How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

I bought one from Travis Perkins last year. They have loads of options. Or Wickes. Or there are independents like Todd Doors.

Do you want a window in it?

Hardwood / softwood? Is it going to get loads of weather or sheltered?

I made one once, because it wasn't a standard size or shape. It wasn't that hard (ie surprisingly easier than I expected), but I wouldn't bother if it was a standard size, or close to one so cut down-able.

Jeldwen is a decent manufacturer.

Yeah, a window would be nice, it's on the non-sunny side of the house and the kitchen can get a bit gloomy. It's not got any sort of cover so needs to be weather resistant.

Will look in to those and the Jeldwen suggestions!

Anyone moved the kitchen from the back of the house into the middle?
I don't use the back half of the lounge, and it'd be nice to have what is currently the kitchen a bit more open to the garden.
The usual open plan kitchen/back half of lounge thing is complicated by the kitchen being a few steps down from the front of the house.

Obvs I could just chuck £150k at a side extension but I'm down to my last few spare £150k's...

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Have seen it done, did like, can't remember where... Defo on the Modern house > filter > East London.

I moved kitchen from middle to back a few years ago, but can see why you want to do what you're planning.

I don't recall any major issues, just a case of getting the services in and the drains out. We had a new gas pipe and water main put in. In many ways it's easier than redoing the existing kitchen as you make the new one before you take the old one out.

I think we had to have building regs approval to use the new room as a kitchen. They wanted us to have air bricks put in but that wasn't actually a reg, just common practice, so I said no. House is draughty enough that ventilation not a concern.

Designing on the fly as loft is throwing up a few challenges... one of which is the ensuite door being about 1.6m high.

@Sheppz may kill me.

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Eeeesh.

Where are you getting your pocket door from?

Eeeeesh?

No idea reg pocket door, but will prob have one on the smaller room too. Think the kits are about 500 quid a pop.

Builders are bloody great.

Modern house > filter > East London

that may as well be my homepage. will do some more snooping 👍

I don't think the gas and water should be an issue - pipes are all easily accessible as they come into the basement and go past the living room to the kitchen anyway. drains presumably not too tough as there's the downstairs loo by the back wall already.
house is essentially one giant air brick judging by the breeze when all doors and windows are closed

Its not quite Modern house > filter > East London but I remember coming across this on rightmove with a similar layout: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/details/england-82429448-11026333?s=a120f30649b2fac763db11bf13c82a59b901ed6dd805d188d29c1ff31dd24280#/

You mean swapping "dining" and "kitchen?
Understandable idea, would work well I imagine.
The hardest part to get done right is the building installations because normally you don't have the "connections" (sorry, non-native speaker" needed at where you want them.
But, I can imagine something can be done relatively easily in this case by extrapolating the section to under the loo where one would extend the existing MEP from the kitchen towards the former "dining" in the low crawl space next to the basement. The section actually works in your favour if I extrapolated correctly because waste water wants to go down and the rest is pressurised anyway.

Find an architect you fancy to have a look at the existing house and get some ideas sketched up.

Have a pal who did this, works well and now they have a lodger in the old kitchen space. Put a shower/toilet room across the back wall.

Do builders need a ramp to a skip, or is it just nice to have?

Skip being filled with old concrete slabs, loose bricks and soil.

Try lifting a barrow full of soil into a skip

Trying to save £20 in CLS timber?

fuck that without a ramp!

I know it's not the answer you might want but a side return would make the most sense. I don' think it would need to be the whole way but the connection from Dining to Kitchen is an awkward pinchpoint and swapping them round wouldn't solve this.

Where do you eat dinner now?

Used scaff board for £15?

Cheers all. To clarify the ask is more about how to organise everything on my drive than not wanting to buy some wood.

A neighbour filled his skip with waste soil without a ramp so wanted to check. In fairness that dude is pretty hench.

Pocket doors - do they have a bottom track? @Tenderloin show yours pls.

Nah just a top track - do you wanna know what ours are? single or double?

I do too please! Single for me

I need to know everything and see everything.

thoughts on the kitchen layout here? I think we'll keep the island free of a hob and of a sink and use it primarily as the prep area.

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