How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Loft exterior and roof nearing completion. Once watertight, scaff gets removed from rear of house, and excavation for ground floor slab begins.

It was touch and go with window aperture sizing and getting everything to fit. I ordered the Velfac windows months ago on the basis of my amateur CAD drawings, which luckily all worked out in real life. The smaller loft room window sits centred, at the perfect height for a desk, and the corner just about clears the existing brick wall. The larger dormer window also sits centred, with the horizontal transom between panes also at the perfect height for a desk. Arsecheeks partially unclenched.

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Sounds like the previous tenants were below the poverty line and not having a good time 😕

They were the mid-20's kids of a wealthy pastor who'd moved abroad and given them the house, and just ran it into the ground.

Why wouldn’t they have the heat on!? 🫠

Think they were classic louche trustafarians; outwardly waste, with bailiff letters arriving for months after I got the house, but also National Art Pass cards, luxury hampers etc. Left some spooky shit in the loft as well.

That's a lot of work going on at the same time - are you living there throughout or staying somewhere else?

Living elsewhere. Kitchen, bathroom and utilities don't exist. We have a 4-month-old. Classic.

I made some progress in the kitchen project, had to look here on my last post to see how many working days it was. When counting correctly since the last update here 5 weekends, excluding one.

The boxes / corpus where all finished but were not easy to install and level to each other, since the floor is so uneven: someone told us before making the wooden floor we should use leveling compound, but we did not too so because ,it was totally flat‘.

Working with the Corian material for the countertop and the sink was so far OK, it smells not good when routing (also it is really a mess) and the glue also (but only like for an hour so). Getting the material for installation, glue and gun, is very hard as it is only sold for ,DuPont certified fabricator‘. A cheap glue gun did not fit, only the ~£70 DuPont version. We should not have bought the countertop plate cut to correct depth, the ,DuPont certified fabricator‘ cut quality is horrible, chipping etc. on each edge. Lengthwise I cut with the router, nice a smooth (on the floor in the living room).

I sanded the countertop yesterday, 150 > 240 > 320 > 500 > 800 (did not work) > 1000 > 2000 > polish. The surface feels good, smooth but also soft / warm in a way, hard to describe.

I had to fix two small holes at the sink glue area: to fix this material is really easy, make a bigger hole, fill with glue and material, and sanding & polishing again, unbelievable how easy this is, easier than wood. To prevent this glue-sink error - even though it was really small holes which couldn’t be seen - I should have put more pressure on the clamp but was feeling not comfortable put more on it.

But mounting the dishwasher and this stupid fucking part in the bottom took 3 days and lots of errors, including that I have now no material left for the waste bin drawer front.

Anyway, here are some pictures.

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Very clean work. It looks amazing.

Can we hear more about the spooky shit please?

Looking good! Nice work on all the windows, calculating mine took ages because I wanted as big as possible while still having a relationship to the old sash windows.
What are you saying is perfect desk height? My guys said the lowest we could put a window in was 80cm from floor but desks are around 70cm? My original plan was to have the desk and window cill line up, but sadly once again chips were pissed in.

Looking great. Couldn’t see from post history but who made the boxes / doors?

Pretty sure Madhias did

I do tables and desks at 740mm

What’s the reason for minimum 800mm for a window? If he’s sighting regs rather than structural constraints you can do laminated glass to get lower. It’s just about people not falling through it.

Yeah I prefer a higher desk too but my wife likes them lower.
I was told it was building regs - can’t have a window that opens lower than 80cm, we wanted a really big opening window so went with the larger side opening rather than the smaller as most builds tend to.

I think an opening window needs a guard to stop people falling out if less than 800mm.?

Edit. Did you edit your post

Pic for clarity. Plan is for an backsplash to join cill and desk at some point.

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I believe this is correct.

I think an opening window needs a guard to stop people falling out if less than 800mm.?

It's political correctness gone mad!

There's a chance that the radiator (step) and desk position might trigger the same regs too...

Yep, for clarity around opening.

Regs were passed so all good, but i could see how it could be a regs issue potentially. Desk is being built post passing so not sure on that but equally not fussed as room is just an office and locked after 5pm.

As @t.o. mentioned, I made them, I had a look here: it started about 1,5 years ago (but I made a long break because of broken back once): https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/359046/?offset=3350#16544092

@hugo7 thanks! Looking forward when it is finally finished.

Thanks! Yeah, the larger dormer window was just 15mm shy of being condemned lol.

80cm is my preferred cill height, as I like there to be a lip above desk height, and it fits nicely with building regs.

Complete pie in the sky question from someone with zero experience of such things.
Looking at maybe having our bathroom refreshed a bit.
7yr old new build flat, bathroom approx 3.5x3m with shower over bath.
All we really want is for the bath to be replaced with something a bit bigger as it’s weirdly shallow and short given the space.
It’s reached the point that we need a plumber anyway to deal with the low pressure(crappy communal building hot water) and toilet that is always trickling cos of dodgy seals.

So yeah, would like to think it wouldn’t need to be gutted completely but rough idea for someone to supply/fit a better bath/shower screen and make good on the other bits that just need refreshing?
Oh, we’re in E17 if that makes a difference/recommendations.

Fully understand it’s probably got potentially to snowball and not as simple as just buy/fit bath..

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