How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Guess you need something to heat your work shop up...

Been quoted by the local glass company £2,690 for a set of 2.1m by 2.1m aluminum sliding doors and £2,400 for the UPVC version.

He seemed to want to push me towards UPVC and French doors as it would supposedly have better seal and thermic properties but I think sliding will work better for the location/use case and aluminum will last longer.

They said they use Monarch as the manufacturer. Any thoughts/feedback on this? It's supply and install and sounds quite good to me. Builder will make opening and re-render the back of the extension separately.

10/10 for the Golf Club humble brag. I bet your workshop is set to 17° too!

Or have timber prices come down?

No talk of uPVC I’m here please, unless it’s scoffing at it.
French doors would be a good option on that size opening imo.

seems they were popular but no longer made.
https://www.aluminiumtradesupply.co.uk/12367/monarch-patio-doors-glass/

i would do a bit of googling and look at the profile PDF's and see how wide the glazing units can be, how slim and U-values.

Garage doors?

A slenderer laminate does look better. But no possibility of an undermount sink. Still, it probably is the sensible option. I don't care enough to spend $$$ on it.

something to heat your work shop up...

The five hours of sanding took care of that

have timber prices come down?

First time ordering such big chunks in this volume so I don't know really. I'd hope the fact it's Hereford larch not Siberian helps keep the cost down.

The real trick is to find some kind of furniture schmuck to work for free on it.

Garage doors?

I was thinking portcullis and drawbridge actually. One must have a moat of course.

have timber prices come down?

Yes and no.

I was getting 2x1 tile batten for 35p a metre in late 2020.

It peaked for me at, I think, £1.09 in 2021, almost treble.

Haven’t bought any for a while but in Septemberish it was 65p. Still double the first lot I got but better than it was.

The man who owns my local timber yard has a really big house.

I worked in a timber yard many years ago. The owner had a helicopter.

My pal who owns a builders merchants has 2 lambos now. LOLLLL

It’d be so depressing to discover that global supply chain issues, the Ukrainian war, inflation, brexit and covid were actually just a smokescreen for greedy builders merchants.

Less depressing if that meant none of these things had actually happened.

‘Travis Perkins Stock’ is an anagram of ‘Vlad Putin is OK’.

Coincidence?

Big boi window is in

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What it looked like before

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Dats some window. I worry for your local bird population

Would be neat if it doubled up as the tv

Love the frame colour.. im going to have to contact maxlight arent i?

These windows are all Rationel timber, triple glazed. The colour is ‘pebble grey’ but Maxlight one will be the same colour. That’s being fitted on Monday and I’m back down on Wednesday to see that and the lime plaster samples.
the flooring has also arrived and is much nicer than previous sample imo (our floor is LH side)

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I think plan will be to make a seating bench thing along the wall corner - but that will be a future thing when we have money

Yeah dunno what’s happening with the TV situ currently as not sure the Serif will fit now… 🤷‍♂️

After seeing the silent gliss wave curtains on here the plan is to have a recessed track for that across the big window.

Thanks!

More of a general question, do these windows/doors companies offer any structural advice if you ask them out to quote, or are they going to expect you to know exactly what is going in?

I’d love to make our French doors wider rather than replacing them with something the same size but unsure who to contact as step one