How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Yes I do CA a lot now (current office culture) and I would mostly rather not too but I can't lie that I don't find doing the official paperwork a lil' bit satisfying from a ... I am an actual grown up doing a thing...point of view - which is not usually how I feel.

Thanks.
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Thanks too @dbr . The plug sockets would be the toughest bit and the tiles themselves will be a pain, but otherwise I’d say as tiling jobs go it’s pretty straightforward I’d have thought.

out of interest - what does ‘CA’ mean in the architecture world?

Contract Administrator
https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Contract_administrator_for_construction_contracts

thank you! (p.s. shed looks fab!)

cheers - well over budget - natch

par for the course really - same happened with anything/everything we’ve done at ours.

almost like we haven’t watched every episode ever of Grand Designs… (we already had the baby, mind)

Tiling should be £25 per hour and pros can do 1 sqm per hour, so think £25 per square meter (labour only).

A 10kg tub/bag of adhesive is £15 and does 3 sqm, a new float is £10, a sponge is £1, etc.

Even if there's lots of prep-work, or cutting, I can't see how you'd get near £1.5k.

Thanks, really helpful. I’ll always happily pay well for someone doing a good job but just don’t like getting totally rinsed.

If anyone knows a good tiler that will come clapton way please drop me a pm.

So, the stripout of our 1.8 x 2.2m 1930s house galley kitchen starts tomorrow. It's currently a horrid mix of 1990s mismatching cabinets and surfaces the previous occupants found.
I restored and installed the sunray door a year or so ago. Floor all coming up, services to be all moved, new subfloor with wet underfloor heating and limestone flooring. Hoping for a mm perfect transition from hallway boards to kitchen floor. Ikea Metod. Bit scared that it'll go over budget from a labour perspective. Builder reckons 3 weeks. Here are some before pics.

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God that door is good.

Cheers, I purchased it of ebay from Blackpool for £60 with broken glass.
Removed the glass & stripped it down with the speedheater.
Ended up being quite the project by the time it was glazed, installed, locks fitted then painted. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy though.

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I need to do this. My kitchen is very similar. Need to break out the damp cold concrete floor and rebuild as raised timber. I just can't face it yet but every winter I curse my lack of action...

Some of our engineered wood tiles (6mm oak top layer) have splits in the wood coming through

It's hard to photograph but hopefully you can see... it's sort of the layers of grain.

At the time of install the floor fitters said they had to hammer some in pretty hard. This makes us think that maybe now a couple of months on this is coming through on some peices.

We've been super careful not to damage the floor, so it's hard to see how it could be us.

Where do folks thing the responsibility lies? Installers, floor suppliers, no one?

Cheers

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are they all along the grain/knots like in that photo?

Yes. I think so.

Silent Gliss wave curtain fitted today - should stop folk from peering into the front window. The one in the living room is almost twice the length due to the curve so will have to wait until we have the ££ for it

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Really nice, which track and fabric did you use? Complements the flooring and plaster perfectly.

60mm wave track (in ceiling) - Colorama 1, colour 402

Thanks - it was pretty hard to reconcile the tiny samples but we took our time and really happy with it

Floor fitters came over. A bit defensive and annoyed. But they're Italian, so you've always got to allow for that.

They acknowledged that some had defects when fitted, but "what can you do"? (lol) They're going to check with the manufacturers on the finish and are proposing to sand back / dig out the worst, fill, sand, and refinish.

Something that had completely passed me by is that lots have already been filled by the manufacturer, but they use a contrasting black filler.

Overall it seems like a satisfactory result, given they could of said; "fuck off, you suplied the wood take it up with them."

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Cripes, cabinets out. Seems 1990 was the last time the cabinets were changed. Also seems 1990 was the year Millwall went down and Poll Tax came in. Seems pretty real now. Standard of existing wiring and plumbing not installed by us is pretty terrible/you're gonna die mate if you touch this.
Cooking dinner on the camping stove tonight.

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How are the fish getting on?

One not so well, on deaths door it seems.

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Are you planning on digging up the patio? i would probably leave it myself.