<snip> Surveyor write to resident saying would you like a new kitchen.
yes?
Good these are the your choices of units work tiles, flooring etc. we will come around with a kitchen designer and work with you to get new kitchen installed.
Everyone is happy Simples!
Not bloody Brain surgery is it?
Big hairy deal - what if you're quite happy with the kitchen or bathroom you've already got, but the council don't give a toss whether you need let alone want the "improvement"?
For example, if the council ever gets around to fitting new bathrooms and kitchen on this estate, unless individual tenants are allowed to refuse it, they'd unistall the wetroom and raised toilet here, remove the grab bars, in all probability remove the lever taps (which are currently fitted) when replacing the handbasin, and reinstall an unusable bath. Then there'd be at least 6 months to get the assessments, paperwork, and material work done to reinstate the wetroom etc,
I expect this because when it was decreed that all bathrooms had to be fitted with an extractor fan, the contractors insisted on ripping out the existing one (fitted and paid for by social services as part of the wetroom conversion) and replacing it with a smaller, quieter, but far less powerful fan. They could see an extractor fan already in place, they knew that it worked, and they still ripped it out.
I might add that the tiler was kind enough to offer to let VP and I choose the tile colour, as long as we bought them, and did so within 3 days. There was no way we could find so much money quickly enough, with no prior warning. White it was.
