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Back up for sale. @Merak youve got mail.

(3) sold
(4) reserved.

Some good touring bits that have served me well over the years, but are now taking up space. Hoping that they can be used on further adventures:

1) Deore triple chainset and front mech. 175mm crank arm. £20

2) Sora 3 x 9 brifters on Easton EA50 bars. Bonus bar end friction shifter included for front mech. £20

3) Microshift 2/3 x 9 speed bar end shifters and Tektro RL340 levers on 42cm ctc bars. Sold.

4) Topeak alu rear rack, good condition. £free. Currently dibsd by @boomboom.

Collection from SE5 preferred.

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As new-ish, fitted to my housemates bicycle and then removed. Certainly v good condition.

£25.

Collection in Camberwell/Oval area preferred.

V interested - I've sent the you a PM.

Ahh man, that is annoying. Nothing worse if they're new. First time I treated myself to some posh winter gear I came off, and rubbed £200 into the tarmac

I've eaten it on that corner before also, but the culprit that time was biodegrading leaf litter and moss making the road slick. It's a spot that never gets any sun. Two other riders crashed shortly after me, ignoring my arm waving to slow down.

Doesn't matter how confident I'm feeling, I now I pick my way round that corner at about 3mph, shaking like a baby deer!

Might sound counter intuitive now that the days are almost getting longer & warmer, but could do with a trainer to get some easy miles in whilst doing some night classes.

Direct drive strongly preferred. If you made a rash impulse purchase during COVID that has been lying underused since, this is your chance to shift it!

Got a picture/drawing and/or links to the Silestone spec?

Glad to see my throwaway comment spurred such healthy debate! I was overexaggerating slightly, of course there are are good & bad examples of contemporary, post-war and Victorian mass development. However, but my point was that society and homebuyers seem to be able to discern the difference between good and bad contemporary design, but are often blind to the failings of the shittily built Victorian terraced houses.

I'd only buy one if it was an absolute wreck, cos then you know you're going to rip everything out anyway, and can price that into the purchase price.

Good luck with it!

The more work I do the more I find "retaining the character" is influencer double-speak for "we couldn't afford to replace it"... particularly when the original construction was pretty suspect to begin with! Victorian houses are not this hallowed typology everyone seems to make them out to be. They're the 19th century equivalent of todays Barrett boxes constructed quickly and cheaply with the materials and technologies of the time.

It's a tricky one, and not sure anyone here will be able to offer any advice better than that you have already received!

MDF treads sounds like a sticking plaster, and really, you want solid timber treads - that stair looks like it's going to get a lot of use.

Everything reaches the end of it's serviceable life eventually, and it might well be best to shell out once for a job done well rather than something you have to redo in 5 years. (Unless you're planning on selling the house.)

If the second run from the half landing is serviceable, you might be able to modify something off the peg from Stairbox.com or Stairplan.com to suit the first run from the ground floor.

Cheers @ketsbaia, will stop by. The lack of excessive climbing is very appealing - much less fit than the last time I was touring.

@pastry_bot. It's my new years resolution to book a holiday more that 3days before I need to go on it.

Will be cycling from Tours to Treignac in June (near Limoges). Should anybody have any recommended routes or places of interest to tie into the journey, please don't hesitate to make a suggestion! The whole journey looks delightful to be honest - that pure, unadulterated, effortless Frenchness that can only be achieved with the perfect ratio of ramshackle farm to sun-dappled forest .

Is that a stayer frame with a clandestine fork?

What's a fair price to ask for a straggler build nowadays? Looking to eBay for a guide, but there's some nutty prices being requested.

Flat bar set up 2 x 10, but with decent wheels and brakes and some nice finishing bits - CK headset, nitto bars.

When the room is small, tile it all.
~me, an architect, 2022.

Terma heat Easy might be a better towel rail (I don't like the ones that have the bars that close together.)
https://en.termaheat.com/grzejnik/easy-one

Other than that, looks fine. Its a small bathroom, don't overthink it.

I hear this suggestion from literally every client as soon as they see a floor/ceiling missing.

I will take these - pm'd

What's your opinion on the rock n roads? Been intrigued for ages, but never ridden them.

Should have made clear Dekton was just a suggested solution for worktops!.. sorry. @Tenderloin there are some good porcelain tiles out there however that come in large formats that might be worth looking at also. My ire was just directed at Micro-cement mostly. I think it's completely over-sold as this do-it-all magic material. If you're set on it, Topcret Baxab is the best performer I've found so far, but it'll set you back in excess of £110per m2 I expect.

The kitchen we're discussing is Tenderloin's as the render in #3963 right? A second sink seems a little fussy... Rather just put the money incurred in plumbing/supplying said sink towards something nicer than Corian in the centre of the room, or a nice lighting fixture over the island.

If a rinsing sink is needed get it attached to the main one.

Don't put your sink on the island, or your kitchen will frequently have dirty pans as a centrepiece. You don't need anything on it - especially if you fancy going for a nicer finish or stone worktop on the island.

Microcement as a floor or worktop covering just doesn't work, unless incredibly high spec and installed onto liquid screed. It's too fragile, it stains like you wouldn't believe, and installation is difficult to do perfectly and expensive.

If you want a concrete get polished concrete. Or Dekton they have also just launched a "Craftizen" range that looks identical to microcement and is a billion times more robust.