How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Do you design benches for the council

No, I just have a wife and daughter who dump shit everywhere it shouldn't go.

We have a monks bench type thing in the hallway that has stuff in, but to get into it is a 5 minute job removing everything (hats, post, school books, bags for life, Christmas decorations that need putting away, etc) before you can actually get in it. Drives me mad.

If I designed benches for the council I'd make sure they were sleep friendly, and I'd also campaign for more funding for helping the homeless.

Sorry that was meant in a more light-hearted jab way than it came across! I totally get it, we have the same thing with the unit by the front door and stuff. and I'm trying to get our new kitchen handles to be of a design where its impossible to hang a teatowel from. (To prevent myself from doing it, as much as anyone else)

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and I'd also campaign for more funding for helping the homeless.

I hear you can crack on and do this without getting a job at the council apparently.

I’m about to start a bathroom Reno, after a leak.
Yay! (Photos show three weeks of dehumidification)

On a side note, I need three new windows for the back of my house. Where/who is recommended? I can’t DIY this can I?

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Fitting windows is actually pretty easy tbh. You just need a level, SDS, impact driver, packers and some extra hands.

Cheers for the reply.
I do have these things but I understoood that you had to be FENSA accredited or get BC sign off afterwards. Is that not the case?

May well be. I fitted ours with our builders, got BC sign off but I don't know if they looked at the windows specifically.

Do I instal my own Velfac then?

piece a piss

They should come with all the lugs and stuff too. They did have a good video, but I can’t find it on YouTube now.

Just watched possibly that video, via boomerbook, yeah looks daft easy, I imagine I could make a real mess of it.

FENSA and BC sign off are completely different things. You need BC sign off. You do not need FENSA certification cos it's a load of bollocks.

How many hands?

They are related though in that using a FENSA certified installer obviates the need for BC signoff

Yes, FENSA exempts you from needing BC sign off for your windows, but you'll still need it for everything else. You can just get your BC to sign off the windows instead.

Given that FENSA is a marketing scheme dreamt up by the window installation industry to to make a lot of installers look better than a lot of them really are I'd suggest that the latter is just fine.

Building control also often a sham too

Yeah but you'd be mad not to get it if you ever want to sell your place

Are you getting Velfac? We're gonna besmirch the Victorian facade of our house by fitting single-sash Velfac to both bays. Full glass life.

As many as possible, pending window size

Prob not. Just some joker on here really pissed on my chips by project managing his whole thing, pre buying Velfac windows, custom trims and getting the roof build I was after. Pretty much need to start my loft from scratch now.

Ha! Reserve judgement till it’s done, still a long way to go…

Minor update: loft flooring being laid. These are dirt-cheap pine ply tongue & groove boards, laid straight onto joists. Will be lightly sanding and waxing with white-tint Osmo as the finish. Cost: peanuts. Frees up budget for other bits.

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Nothing wrong with ply t&g, I’m planning on using through out our next place.

They are going to look fantastic. Windows look great too, ours are a similar size and layout.

a couple of pics of our extension before and after.
we had a narrow galley kitchen and a conservatory when we bought the house.
we kept the same overall footprint, and essentially squared off the back of the house.
we added a new stud wall where the internal beam is in the before photo, which gave us a cloakroom off the hallway and a small utility using the old back door opening.
we managed to build up from the dwarf conservatory wall without digging additional foundations, then knocked through the galley kitchen to give an open plan space.

nothing super fancy, but a great improvement over what was there before.

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