How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

https://tilesdiy.co.uk/venice-beige-matt-tile-60x60-cm

There will be others making this kind of tile, need to do a bit of googling/image search.
They don’t mention the pattern through the tile but it’s the same tile pics as other places and where we bought from.

@andyp it’s imperial marble and granite, Bellingham trading estate. They were cheaper for quartz than basic corian from one of the ‘we do worktops’ places. They have lots of big off cuts but we ended up ordering what we wanted. Will get them back for our kitchen.

Just wanna be in now…

…but loads of our original floorboards have disintegrated whilst ripping them up to fit underfloor insulation. Where’s the best place to get hold of reclaimed pine boards in East?

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Also, we’re gonna have to fork out for at least another 3x skips cos the cowboys who did work on the house in decades of yore used our subfloor void as a ‘skip’ for all their other jobs, dumping rubble and rubbish piled all the way up to the floorboards.

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We bought from Reclaimed UK in Sewardstone once. Very straightforward but not cheap. They will cut and plane to size as needed.

https://reclaimed.uk.com/

The last time I went to some kind of yard in Peckham where they just send you off into their woodpiles to pick out boards that are the right size already. Much cheaper but more effort.

I think it was this place: https://maps.app.goo.gl/P839XnYFYVSaUyka8

I used that place in Peckham too, took me and my dad hours to find and select what we wanted but they'll deliver to you which is handy (don't know if there's a mileage limit)

You win.

Where’s the best place to get hold of reclaimed pine boards in East?

How many square metres do you need? I have 23m2 taking up space in our house that I want rid of. Reclaimed UK that @tbc recommended were definitely the best to deal with when I tried to sell them, but I don't have enough right now so I was going to wait until we've taken up the rest.

Can send you spec and pics if you're interested? IIRC Reclaimed sell them for ~£60 per square metre and I'd be surprised if they offered me more than half of that when buying so I'd do you a very good deal :)

That's just standard. I still have trauma from all the shit I had to clear out from our first floor void. I've got one room left to do on the FF so no doubt it'll be exactly the same, but I'm very glad the ground floor has a big drop to the soil (c. 90-100cm).

Your place is looking sweet btw!

Wow, that would be perfect! You’re local as well.

I’ll know how much we’ll need after the entire ground floor is up, but about 60% of the boards are trashed so far, mainly due to historic woodworm causing them to crumble when lifted so it won’t be far off your entire stock…

If you took most or all of them that would really be ideal! We're currently paying for storage because we had personal shit in my 'workshop' which has all my tools/materials etc. in and it was getting in the way, would obviously much rather be spending that on something else...

I'll send you the details now because they may or may not suit your purposes but would be great if they did.

@tbc @M4xime Thanks for the tips, handy to know if @Fox ‘s boards don’t work out.

That screams Japanese bath to me.

Oh and I’m going ply then cork click boards for my utility now so all good for boards, all for ecto, although I’ll prob still text ya next year when I still haven’t done the room.

The house that LFGSS built 😂

Divvent y’kna!

You’re all invited to sesh/trash the place when it’s done.

Went matte marble effect in the end. 600x600.

They were half price which didn’t hurt but they looked great in a demo bathroom which was very similar to our setup and size.

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It’s like a game of count how many birds you can see in the tiles.

Got to do something with your time in the bath

I may have missed, but @ectoplasmosis what are you doing for your flooring?

TBC, whatever's knocking around the classifieds I expect 😉

Has anyone suggested Lineoleum tiles? We have them in our kitchen and living room and the builders made a very tidy job of cutting them out to fit the pipes for the radiators.

@Fox We deffo need these now, have sent you a PM x

Marmoleum from Abbott's in Bethnal Green.

They've just installed the bathroom Marmoleum, but fucked it (cracks, tears, lifting joins, just generally shit), and are now longing out the replacement. Already had to cancel the tiler twice. Really shit service, would not recommend.

My experience from handling floor marmoleum is that it definitely needs skills.
Imagine it to be quite hard to put down in a smallish room, unless it's tiles.
Don't let the pros fuck up your excellent work.

Yep, which is why we paid a premium for Abbott's knowing they're meant to be the best... I'm sure they'll fix it and it'll be fine, just the runaround is very annoying.

Thanks - is Marmoleum 'the one'? We were/are looking at corka from the colour flooring company but can't really remember why now and are having a scout around to make sure we're not missing something obvious. Would likely get it installed rather than DIY floating. Currently a latex screed over ply over boards.