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Never spent that much, but a light coloured floor is joyless to clean.
For me the most important things are thresholds and glass. If I were to do it again I’d have the same flooring inside and out.
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Loads of plug sockets. Much neater than trailing wires or having to plug/unplug stuff.
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Belatedly, but something selfish that doesn't seem to have been mentioned, assuming it's not detached, absolutely press on them the importance of a survey/structural engineer/building control.
The last thing you want is for him to fiddle with the boundary walls and mess up your property
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My next door neighbour is a very nice bloke and wants to knock his shonky conservatory down and build a proper kitchen diner extension and open up the entirety of the downstairs.
He wants to go for a beer with me next week because hes never had building work done and has seen me clambering all over my roof/nearly dismembering myself with an angle grinder/covered with paint on a regular basis and hes asked me to make a list of things that it might be useful to know on his first rodeo/things I would have done differently.
Im gonna make a list for him, but id be interested to know what people would do differently if they had the chance to do their building works again?
Me, I dont regret much but I do regret:
1)going for a cheap lvt floor-it does its job and looks ok but you can feel its cheap and engineered wouldnt have been a life changing amount more
2) i wish id given more thought to the lighting, all i did was go to screwfix and buy a load of spotlights and throw them into the ceiling. It would have been better to have had fewer spots better placed.
I think thats all I have for now apart from think about where your sink and dishwasher is and dont have a sink in your island unless u live in essex.
Any thoughts? What did u fuck up when you spent hundreds of thousands?