How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

The more I look, the more I find... the sweet & cute fuzzy angels chewed up all the flex cable and water feed pipes coming out of the floor slab, and we're fucking lucky they didn't go for the exposed, live, pressurised plastic mains water feed, or the whole gaff would have been flooded overnight.

Do you need to involve Thames Idiot Water if/when moving meters

Yes

https://www.thameswater.co.uk/help/water-meters/moving-your-water-meter

Pity.

Then again, maybe I could use all the money they owe me and have them do all the plumbing work. Oh, but they'll be bankrupt by then, having siphoned (excuse the pun) all the money to shareholders.

Oh wow. Where they locked in and stressed, or just having a bit of fun?
Sounds rather bad, hope fox vandalism is covered by insurance.

How does it work when there's other pipes and stuff involved? Presumably I get some plumber to redo most of the work and get it to the point when Thames Widiots send someone to move the meter and then the other guys have to come back and finish it?

What if my kitchen instead has a water leak and requires an urgent fix which causes the meter to be moved elsewhere... ?

They must have got in through a tiny gap in a first-floor window, then gone bonkers when they couldn't work out how to escape. Bizarrely no turds tho!?

Builder is sorting all the cable/pipe/plasterboard/materials damage, but we're gonna have to stump up for the window/door frame repairs. I'm just counting my blessings that the mains water pipe didn't blow...

Strewth.

perfect thanks, and can you use one for both kitchen and bathroom?

no turds tho!?

That you've found

I thought that but honestly the smell would be ripe af

What the fuck @Fox

Yeah feels a bit off. Maybe the stress of planning and building a similar project?

Ok, I admit it. I was just fed up of him doing such a good job all the time, he's making the rest of us look bad and raising the bar so high I feel like I can't compete.

In my defence it wasn't planned, I just saw the open window and couldn't help myself.

Obviously I regret it now. I'd pay for the damage but foxes don't have jobs, money or bank accounts...

Seriously sorry @ectoplasmosis that's rubbish. But I agree it could have been worse.

Were they still there in the morning? I think @c.h.e. is probably right and they couldn't find a way out, at least initially, they do tend to go mental if they feel trapped.

Foxes are cunts.

When i had my kitchen diner and knock through done i came downstairs one night and there was a family of the fucking things walking around my kitchen, which was open to the elements at that point. Thankfully they didnt shit anywhere and gnaw anything but that was definitely a low point of the project.

Smooth pipes allow better flow.
Flexible ones that are coiled collect gunk on their walls.

Got a quote back from one of the local mobs for kitchen bits. How the fuck is an alu splashback the most expensive item on the list? :S

Fitted out a room for some wardrobes and its cost about 3 grand. Material is fucking wild now1

Go to metal supermarket that's what I done.

This stuff was painted/coated. As much as I'd love brushed alu in my kitchen my missus won't go for the morgue look.

I've got a built-in oven. The location is not great (right next to fridge).

If I want to move it to this cabinet under the hob, what do I need to check/do to make sure it can be installed into the existing cabinet carcass?

Answers should assume that the electrical aspects of the move are being handled by a competent professional. I'm interested only in the practical/physical aspects of the install.

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You need an appliance cabinet not a cupboard.

Generally this has a shelf to raise the oven, then a plinth to cover the space

Thanks. Assuming I can install a shelf and make a plinth, it should be fine then?

I guess I could also swap the cupboard for an appliance cabinet carcass, but that that will be hellish without removing the adjacent cupboards and worktop.

That should do. I'd remove the back of the cabinet too for ventilation.

Is there an obvious reason why it wasn’t there to start with? I’d be double checking dimensions and depth of cupboard etc.