How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Wish we could have afforded the stainless toilet but 1k seemed a bit steep for a shitter.

I wonder if you could get one of these 2nd hand?

Can imagine it's the sort of salvage thing you might be able to get from an old institution being decommissioned or refurbished.

I always fancied one of those inset stainless steel combo sink/dryers you used to see in mcdonalds toilets

Oh me too ! - they are a thing in porcelain I’m sure

Edit. No dryer but still …

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I think they look mint by the way / I just know my wife would absentmindedly lock me out all the time.

Might be one way to get you to actually finish that shed

😘

What sort of windows would best smarten up this 1950s ex-council semi. Existing definitely need replacing as leaky, glass blown, not good u value etc. I think it has to be UPVC for cost (house isn’t worth enough for anything more expensive to be economical). I’m thinking cream flush casement windows (like attached examples) with no bars or anything overly fancy. Will I regret cream? Will I regret flush? End result with hopefully some roses etc will make it look much more homely (and obviously it will feel more homely if it isn’t full of draughts…)

Edit: door has been replaced and is now wood (oak)

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I have one of these showers, less than a year old, and it is broadly good. However, about one a week on average (that I notice, though I am out a lot) it just leaks water out the head despite being fully off. It isn't consistently after a shower when it happens and can be when the shower hasn't been used for a few days.
It's not that much water, but it is wasteful and annoying. Not had much luck speaking to the manufacturer about it. Not sure if faulty or just water changing temps in the pipes or condensing.
Has anyone had this?

Ours does this sometimes, I think it’s just surface tension giving way and gravity taking over. Doubt very much it’s being let through by the valve. I bet there’s a YouTube explaining vid on it.

will take a look cheers

On the shower subject, I have one of those cutout things to hold shampoo bottles etc. It was fitted by my shit cowboy builder, and was done as an afterthought as he forgot to do it. A lot of moisture collects in there and it can get quite manky quite quickly - is this just standard and you need to clean/dry it after almost every shower?

I think they all do that eventually, mastic and such never seems to get totally dry and that can just create it.

I hadn't really appreciated how quickly the waste builds up when stripping a kitchen and the garden was very quickly filling up with bags and I love my garden and wanted it back. I dislike skips so decided to hire a Zipcar and take it to the recycling center myself as the builder has been neatly seperating stuff into rubble sacks. We're in Catford however Lewisham Council make it pretty much impossible to visit their sites with rubble.
A quick call to Bromley council to confirm that they were OK accepting waste from out of the borough and I was good to go.
4 trips with the seat down in a Golf, 2 of which I had to pay for as they were general rubble @ £37 each/200kg each time according to the weighbridge. £51 for car hire. The other 2 trips weren't chargeable as they were wood, metal and other electrical sundries that are accepted FOC.
I assume they let people from out of borough use their sites as the rogues will just dump it in the lanes if not.
All in all, some good exercise yesterday and a bit of a novelty mixing with the professionals on the weighbridge. £125 all up for what I reckon would have been a medium sized skips worth of waste.

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From catford I found the bexley tip at footscray both quicker to drive to and far more accepting of whatever I wanted rid of than the lewisham offering. Their unusual generosity makes the abundance of flytipping in the immediate locality a mystery.

I've heard that's a good one from a mate in Bexley. The ones I went to in Bromley were a 15 min drive (Churchfields and Waldo Rd). All staff were excellent. Helpful, friendly and polite. The sites were clean and tidy and free of unpleasant odour.
Great day out with some sun on the skin, some rain on the skin and plenty of physical labour. 10/10.

Now imagine you did that for a living and needed to earn a decent income - so your fuel, your hours … and then imagine your customer telling you that you’re trying to pull a fast one on them

Yeah, I have nothing but respect for anyone that does it professionally. Moving 30 rubble sacks into the car was pretty tough but it would be pretty relentless doing it day in day out. The economics of doing it as a business would be pretty marginal especially if two in a truck.

Are there any forum-approved slim profile aluminium window solutions other than Velfac 200?

Need to get some dormer windows, and replacement rear windows for our Victorian terraced house.

Been looking at "AluK 58BW Flush HI": https://www.alukgb.com/58bwflush/homeowners-architects

These come up at ~40% cheaper than Velfac 200, with a similar appearance. Would I be scolded for going with these? Anything else worth considering?

They look nice. They have a clever sounding thermal break, I don’t know how the u values compare. Any idea roughly what is the price difference for these vs standard upvc?

Waldo road can get a nightmare with backed up traffic. Council have a webcam so you can avoid mad periods though >>>tip thread.

They only seem to come in double-glazed form, as opposed to triple with the Velfac, so U values are much higher.

They're about twice the cost of bog standard UPVC...

I don't know if they changed service suppliers or something, but the staff at Churchfields since they reopened in December have been very different; friendly and helpful.

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I WAS GETTING MY LOFT DONE?!

Tbf I had to use my lofts supplier, which do window’s similar to the ones @t.o. Posted.

You can get alu for not wildly more than uPVC, ours were only 400 quid more.

What are the ones you used, and the ones @t.o posted?

Pics?