How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

I'm a technician but near Manchester unfortunately

You could book half the forum and come down for a couple of weeks to survey them all before going home to do the drawings, all at London prices of course.

List? 😂

I don’t mind the modelling/ drawing but I hate surveying …

I don't envy surveyors having done it earlier in my career

you can aslo view them online in places like https://viewer.autodesk.com/

I'd ask for a pdf copy as well as dwg, that way you can at least look at them without any specialist software.
if you need them converting or anything then give me a DM and I'll take a look for you.

Finally getting started on the garden. Moss and creeping thyme to go between the dissolving paving

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Sounds good, would like to see the result! Gets me thinking, we have lots of paving with loose mortar, would rather grow something in the gaps than remove and regrout. Any tips for this?

Are they the same tiles as inside?

creeping thyme

Do you have some already?

I bought two types. Doone Valley is more rampant than the other. And slightly more volumuous(sp?).

Edit: found a pic of the label the other darker one is just called red creeping thyme. Less vigorous but nice dark tight leaves.

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And same algo to randomise the pattern?

I’ll tell you in two years once it’s all established…

Yeah same dreadnaught quarry tiles.

Thanks @hugo7, will take a look at them.

The algo is better this time I reckon. The internal tiler tried a bit to hard to not put two black tiles side by side in an effort to be “more random” so it ended up a bit chequer board. Outside they just took them off the pile as they came I think. We’ve moved them about a few times so been mixed up a bit.

Still got a few m² of brown brindle quarry tiles left if anyone has a small project in mind.

Ooh, how many m2 of tiles do you have up for grabs?

Your dissolving paving looks very cool.

I’ll count ‘em tomorrow

Also interested if @ectoplasmosis doesn't take them

So we’ve got 337 Ketley Brick Staffordshire Brown Brindle quarry tiles (of Barbican fame)

150 x 150 x 18 with 10mm grout lines that’s about 7.5m2

Looks to be about £990 online, so £500 job lot collected from E8. They have a natural variation in colour so you could buy more at retail to make up an area without worrying about them matching. Would go in a Zipcar, just take it easy over speed bumps. Drop me a PM if interested.

https://www.ketley-brick.co.uk/Staffs-brown-brindle-quarry-tiles

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Bet your builders couldn't understand leaving that brick wall as ks!

Haha, not actually ours, borrowed that from the Ketley site. I’d have trimmed the expanding foam at least!

Lovely, dibs please!

Just gotta run it by the wife first…

For herbs, Jekkas are the best. Try
https://www.jekkas.com/collections/jekkapedia/products/jekkas-stepping-thyme

Looks great, I'll be interested to know what they're like come winter, we are tempted to use them but i'm worried they'll be treacherous in our slightly slopling north facing garden.

Currently thinking something like limestone setts to complement the yellow london brick

Has anyone had wet underfloor heating installed on the ground floor using spreader plates? How did you insulate underneath it? PIR board would seem to make sense as it is foil faced and would reflect heat upward, but it wouldn't conform to the shape of underside of the tray.

anyone with a coloured formica worktop able to comment on its durability, is it similar to standard laminate worktops?

Another pranging moment fitting the bathroom window (middle right)… luckily my measurements, taken months ago hanging out of a tiny opening in the old window, worked out.

Insulation and underfloor heating pipes in, bathroom boarded out ready for plaster and tiling.

Now gotta finalise the brick slip layout for the ground floor exterior. Thinking about using ‘hit/miss’ combo flush/recessed pointing to accentuate the stacked/soldier brick courses.

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That loft is so tidy.
Assume the down pipes run internally?
I’ve not seen any loft that tidy, even by the big guns.