How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

I hear you, we have nice light switches but if all the sockets matched them including the 7 doubles in studio/2nd bedroom* and the ones you can’t see behind the TV/Hifi furniture it was more to have the bronze/brass ones to match than we are paying the plasterer for skimming 3 rooms.
anything not really visible is brushed pewter from screwfix.

*2 desk spaces. 2 monitors, 2 printers, 3 computers and various hard drives etc etc.

You can but you have to wear speedo’s and bring your own towel.

Arte forme > Lusso Stone > Vema tibre > Insta reno account.

sounds sexy.

But seriously, do people really just select based on aesthetics without any first hand knowledge of how well the shower works?

Isn't that down to your water pressure rather than the specific shower?

Depends on the shower.
Power, gravity, electric.

You can look at data sheets to get an idea of flow rate. Or look for videos on YouTube

Sometimes they pick them on how far apart the hot and cold inlets are and whether you can be fucked moving in ones in your bathroom and having to tile up the holes.

That makes sense. Thanks all

Builders had been cracking on with the loft, despite not reading the drawings properly and having to re-do a few bits. Of course they now haven't turned up for the last two days and our little front yard is so full of materials I can't get to the bike shed! I bet they turn up just early enough tomorrow to wake up my neighbours....

obviously. Is Grohe the same as Hansgrohe?

No. It's something like the Adidas and Puma thing.

So Hans was the father and the son founded Grohe and later the companies ended up in the same industry.

I really like my newish hansgrohe Vernis Blend Brauseset Vario EcoSmart. You can tell that there's less water flowing, but it feels good and should save up to 40%.

My friend worked for Hansgrohe in Esher and one of his biggest clients was Michael Barrymore. I hope that helps.

Hom many taps does one actor need?

Enough to fill a swimming pool?

Under stairs storage and door into living room went in this week - still quite a bit of finishing to door on the stair case next week

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And thanks to everyone on this thread who helped us go for this cupboard setup 😁

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Secret doors fwiw.

Our living room looks the same and will do for the next couple of weeks as the builders have already hit a snag. Store the worktops flat, or at least on the long edge - might bow otherwise.

We had a terrifying moment with the radiators we had fitted last year. We have electric radiators as we do not have gas supply.

In the middle of the night the radiator in my son's room started flaming / sparking from the core with debris falling out of it and syngeing the carpet. If I had not been able to switch it off quickly it would have caused a fire I think.

The manufacturer/ retailer have been very helpful in customer service and it currently being sent back to evaluate what happened.

However, when an electrician came today to remove it he said it only has a two wire cable, with no earth. Can any electricians ( @Nef maybe?) advise whether this is illegal / doesn't meet product standards?

My concern is we have five other electric radiators of the same model fitted in the house.

I assume you mean the cable that goes from the socket to the radiator. If the internal cable that goes from the fuseboard to the socket has no earth/CPC (circuit protective conductor), that is a big no no and needs to be rectified.
More likely however is that it’s the cable from socket to the radiator only has 2 cores (a live and a neutral), and providing the radiator is double insulted (meaning that there is extra non conductive material between any of external metal parts and live parts inside) it is totally fine. You’ll often notice that on some plugs the top and longest pin for the earth is actually plastic, which is the case when the cable is 2 core and supplying a double insulated accessory. If you look for a sticker on the radiator, I should have the square inside a square symbol on it, which indicates it is double insulated.

Honestly my guess would be that something, like fluff or dust buildup had fallen on the heating element and ignited, rather than a more serious failure of a heating component (but that is just a guess).

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Thanks - that is very helpful and gives some peace of mind.

In the rad itself unfortunately I think it is a serious fault. There is a crack and damage in the ceramic interior that I can see through the outer casing.

Sounds like a damaged heating element for sure.

Really depends on the system you are putting in, if its from an unvented and your mains pressure is good you'll be able to put a giant shower head in and think your in a hotel.