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equationgirl said:
Roof is looking good kabbes how is the kitchen coming along?
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Installation finishes Monday, then it’s the final electrics before painting and tiling the walls and bringing in the freestanding units. Oh yes, and the work surface gets templated next week then it will need a month to arrive. Once the covers come off the units on Monday I’ll be able to take some photo updates.

Bathrooms are mostly installed apart from shower doors and the baths are coming in the next few weeks. They also need painting.

Remaining windows go in on Weds

Bedrooms and hallway just need painting and carpets.

We’re moving back home next Sunday so I hope we have somewhere to shower and cook by then. The house looks a million miles from habitable still but I have my fingers crossed the key issues will be resolved this week.
 
Sounds like it's coming along nicely, can't wait to see pictures.

I'm four weeks in to a 10 week wait for my sofas. Patience is not my strongest quality.
 
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What window choices have you made? I'm interested in materials, probably need to start mine this year. Accoya is still my favoured option but I'll be paying for it forever.
 
mauvais said:
What window choices have you made? I'm interested in materials, probably need to start mine this year. Accoya is still my favoured option but I'll be paying for it forever.
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Steel frame. We went with Cotswold Casements, who seem to do lovely windows but are too amateurish in their admin for me really to recommend them. The big player is Crittal Windows. We got a quote from them too — similar price.

(The reat of the cottage has steel frame single glaze and we wanted as close a match as possible. Building regs don’t let you havesingle glazed any more but C.C do a really thin profile double glaze.)

The master bedroom already has a wooden frame window so the new one is wooden to match — the sole exception. That one’s already in and it’s lovely — solid oak.
 
Yeah, I know of Crittal. Lovely stuff but probably not a match for our place.

Looking forward to some pics!
 
I really like the dark grey window frames for double glazing, if I were to replace the white ones I have. I would eventually like to, as the back ones aren't the right size for the building and I'd prefer a sash window I could actually open without standing right on my tiptoes to reach the handle.
 
This is a big week for us. The kitchen becomes essentially a kitchen rather than a building site. The first of the rooms (a bathroom) gets totally finished. Windows go in. One bedroom becomes finished apart from not having a carpet and we move back in after four months away. Today, we were able to clean a bit without feeling it’s all going to get fucked again immediately. For the first time, it actually feels like we’re in the endgame. It’ll be another month at least before everything is fully finished but the pieces are finally slotting together. Feels good!
 
mauvais said:
Yeah, I know of Crittal. Lovely stuff but probably not a match for our place.
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Crittal looks great (in the right places) but is pretty hopeless thermally.

If you're dealing with a house where the original windows were timber then if you can you should go for decent timber replacements, which will look right and also not instantly conduct all your heating to the outside.
 
teuchter said:
Crittal looks great (in the right places) but is pretty hopeless thermally.

If you're dealing with a house where the original windows were timber then if you can you should go for decent timber replacements, which will look right and also not instantly conduct all your heating to the outside.
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It’s not as hopeless thermally as the other windows in our house.
 
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kabbes said:
Some more badly lit photographs

Tiles in family bathroom (ungrouted)

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Looks intense in the photo but is much calmer in real life.

Kitchen from last week, before the floor had been grouted, but shows the surprise cupboard we could put in after we found the gap behind the wall that had the shield and spears.

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On the right you can just about see the flue that emerges through the flat roof. A little wood burner is going in that corner
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I love those tiles
 
Manter said:
May look better. Less matchy matchy- if it’s a deep blue with grey undertones
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We couldn’t find a deep blue that didn’t clash, unfortunately. So we’re having to go with a green tone on the walls instead, which was Not The Plan...
 
equationgirl said:
What about a grey instead, to tone the green down, or will that cause disruptions of epic proportions?
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We have found a smoky green that matches the deeper shade in the tile. If it's no good, we can always repaint later.

The cast iron bath has been shipped off to a guy that normally reclaims old cast iron radiators so that he can apply a metallic paint to its outside. The aim is to get a contrast between the deep colour of the wall and the dull-shiny metallic bath.

It's not that green is problematic in itself but the dining room is already olive green and the bedroom is a kind of grey-green so the kabbess really wanted the bathroom to not be green at all. Oh well!
 
Couldn't think of a better thread to put this on. Had to come home from work as there's a leak in the central heating pipe under the bedroom floor. We're insured (which I forgot for the first hour or so) and the insurance will send someone to fix it but they won't touch our floor or floorboards. So I've got the crowbar and hammer out and ruined our lovely laminate floor. I've taken the relevant floorboard out (or rather half of it, to save some of the laminate) and right under the leaking pipe found this beautifully fixed junction box:

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And here's the mess I'll have to fix after the engineer's gone:

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Fuck my life lol.
 
We've got a french door in one of the as-yet unused rooms. I want to keep my bike in there to make it easier to ride the thing. There was only one key and the lock was sticking. Of course, I didn't bother fixing it. And predictably the lock jammed locked and then the key snapped in it. A locksmith wanted £150 to resolve this.

So anyway now I own an angle grinder and I've got an NVQ Level 1 in burglary.

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maomao said:
Couldn't think of a better thread to put this on. Had to come home from work as there's a leak in the central heating pipe under the bedroom floor. We're insured (which I forgot for the first hour or so) and the insurance will send someone to fix it but they won't touch our floor or floorboards. So I've got the crowbar and hammer out and ruined our lovely laminate floor. I've taken the relevant floorboard out (or rather half of it, to save some of the laminate) and right under the leaking pipe found this beautifully fixed junction box:

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:eek:

And here's the mess I'll have to fix after the engineer's gone:

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Fuck my life lol.
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Balls!
 
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