How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

I'm not a fan either. I'd like just a normal sink, not on 'show'.

I bought these. They look exactly like the images and seem pretty decent quality. We'll be grouting the lines between each with a light grey to match the marble colour of the floor tiles / other walls.

They look like this / are being paired with these 60x60 marble effect.

Install will be mid September. Bathroom starting when I get back from holiday, 1st week of Sept.

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We've only gone for one of those on space. Bathroom is tiny. I'm sure it's less functional than a standard sink but we've got no space.

@Mr_Smyth @skinny

We’ve done a similar thing. A lot of the vanity units you can buy are mega expensive, mega cheap or very much not the right size.

We bought an old gramophone cabinet and put a slab of marble on the top with a freestanding sink with a few tiles on the side where it touches the bath, then extended to the wall and put in a few shelves in to match the colour of the wood.

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Very much dislike those style sinks. The solid floating ones or sunken ones are much easier to clean, tend not to accumulate clutter and much less splashy.

That's nice

Anyway I think the sink unit and sink is going to be a budget saving item as budget has been smashed already. And upgrade in time.

I've got one you can have. One careful lady owner, only driven to church on Sunday, non-smoking house...

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Nice! Really into the repurposing old furniture as vanity units.

We did similar, using a random mId-cEnTuRy sideboard and tiled the top to match the rest of the bathroom.

Wanted the post-Soviet maximalist look, but with shit tons of tiles instead of black marble lol

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Buzzing about getting the Velux position and angle just right for the sun to track across and get right into the usually dark middle room.

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so nice when you start realising those plans in person rather than on paper!

It seems so weird seeing that room with stuff in - it's going to be double awesome when everything is in its right place and you feel like you took it from a beautiful space to your beautiful space

This is a really sweet sentiment, but right now the entire house is absolutely covered in mountains of our shit, and feels like it'll be so into eternity lol

When you get going, it'll be fine. Even if things don't go into their forever space initally. Keep the faith.

We've had some leaks of our new roof and I'm not super excited to get the company that installed it back to re-lay it as they have clearly demonstrated they don't know what they're doing.

Has anyone got any roofing company recommendations in London (South / West)?

How hard is it to replace my ugly blobby gloss white architraves on doors with nicer ones? Will it destroy the wall?

Post dredge but did you find somebody for your mastic?
I have somebody doing the silicone in my bathroom right now who I found by walking past the works van and asking, He works for a detailing/snagging company who do chipped marble worktops and missing bricks etc, the well known firm doesn’t do silicone but he does this on the side at weekends if asked, based in St Albans but got the train to se19 so e10 is probably easier to get to.
Let me know if you want his details.

Yes please!

We want a garage, for storing a kit car, squat rack/bench, and turbo trainer. We have a big area at the end of the garden which has a concrete slab, although it’s probably not good enough to build on.

Haven’t spoken to builders for quotes yet, but looking around at a few forums posts it looks like a double garage could be £20-30k (£1100/sqm seems like a common number).

Alternative options are prefab concrete, or something like this: https://www.shippingcontainersuk.com/m31b0s80p2196/SHIPPING-CONTAINERS-CarTainer%5BREG%5D-2010

I know old concrete garages get a bad rep. Have they improved? I’m assuming for shipping container or concrete I would be insulating and boarding out the interior to make it usable.

If I went down the builder route - would any old builder do it? Do I need an architect to draw up plans?

Can you get away with a container? Not sure you're allowed the shipyard look?
I like the look, and if you don't mind not having automatic doors this looks quite good.

Would a ‘garden room’ type timber or SIPP construction work?
Less weight so might be fine for the existing slab.

Also there might be planning/permitted development advantages?

Will see how the work looks one he’s gone.

Could I get the mastic man’s details as well please?

@doubleodavey @ectoplasmosis
Unfortunately he doesn’t do jobs without seeing beforehand in person so I got lucky as he was parked outside on a booked job for the firm.
Sorry.

Imo doing steamy exercises in a space with poor breathability whist storing something that rusts sounds like a bad idea.

If the exercise bit is something aspirational that you won't actually do then I think those DIY concrete things will be OK. Otherwise I'd think about where you can cut costs by DIY or stagger parts of the build to help with cash flow.

Any solutions for hair catchers that fit click-clack wastes?
Being a baldy this is not caused by me but is down to me to prevent or fix..
Not sure about caustic soda when the flow starts to drop off as will likely strip the brass/anodising on the waste.
If no solutions are proffered I’ll post the pic of the nebulous horror that was revealed when I unscrewed the waste, it wasn’t pretty.
Access panel has now been siliconed in so need to find a solution.