How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Have you seen the price of bikes lately?! We are just poor now :(

Sadly yeah, this is it, isn't it? 🥲

Clearly I just need to move to the Netherlands, the land of cheap second hand trekking bikes and inventive heat pump installations

@TommyRides, we put the curved tiles into our kitchen earlier this year. They look stunning but the tolerances on the angle of the curve are looser than they should be for the price...

A bit tricky for flats with no back yards though

I’d like to get a large white dual-fuel (wet with electric element) towel rail for new bathroom, but the choice is bewildering.

What’s a good quality one, that preferably won’t rust any time soon? Most white rails I’ve seen IRL have at least a few small blebs of rust forming…

If stelrad make a leccy one, get one of those. They are decent!

Thanks; I can’t find a dual-fuel version on their website though…

Right I’ve just re read it, so you want it to be tied into your heating but also have the option of turning on the electric to heat it if the rest isn’t on?

Yep, exactly. Wet central heating towel rad, with independent electric element fitted (with thermostat).

I thought you could convert most wet rails to dual by inserting a heating element, something like https://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/600w-electric-radiator-heating-element

A pair of switched bedside wall lights. Recs?

https://layertree.co.uk/products/wooden-wall-lights

Cant say ive ever seen something like that, you need to be able to isolate the flow and return of the rads to heat the water inside with the electric element. Good luck on the hunt.

I like the way these white tiles look and we'd like to replicate it but with square tiles.

I spoke to customer services and they said the effect is from mixing matt and gloss tiles of the same colour.

The issue I have is about how to best explain what we want to a tiler who would presumably need to have two boxes open at once but not just be using them alternately. Would it be better to just rip open all the boxes and redistribute them randomly before the tiler comes?

Ah the classic creating a random pattern without it actually being random.

Use excel to make a gridded plan for the right number of tiles to fit the wall and guarantee true random?

I guess other issues that have stopped us clicking Checkout are:

a) does it actually look good?
b) if so, would it still look good with square tiles?
c) if so, would it still look good with our lighting (two wall lights either side of a mirrored cabinet, a bit like this, but tiles only up to 1.2m rather than all the way.

Not really hugely swayed towards anything else - all matt square white tiles might be a bit too clinical, anything too exciting might clash with the floor.

To me that seems like even more effort than getting on my hands and knees and swapping round tiles in boxes.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IHrWJiVGQUG4McQvs_eqLqteLBmoEGkyxOlXBW0PgKg/edit#gid=1639899410

Can expand to any size array of tiles… Could tweak the random generator if you wanted 2:1 ratio of Matt to Gloss etc..

Because this would stress me out.

Matt white top half gloss black bottom half?

Take ten (or more) tiles from each colour, shuffle then stack ready to use. That’s how we did a “random” 70/30 split.

Did you do two different colours or two different finishes?

Can I see?

We're only having white - so basically going for what you can see above the line except with square tiles.

Thanks for the randomiser.

I'm not even sure who's doing the tiling yet so. I'll run it by the boss builder on Monday.

Colours. Think the tiler tried not to do two darks next to each other but it doesn’t bother us.

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Looks great. Perhaps we should have gone for 70:30 as well even though it's just finish rather than colour.