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Looks good. Any reason for doing the edge in non-herrongbone, rather than taking the skirting off and going to the edges? Seems like a lot more to get perfect.

I was just looking to match the ground floor, and that’s the design we chose. No way the skirting was coming off…perfect was never going to happen.

It's a style choice. A bit more traditional/grander.

But if you want it you need a decent amount of width to the narrowest areas otherwise you make it feel more narrow. Also double check the length of the peices to make sure the pattern works and you're not having to cut the far herringbone peices to an unattractive length... If that makes sense.

Interesting. Very much not looking to copy.. did our floors over the winter, and was wondering if I'd missed a trick somewhere. No way in hell I'm doing that again.

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Its a style choice, no strip works when on the small/normal side.
I think if you have very big (old) rooms, not having the strip looks wrong though.
I once was in a first floor Kudamm flat, rooms all 30sqm plus, and it looked off without strips.

...architect familiar with classical themes 'ere.
Also Berlin based like c.h.e. so know that best.

It's just a classical way of doing flooring. It really ties the room together (see what I did there?), and it proportions it better, as c.h.e. alluded to. It provides a border to the room, and to the threshold to the next. Originally all rooms had clearly defined different functions, not this free flowing of space that we nowadays want.

Also cost; way back when the tradesman doing the job was a fraction of the price of the material so more labour was spent because it was cheaper.

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Quite into this house (also great location)

Location is great. Not my cup of tea house wise. Looks like a giant shed inside.

Looks like a money pit to me. The (current) bedrooms are tiny too.

Ooft. Might want to see that.

There are bedrooms? Looks cold as fuck.

very good location - but sold previously for £700k in Feb 2022? is there any justification for the +50% increase in price?

I like the strip around the outside. I'll be doing the floors soon, so questions.

1. Do you use that strip to 'square up' the area inside if the room isn't square. This would mean that the stip could be different thicknesses around the room, which might not look right

2. Do you lay the strip down at a constant thickness around the room, meaning that the herringbones might meet it at different points from one end of the room to the other?

I expect that it has planning approval now for extension

Quite into this house (also great location)

Your energy supplier is well into that house 😅

Yeah, this always happens when people get planning approval. Mad that the current sales advert makes the house look worse than before. I imagine the owner has spent £20k on the planning side of things and decided that given the cost is just trying to flip it. I'm not even that keen on the new floorplan.

It’s a potting shed, a big expensive potting shed.

I'd never buy a house made by a cambridge arch academic, but putting mark-mark upon mark-up considerations aside, the extension is pretty ok.

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When laying it you start from the middle (middle of the area between the border, maybe not the room) and work out, meaning that as all of of the blocks are uniform you should have the same cuts to fit the border on both sides.

There’s some garages behind the back of my house. 4 of them which presumably belong to some of the properties behind my house also. If I wanted to try and buy these and then have them form part of my homes boundary what’s the process?

Buying them would be a different process from having them included in the boundary? Very hypothetical question and probably totally stupid!

Great workshop and golf club potential 😉

Why do they need to 'form part of your home's boundary'? If you own them they become a separate asset which you could parcel with your home when you came to sell or sell/lease separately should you choose to. I'm just not sure I see the advantage, but i may be missing something here...

I’d like to be able to access them from my garden - rather than walking c.5mins down my road, round the corner and up the other road

You mean you want to put a gate/door from your garden into the garages you might hypothetically own? I don't see why you wouldn't just do that anyway, faffing around with land ownership deeds etc wouldn't seem necessary to achieve the outcome you want.

Is that a guess or do you know that to be the case?