How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Ha fair enough. I bought a which best buy dishwasher and honestly can't believe how much I hate it. Hasn't broken though.

19mm from cupboard front to inside of handle. They’re actually the OG handles from the existing bit of 1949 kitchen before we did the work. Sanded off 70 years of paint and some chrome and they’re solid brass. Lovely.

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Thanks! They look great.

Mine are a slightly more impractical 15mm. They look lovely, but would have to train the family to use a single finger when opening doors. Perhaps not sensible.

The service core is incredible.

Quite hectic, still need to tidy up the walls and pour some more self-lev.

Second fuse board
Isolators for kitchen
Waste for WM
Underfloor heating manifold
Heat pump control
Energy monitor thing

Eventually it’ll have a pub size co2 cylinder plumbed into the Arke sodastream on the worktop 😂

I want a service core! For the name alone.

How do you get to the hoover? I can’t make sense of the photos 😅

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Winner. Need more kitchen photos.

Which is all bought for and pull of bullshit.

That's awesome

Nice

Sort of Fritzl meets EL Chapo with a Modern House aesthetic 👍

Yep - out at the moment but can check

😂😂😂

That's interesting. Would the cost be of a big fixed window + French windows compared to a wall full of bifolds?

I guess a big old bit of glass still isn't cheap.

I’m sure JT Will give you details but I’ve been window shopping atm and the cost is in the mechanisms from what I’ve found. Fixed windows will be miles cheaper than bifold, and obvs look better.

Exterior staircases.

What are the options? Basically we have a (too short) run of crumbling concrete masquerading as a stair between our side return and a decked area (house built on steep hill).

We want a new staircase. I'm open to DIY, I'm open to trades.

What would be the stages?

1. Knock the staircase down with a breaker
   
2. Clear
   
3. Profit?
   
   

What are exterior staircases built of?

Metal sounds awful but maybe I'm imagining awful staircases and nice ones exist. Could an awful one be covered convincingly by something e.g. decking?

Main priority is safety - so a more sensible length, less crumbly concrete - current one is a death trap. The decking at the top and the side return both get used by a clumsy as fuck child and elderly idiots. Neither are prepared to change their ways so the only solution is to throw money at it. Discuss.

I think that big window was about £2k all in then the one next to it with wide opening mech was similar.

The maxlight 3 panel sliding doors were about 5-6x that

Got a pic?

I back up the big glass thing, in our old house we had a largish pane and french doors instead of bifolds and the uninterrupted view and thinner frame was really good. Cost of glass high but bifold mechanism costs? I think price was comparable.

Not to hand, though here's a screenshot of a photo from when we moved in and, apart from scrubbing and a lick of paint it's not improved much.

The side return is made of 3 tiers/terraces, one underneath whatever that blue thing was (which includes a manhole cover leading to the sewer about 20 ft below), one where the photo was taken from, one behind. All about 20cm step each.

Wall to the right borders neighbour. Crumbling at the top with overgrown shrubbery. The wall itself is fairly sound (chonky Devon stone) but the top is angled crumbly concrete and a strong wind would probably see it gone.

Width of current stairs is around 90cm from memory.

Stairs currently around 3m long I think. And return is about 10m including stairs. Don't have drop measurements to hand.

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Any ideas what this is? A sort of wood chimney that goes up through the attic to the roof. In a water tank outbuilding built in 1920s.

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Somewhere the flue for a boiler would have gone?

Oast house?

Thanks! Even a ballpark £/sqm would be useful.