How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Yep, still think about it daily. Makes me want to move house, genuinely. Looking on the brighter side, could have been worse and been structural/an extension/ had to balance the shit around a young family - just me to sort it out and deal with it

:-/
Tbf Redbridge have done a good job on the aldersbrook estate. It's quite rightly known as one of the finest examples of Edwardian architecture in the uk.

As far as I am concerned Waltham forest can get to fuck they are a money grabbing corrupt bunch of morally bankrupt schisters.

If it makes you feel any better I met someone who used resi, and a resi approved and recommended builder, and they fucked up so bad their house fell down.

Wtf !! How?

I think / hope it will get better in time. All the little fixes and improvements, and you’ll end up happier with it.

I think there are two good routes for that niche - but in the first place do just re silicone it as a fast and good fix

in the meantime you could perhaps grab one of those Karcher window vacuums for post-shower de-wetting?

turgid baton

Well that's my day off to an amazing start!

Didn’t do the steels properly.

We use a £3 Sainsbury's squeegee, they're a quid in Tesco/Asda. We've actually got a Karcher window vac we use for window cleaning but you can't keep it to hand in the shower with you.

Blimey. Builder didn't follow structural engineer's plans presumably?

Anyone used PHPP and done or looked into EnerPHit certification?

I'm increasingly thinking that if we're going nearly all the way anyway we might as well go all in and spray the outside of our house with Passive Purple which will get the neighbours talking.

But paying the best part of £200 for a massive multi-tab 7.9Mb unfriendly Excel spreadsheet* is not an attractive prospect, especially when I basically want to have a play with it to help me decide whether we go that route or not.

*In the words of this blog post which also contains the wonderful line

"And finally, being in Excel means it’s a dead model; you might as well print it out on a piece of paper and nail to a tree in the rain."

I don’t remember the full details, just have the thought of an outrigger trying to float in space and the court battle the guy was getting stuck into.

You don’t have enough to do?!?

Share update pics please.

Is that flusher pissed?

Looks higher on the lhs.

Anyone suggest where I can buy 5 or so internal doors . Something reasonably solid (oak ) for an Edwardian place . We are Penge.

Maybe 5 out? Good spot!

‘Kinell !!

This is literally the stuff of nightmares. I kind of want more gory details, but probably shouldn’t…

Pretty sure someone on here was trying to shift 5 internal doors within the last week...

I really wouldn’t bother with PHPP/EnerPHit in a Victorian refurb, unless you’re stripping the entire thing back to brick and have a £500K budget.

How ‘deep’ are you intending your refurb to be?

I think it was @doubleodavey, no?

Yeah I have some. There are solid but pine. Four panel ones. They look like this....

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Nice doors and I am sure my other half would love them . But as I much as I am all for re using stuff , the work to prep them would be too much.
Can I ask where you got your new ones from :)

Be great to have a recommended place south London we can view and buy there and then..

Floorboard guy is in this week (and we're out). They've definitely had a long, hard life but I'm here for the derelicté vibe of it.

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Isn't the place that dip strips doors still in the Sydenham hill area? (I've been gone a while)

What about select a door on green lane?