Owning your own home

I think people get attached to houses easily and dont want to do that also when you've spent money usually a lot, I think some folk dont want to take the hit and then try and play funny buggers.

I also think the last couple of years sellers have had the upper hand and it plays into the EA's hands as they can push that. If it goes the other way and there is loads of house available again which im sure it will then its in the buyers again.

A friend was away looking at a house yesterday, he's like its amazing but the buyer wants 10 percent over HR. Dont we all want more.

Yep this right now is a massive one.

Very thankful we didn't push our budget to the limit because our mortgage has gone from ~£700 a month to ~£1200 and if rates are the same in a couple of years it'll go to around ~£1300 or 1400

Holy cow, the scale of that!
Think our loft head height is going to be about 2.01m, but what can ya do?
Scaffolders are in tomo, kick off next week...

Same. We'd be dead.

What is that strip stuff called that goes between 2 rooms with possible different surfaces? In this case it's aluminium but we need a piece for a room in maybe wood or plastic (not sure).

carpet plate / threshold strip. There's probably countless naming variations.

Threshold bar and there are a lot of nicer options than the one you have pictured. You could get a larger nicer looking one that would hide the poorly trimmed edge. It's not rocket science to fit, just trim to length with a junior hacksaw.

You can pull the carpet out with a screwdriver and you'll probably see how it's fixed to the floor, push it back in with a screwdriver or pry bar preferably.

thanks for making me feel better :(

Sorry, it was intended to make you feel better. I didn't realise I was replying to hippy, just saw your photo and thought I might encourage you to solve it easily/cheaply.

So much s**t happens first try in building, when you have as much going on as you do the finishing details are very hard to get right. I'm usually fixing these problems 5-10 years after the fact because projects just eat up time and money and in the end there's a limit to both that most people can manage.

You know you might be able to pull the couple of loops of carpet that are 'missing' there from under the bar with a flat screwdriver.

The pic is someone else's. I don't need mine for carpet, it's for tiles to laminate gap. But thanks both for the name.

On threshold bar chat, are there any that neatly cope with different heights? I've got one that goes from tiles to laminate so there is a height difference between them. At the moment it is just sloping so comes unstuck every so often if you stand on the wrong bit.

I couldn't spot anything when I looked before but my search terms may have been shit.

There are specific types for that. Topps tiles do some reasonable ones. I've custom made solid oak ones when it's difficult to find a ready made alternative.

There are a few different types, I try to get them wider if they have a big difference in height to cover. The Z bar ones are quite durable, the mdf type from Screwfix that clip onto a fixing are awful.

I know the pic is Tenderloins from his recent carpet fitter nightmare.

This kind of thing? https://www.wickes.co.uk/Vitrex-Solid-Oak-Reducer-Bar---900mm/p/922274

Yeah, that might be good for another spot where the laminated floor is higher than the outside tiles. Cheers

Sorry I’m just feeling sore about that! Our construction team have been so good - including the various specialist subcontractors and work to such a high standard. This was the only thing we organised, it wasn’t exactly cheap and it will now be a faff to resolve as we have moved the furniture in. Along with daughter doing settling at nursery it’s all got me a little frayed around the edges!

I've just had a similar thing. The guy who is tiling my hall said he would include fitting a wooden 'threshold' to bridge the gap from tiles (higher) to wooden floor.

It became a non issue in the end as we found thinner tiles but he showed me examples and it looked fine.

Yeah, family are flipping the house so the whole thing is being redone I think, but in the cheapest and least tasteful way humanly possible.

Is this on Salop?

Yeah, this has been "done", but it seems that means different things to different people. One door is fine but they seem to have forgotten another two.

You know with carpet they can stretch it a bit to improve the fit. It's not easy to do what you're doing, I see a lot of people going through the process and fix lots of problems further down the line. Even the pros get in trouble on their own homes.

Cheers, that may work although it doesn't say what the heights are.

Lots appear to go under the tiles or laminate which doesn't work for retrofitting.

Ah yeah lots clip into a bottom strip which is trapped under the floor coverings, then hinge so that they slope between different heights. Is there any gap between them? If so you could try cutting the flanges off the lower strip and gluing it in the gap instead.

That’s the one!