How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

I would've preferred matching the purple quarry tiles of the patio, but we've got young kids so my partner vetoed tiles in lieu of much softer lino.

Marmoleum is nice & soft & creamy.

we've got young kids

and

is nice & soft & creamy

Not for long then!

Yeah the kids is the thing. We want something relatively warm and soft underfoot (aid breakages etc) but equally hard wearing. It's interesting seeing (after a year or so of latex floor) where the wear-marks are - area around sink and also coffee machine is a state. The rest is unscathed.

Because I told you.
I rate Abbotts, used them for 20 years, man and boy, surprised to hear they fucked yours Ecto.
I’m about to do floating cork planks, will see how that compares to glue down.
Why? I need to raise a floor.

Definitely the one.
From school to hospital to home.

@ectoplasmosis good luck, final stretch must be exhausting.

We've got about a year's worth of wear and tear on our Marmoleum with two kids under 4 years in our living room+kitchen. There's marks where furniture is moved across the joints on a daily basis around the sofa, but I really can't tell if there's anything else. Mind, we've got the bright yellow, so it might show more on the darker colours.

Yeah, I was also surprised, especially as they came highly recommended by a few people, including yourself.

I'm sure the installer was just having an off day, it's just them dragging their heels over fixing it, causing unnecessary stress, that's more annoying.

Thanks - how flat/perfect was your substrate?

Ours is far from perfect which is probably what's put me off in the past.

We've also got a leak we can't get access coming from next door who are unwilling to do anything about it. It's very small (a damp patch in a corner that projects about 5cm from the wall - never spreads further) but I imagine it'd wreck the adhesive in that corner and would be upsetting for everyone involved.

Has anyone suggested Lineoleum tiles? We have them in our kitchen and living room and the builders made a very tidy job of cutting them out to fit the pipes for the radiators.

Not yet. Sounds promising though. Thanks, I'll look into that as an option.

Meanwhile, I've got the quote in for my new kitchen. Looks like the final figure is going to be perilously close to the dreaded 40k figure...

We had a builder pour a levelling concrete layer because we broke down a wall between kitchen an living room, and generally the concrete was uneven - it's pretty flat, but there are a few places where you can still feel unevenness due to the tiles moving when you walk on them.

The tiles are "floating" and are put together on top of a plastic sheet to prevent moisture coming through, so in that regard, I think you'd be good.

Yeah can imagine it’s pretty easy to hit that magic number these days.

They've now come through and re-installed perfectly, using a different installer this time. Redeemed, as far as I'm concerned.

Where's the picture for us to drool over?

It looks the same as the bathroom pic in this post, just not rough as a dog's arsehole around the edges anymore.

Marmoleum - sheet roll / click / tiles / other? (kitchen - wider than 2m, will have island go over part of it in the future).

Sheet is best, but most expensive to install.

always best to go for a sheet in the bathroom...

I worried that (that it would be 'best'). Just don't know how to approach with a neighbour who isn't sorting out the source of the damp. We've had our walls stripped back to stone and covered with waterproof boards, then plastered over, but we're still getting a tiny patch (5-10cm) in a corner so I'd hate to have it peel up.

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Check if your home insurance covers accidental diy damage.

If it does get an sds with a massive fucking drill bit, drill the shit out of it all the way through to their house and claim for the leak.

any idea what's causing the leak?

i.e. is it something simple that you could fix for your own piece of mind?

It's likely some damage above and to the outside. The steps you see in that pic are into a sort of mini extension added in the 50s. Above it is decking on both sides (neighbours and mine). They did some work a few years before we moved in and previous owner said wall issues started around then. Suspect it's minor but previous owner was adamant he wasn't going to do anything as 'just the nature of old buildings'.

Then he died and it's been in limbo (inquest etc). Apparently it's now for sale so hoping new owner will give more of a shit, but if it's another BTL schmuck, like the guy who's just bought the house on the other side and immediately let it out to someone who screams 20 hours a day, I won't be holding my breath.

So who's the neighbour pressing his pink pancakes against the window?

The screamy one on the non-leaking side that has recently been let.

Anyone had stone thresholds/steps made?

Builders have cracked and trashed our concrete front door threshold, so it needs replacing. Was thinking to have a Portland stone piece cut to fit.