How do I bathroom / kitchen / extension? etc.

Talking about this?

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Yup

I'd not take £500 for day light.

You'd need to know if the window has a right of light.

Planning is a separate issue.

It's not just about agreeing the compensation £££ can blow up pretty quickly. Legal fees, surveyor's (yours and theirs) fees all add up.

Ah that is not what I want to hear. Part of the idea was ease of installation over tiles around a bath.

Thank you.

To you and @Soul

What were the panels over tiles or bare walls?

Mine are over foam-core backer/marine ply, which themselves are over stud wall and ancient plaster.

One was over a replastered brick wall and one was over an insulated stud wall containing the plumbing for the shower.

Pics:

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That looks way better than ours did!

So another 6 to 8 weeks for the replacement window so there's at least a chance it'll be done before Christmas 😂.

Fitting them has at least allowed us to get my daughter's bedroom decorated and move her back in this weekend, this will dramatically improve things in the house so I'm feeling a lot more zen about the whole thing. Plus getting them in has allowed us to get a feel for how it'll be and the room will be brilliant for us when it's done.

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so you currently have a vertical sliding window?! amazing!

i'm sure you've got a good reason for wanting a sliding window in a gap that narrow, but i'm intrigued as to why...?

bizzarely

And then some. And weirdly discomfiting, given that it's a bathroom.

Tbh, we did everything in such a rush (due to having 2 babies and no brains working) we just thought it would work. No one flagged it but we can't have a sliding door any way at that width so we're gonna end up with fixed window at the bottom and top opening. So it'll look pretty much the same.

It's definitely the best option, so at least it's a fuck up that'll lead to something better.

I have a feeling you will have zero chance of getting that window covered and it will actually limit how far you can build out by quite a bit.

take a photo of the view from the window then stick it on the outside before you build - job jobbed!
it's a bit of a weird one isn't it? are any of the other houses extended on that run?
might be a good indicator as to if it's possible or not.

Big week at ours so I’ll share a few pics. Kitchen has been plastered so I can get the kitchen delivered to be fitted next year.

The most exciting development was getting the underfloor heating switched on. I’ve pretty much designed this myself so pleased to say it seems to work nicely to the point where our electrician was complaining of being too hot. The pic is pre screed for illustration.

Builders cracking on with the curved retaining walls outside.

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Knocked on the door of the only place on the road to have a rear extension today - this is how they dealt with it. I guess the air brick was swapped in as part of their works, though it was the previous owner that did it so not 100% sure.

I guess we can live with ~500mm less width. It's still 6000mm wide so generous proportions.

Offered on it anyway, so we'll see.

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ooh that looks so cleeean. I think I want that rather than tiles round the bath.

that looks grim. at least make the gap big enough that if a kitten/ small child gets stuck in there you have some hope of going in to retrieve them!

i guess as it was done by the previous owner, they wouldn't know if the window was already bricked up before they extended...
we have a similar sized gap between our party wall and the neighbours extension, as they had a falling out with the lady that owned our house before us and she wouldn't agree to letting them build up from the party wall.
it left a really ugly gap, which was bricked over at the front, then they'd badly tiled over the gap so that water ran directly onto the flat roof of our kitchen - not ideal!
we've since rectified it by having a full width pitched roof that extends over the boundary line and ties into their wall completely enclosing the gap.

when we took the tiles off that covered the gap there was a massive wasp nest inside!

Why not a really small patio in front of that strange window?
1x1m is enough for a nice plant, you get light, and don't create a gap that you can't access.

[user dbr's back garden]

me: [chanting] internal courtyard, internal courtyard-

other users: internal courtyard, INTERNAL COURTYARD

user fox: [pounding a clipboard] INTERNAL COURTYARD, INTERNAL COURTYARD, INTERNAL COURTYARD!

It’s got a 20m garden so I’m not too worried about a patio. Tbh if the lady I spoke to last week is the owner I reckon I could build up to the boundary wall and block that window with her permission. In exchange for a new shed or something. It’s a window into a cupboard under the stairs, so not exactly a big impact on quality of light in her house. The extension would be smaller than the existing boundary wall too so there’s no issue of loss of light to the other property or garden.

Aaand offer accepted. Expect bespoke joinery throughout.