go up now someone has had to claim

A long time ago someone told me that if a builder has a year in their company name (particularly a recent year) you should stay well clear!

There is was, lol, a development company in sandbanks whose name is a number, allegedly how many million they owed when the preceding co went down.

I'd say 500mm is far too narrow for a doorway. I'd have to turn sideways to fit my shoulders through and I'm by no means big. Also in your configuration this will be more of a passageway than a doorway so I think 500mm will be really imoractical. You'd obviously lose some storage but I think a single 1000mm door routed to look like 2x500mm doors would be much more pleasurable to use.

Right then not only is my shower sealed to the wall with plastic still on, but removing the plastic from the cabinets isn’t easy either. Guys left yesterday, just wanted them out so didn’t check things like that or if they’d patched up the hole in the ceiling.

Plasterboard ceiling, best way to repair that?

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Plasterboard ceiling, best way to repair that?

You are in luck

Fantastic! Thanks

Have a google of a California patch as well.

That's discussed in the thread above. The tl;dr seems to be easiest way for a newb to do it is to screw a wooden batten in to the hole, then attach the patch to that, fill the edges, then finish.

Man sorry for your cowboys. What a nightmare and sour taste to your new place. I hope you can move on and forget about it reasonably swiftly. Stuff like this haunts my head for a while and gets me down.

And mine :(. Completely soured the experience.

And the anxiety that leaks might develop at any time, might fuck the flats below again or that the builders might come after me for the final 10% I’m not paying

I've got a trade coming today to fix some things he's messed up.

On the plus side, he's going to be back fixing some things.

On the negative side, I have to deal with him being here.

It’s not unusual for there to be a few snagging issues, but you’ve had a proper crap time…

I’m guessing if they offer to come back and sort everything out, you won’t accept due to how shit they have been so far?