Home DIY

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Is that for both jobs? or for the one wardrobe job?
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I'm thinking of redoing my kitchen. It's pretty small (not much over 4m^2) so thinking of moving a door and changing it to a sliding door to make it a bit more usable.

Who should I be talking to about this, architect, builder, kitchen company, all of the above?

Any suggestions for maximising space in a small kitchen?

I would say a kitchen company and builder. Any builder worth their salt can swap a door for sliding. Getting an architect involved is overkill.

That said, is the current door fire-rated? Sliding doors are generally not FR, but some pocket doors are. Pocket doors require more work to fit.

Sliding doors are dead simple.
Don't go pocket door.

We did the old "buy sliding door mech, put on wall, hang door, box off in mdf".
Well. The builder did.
Twice. As we've got a narrow corridor.

I could be on for these. Whereabouts are you based?

Near Shepherds bush W128EU

Tell me more. I've an aversion to pocket doors and have found a couple of options I like the look of. But keen to hear more about what you specced.

I think we went with Herkules. I think. I dunno anymore.
Something from here:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?sa=X&rlz=1C1CHBD_en-gbGB736GB736&tbm=shop&q=top+hung+sliding+door+gear&ved=0ahUKEwiswKK_87vXAhVP46QKHfBaASQQ2wsIlwQ&biw=1175&bih=467

With a normal door we liked.

Merci

Cheers all. I was thinking more pocket door as the doorframe is being moved about 3 foot to the side so there will be a new wall being built next to the new doorframe so seemed to be an opportunity to integrate that in.

It's not an existing fire door (and as a separate bit of fun and games with building control my house already has many smoke alarms).

I was taking into account everything you had on your list. Material choices would affect the price. I'm not a fan of louvre doors as they cost quite a bit to paint, if you are buying it sprayed then that might not bother you.

It's a little bit more complicated than you relying on the water pipe connection for an earth. Your installation should still be earthed by the main supply. The earth bonding to your water pipe is important too but you are opening a can of worms (or rather your neighbours builders have). You will probably need a professional to sort it out and they will probably want to make some other changes to bring your installation up to date but they might not have to.

Sorry there's not an easy answer except try to forget about it and sort it out when you decide to update the electrical system or try and get your neighbours to accept responsibility and pay for remedial work.

My guess would be you'd pay a carpenter £800, an electrician £200 and a decorator £300 for this lot.

Sign me up for the £800k, I'll be there at 7:30am tomorrow. :)

ha ha...
Quick maths

Xcellent. Ta.

Plain pine

I like the idea of a single drawer dishwasher. Space is limited so should fit under the sink and will mean that I can cut down on sink/draining board space a bit.

The only models out there seem to be Fisher and Paykel which are pretty spendy, any other options that I'm missing?

I could have purchased a new car (to me) or have a new path. went for the path.

Nice.

Good choice.

Looks good - I'm considering how to tile out front at the moment too. This give me more ideas!

How have you handled drainage?

its all slightly sloping downwards so there hopefully shouldn't be any standing water.

there is also a large hedge which hopefully will act as an adequate soak away.

it wasn't cheap to do but I think it was worth it.

Not really, KitchenAid and Kenwood do them too. AFAIK KA ones are just rebranded F&P and the Kenwood ones are crappy.

F&P came up with the idea and have practically perfected it imo.

It's not a drawer unit, but the AEG F55210VI0 came up in search results. No idea if it's any good like