Owning your own home

That wallpaper tho. Keep it.

Spending a lot of time planning the new house right now. Running into the standard issue with every small victorian terrace, in that every radiator is going to be in the way of where we want to put stuff.

What are the alternatives? Is it possible/simple to fit underfloor heating beneath bare floorboards? Make use of the chimney breasts somehow?

Luckily that's already the case. It's a sensible 50s rebuild. Though was probably going to remove them entirely downstairs

@tomvanhalen for UF heating under the floorboards i remember my builder saying he could build a sub floor and then insulate it and then lay the UF so that the heat was forced upwards.

Good, I figured something like that, rather than it being sandwiched under laminate. Hope costs aren't too scary

You can get skirting boards that are hidden radiators

The underfloor hearing game has moved on a lot recently.

You can get it fitted into 22m chipboard.

https://www.underfloorheating.co.uk/profi-chip

So you just replace your floorboards with it.

You'd need advice about insulating enough underneath without risking rotting floor joists.

Might be onto a winner there. Very interesting

Definitely want to keep the existing floor, but the joist fitting version looks like it might be suitable for that

Radiators should be under windows, not on inner walls.

Who's making the best bang-for-buck, stylish, modern sanitary ware these days? Duravit? Villeroy & Boch? Budget is probably £2k for bath, sink, toilet and shower enclosure.

Any plumbers on 'ere?

Need a 'report' on our plumbing that I can use to help persuade freeholder to sort out an ongoing issue with the u-bend in kitchen sink being constantly emptied.

something somewhere must be "sucking" the water out of your U bend and using your sink as a vent

Yeah, this is exactly what is happening. It's an epic saga :) I'm really tired of the the freeholder trying to pin this on us, and it would really simplify things if I can just reply with a report from a pro plumber when they ask if I've had it looked at internally.

Paddington way.

You guessed it, nearly. Top Floor, Fourth floor, fifties low-rise, internal waste pipes, freeholder (TMO) busted the internal waste pipe last year then bodged a 'fix' which means it's no longer properly vented but has forgotten all about it....

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Own our home!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-60971332.html

freehold, detatched and large. not in London but close.

fuck me that's cheap. is it built on an ancient indian burial ground they didn't tell you about?

Thin external walls on that. What's the construction?

Softwood timber frame?

I love that house. Surely it's worth more!?

Hey buddy, currently working on a project similar to what you're asking. A client wants underfloor heating upstairs. I've suggested to them overlay floor panel underfloor heating from polypipe. This stuff is pretty thin (around 10mm I think) so won't take anything noticeable off your floor to ceiling. You do however have to sit it ontop of an T&G flooring grade plywood but still thats only like 28mm without whatever floor finish you're going for.

Send me a message if you'd like to know more would be happy to try and advise as best I can

'watchmakers',
let's hope there are no traces of fluorescent paint in the property.

Yeah, it's either sealed or it's been blocked by debris. Either way, it requires a surveyor to get up there and figure it out, but they don't want to do that because it means doing some work. The feckless contractors aren't going to sort it, either, as they caused it in the first place. Their insurance should be being used to repair it properly, but again that would be work to make that happen....and who wants to do that?

Not sure about others - below us moved out and rents to other feckless people, the rest are rarely around and or feckless.

Might fit an anti-siphon valve to kitchen plumbing as a short term fix.

ha ha...well Pocahontas took her last breath not too far away so it's not impossible.

I made a point of not watching UHF between channels!

Dont go by the estate agents floorplans. The walls are solid brick with a dashed render. We then insulated internally using 65mm celotex backed platsterboard to all external walls and also the floor was built up using timber from the original concrete level, again with fat slices of celotex.

Timber was used for internal partition walls as is standard.

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