How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Rubber or vinyl could be good hard wearing options. Usual place colour flooring.co.uk

Yeah I’d be up for that but aesthetically it won’t get a pass…

LVT?

Not what you want to hear, but if you can stretch to solid wood I really, really would. Especially if you're talking about 20yrs.

Our engineered oak floor has a decent thickness of top layer and has defects in some tiles. Solid wood wouldn't have done that.

That said that hard-core bamboo composite stuff still looks good in my BiL's place and has survived 2 kids growing up and more recently a dog. But it's not cheap.

Personally I'd only do laminate if I was diy and OK with replacing it down the line. We put it in what was our dressing room, but is now a kids room. I think it's quite effective, but I'd struggle to drop £ks paying someone else to fit it.

Lux vinyl is a good shout, as is resin. A mate has off white resin in their extension and it looks brilliant. When we looked at it the options, other than laminate (which was actually cheap) every* other option cost about the same.

*assuming you're not souring tiles from Morocco

I was gonna drop you a DM actually as the place you got your tiles from was on our list. Weirdly there’s some solid wood options that aren’t too much more than engineered, but I was under the impression that’s a bad move for the kitchen.

Fitting is part of the kitchen fit and some other stuff so it’s not £ks, but I take your point there

When we actually came to purchase they were the only engineered small parquet tiles with a 6mm toplayer. Pretty much everyone had switched to 3mm. So it was them or a solid wood install from a supplier and fitter which was ~£3k more.

Feel free to msg if I can help. My OH did all of the heavy lifting on this so I might have to go back and double check things.

Forbo marmoleum, like all the cognoscenti

I mean, I would dearly love to set the whole place up like an abattoir

Thanks bud. Seems like places are mainly doing 4mm now, some down to 2 which seems like it’s worth v little over laminate. My OH is really opposed to “fake grain” so seems like we won’t be saving ourselves £600

I would second real wood, it’s the only flooring you can properly re-finish after years of battering.

Russwood are great - I installed their European larch about 3 years ago and it still looks new (with a toddler doing her best effort to ruin it everyday)

Looking for a plain heated bathroom mirror without any gimmicks, as well as bathroom wall light recommendations.

Yet another area where it’s seemingly difficult to find stuff that doesn’t look horrific…

You can buy heating pads to stick onto the back of any mirror

https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/BNMD0329.html

Flos glo ball mini is what you’re looking for.

https://www.lussostone.com/accessories-c16/mirrors-c17

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After some advice please.
Our neighbours seem to have engaged some rogue builders that seem pretty woeful to gut the downstairs of their house, open up the rooms with some steels, and refit the kitchen in their extension. They were available at a weeks notice which immediately set alarm bells ringing. No party wall agreement as it previously seems to be within the permitted development limits and ever so slightly on their side and seems that they've engaged with building control.
Somewhere along the way, the previously 3m structure seems to have increased to 3. 4m and blocking light into our house.
Can see the height difference in the attached. I had a word with them yesterday and they've agreed to stop work until it's resolved which also rings alarm bells as confident professional people would be confident in what they're doing and crack on.
Whilst it's no care to me, they seem to be using all reclaimed materials that look to be scavenged from a skip.
What do I do, get photos and submit to planning enforcement at Lewisham Council? Engage my own surveyor?

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Thanks, these look nice and inoffensive.

Perfect, nice one!

No party wall agreement as it previously seems to be within the permitted development limits

Those things aren't necessarily the same thing, are they?

PD is what you can build without applying for planning (to the council), and party wall is building within certain distances / heights of neighbouring property (and is agreed with the neighbours).

Max allowable eaves height at boundary is 3m under PD. If theirs is 3.4m, they no longer comply with PD and must apply for full planning.

Isn't it 2.5m within 2 metres of the boundary?

It better be 3m, or I’m fucked lol

Had to Google, I was getting confused with garages :)

Isn't that for outbuildings?

Perfect, thanks for confirming.
My partner is much better at communicating formally with these things so is busting out a well written factual letter to the council planners now.