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mauvais when I tried to reckon on a cost, it was based on it being prepared (often where much of the work is) and then more than one coat. I would guess that it might be done over two days. I think you're right to be suspicious about the amount of time taken. Was any spec written down, either by you or the person who did it (eg on their quote)?
 
WouldBe said:
Where does the extractor ducting go? Couldn't you have taken it the other way through the external wall to the right?
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The house has some sort of newfangled ventilation system that blows new air into the rooms and sucks old air out.

The old ait is sucked out through the chimney at the top of the house and the extractor is connected to it.

Developers fucked it up tho and it's much louder than it is supposed to be. Needless to say more work on that in the pipeline.

If it were to go out to the right it would be extracted to the patio in the garden. Not exactly nice! So yes.... Sucked up to the roof!
 
WouldBe said:
Heat recovery ventilation system. :cool: The duct definitely can't go to the right then.

Apparently you can get silencers that fit in the ducting to make it quieter or you could bring fibreglass insulation round the duct hiding it in the boxing. :)
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Developers are going to install silencers... The buyers have been complaining about the noise. They measured it and it is over the "tolerance" in every building. Sounds like a goddam turbine in ours. They are going to fix it.

Likely the cheaper option (dampener). They really fucked up on it tho (developers, eh?). One woman in the block has been going up to potential new buyers and warining them off.

Good on her I say. If you're gonna make a fuck ton of money developing a plot of land, do it right... Or do it twice.
 
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I like thst blue, it's warm and inviting.

I'm interested that the tiles went on before the kitchen went in. I guess that's a new build thing.
 
Boudicca said:
I like thst blue, it's warm and inviting.

I'm interested that the tiles went on before the kitchen went in. I guess that's a new build thing.
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It's a Polish thing. Makes it look nicer apparently. (most places are designed here so the kitchen designers tell the tilers how to mount the tiles). If there's any excess it sits behind the cabinets and they don't have to fuck about with cutting the tiles to size after the fact. Makes sense to me, anyway.
 
FabricLiveBaby! said:
It's a Polish thing. Makes it look nicer apparently. (most places are designed here so the kitchen designers tell the tilers how to mount the tiles). If there's any excess it sits behind the cabinets and they don't have to fuck about with cutting the tiles to size after the fact. Makes sense to me, anyway.
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No, that doesn't make sense, because if the tiles sat behind the cabinets then there'd be a gap behind the worktop on the bits where the walls aren't tiled. It clearly relies on a sufficient level of co-ordination that the tiles are laid with their bottom edge already at the right level, which is perhaps why the british building industry doesn't attempt it.
 
equationgirl said:
When is it going to be finished @FabricLiveBaby! Will you be in for Christmas?
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I sincerely doubt it. There are delays with the floor and we don't have any firnature yet.

Once the floor goes in the metalworkers will come back to finish off the upper staircase: put barriers in and paint it. And then when the floor is in the builders will have to come back and tile under the stair, give the wall in the kitchen a second lick of paint, hand up some lights. Then the doors need to go in.

No chance. I reckon it'll be March at the earliest.
 
Can I just drop in and say 'AAAAARRRGHH!'?

Having, as I thought, agreed a colour scheme for front room a couple of months back, decorator coming in 6 weeks' time, needing to align tiles, blinds and carpet etc, which I'm hoping to buy in sales, I show my beloved some blind samples.

And he tells me he's gone off the idea we agreed.

Every. Fucking. Time. with decor I think we've agreed something and when you bring it up again it turns out he's changed his mind. Happened about 3 times with the hallway wallpaper and only got a decision because decorator was already in and stripping! :rolleyes:

Anyway, he says he saw a house with it down the road and it looked awful, I say can he show me as our perceptions of colour seem to differentiate quite a lot - he'll see a green and where I see a blue for example - so I did wonder if it's the same thing. Anyway, we couldn't find it, but I have said I'll take his word for it.

Luckily I do still have some other samples of the wall, and he's amenable to a more dark duck-egg period colour I tried that I think will work nicely with the room - this has the advantage that it goes with more nice blind fabrics I've seen. Will have to rethink fireplace tiles, but that's something that can potentially wait. I've seen a nice pattern but the tiles might be a bit too big to work nicely around the fire place as around the grate it's fractionally narrower than the tiles so it might be hard to get it to work well. We do know a good tiler, so I expect he could work it out.
 
I did not do any decorating this festive period. I couldn't decide on a paint colour for the hallway, and the valspar colour I did like didn't seem to be available from the nearest B&Q, despite the valspar site saying it was.

Plus I was really exhausted at the end of the year so figured I should rest up. Instead I bought some new shelve units for my craft supplies so the spare room doesn't look like a mess. It's a bit better but not quite there yet.
 
equationgirl said:
Isn't that the same as your hallway?
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The hallway has a speckled white/sky blue on lower walls. This is more a dark grey/blue but no, it's not dissimilar. Downstairs will definitely have a generally blue-ish theme (blue tiles in kitchen too) but not averse to that.
 
Cloo said:
The hallway has a speckled white/sky blue on lower walls. This is more a dark grey/blue but no, it's not dissimilar. Downstairs will definitely have a generally blue-ish theme (blue tiles in kitchen too) but not averse to that.
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For more contrast, what if you went for a darker blue/grey? Still with the bluish theme.
 
equationgirl said:
For more contrast, what if you went for a darker blue/grey? Still with the bluish theme.
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Could do, but gsv would probably balk! I do like this shade, it's from a period range so should work nicely with the proportions of what's basically a formal Edwardian front room.

Hoping to have these tiles in fireplace as well (there's tiling on the vertical as well in our case), just waiting for a sample - the lights in the room have some terracotta in them, so this would tie that in nicely, plus it would just look cool. There are boring beige/brown speckled 70s ones on it currently. It's has heavy black marble surround that gsv hates and I quite like, I'm pretty sure it's original.

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That blue in those tiles would really work with walls of that shade. If the black marble is original, I would leave it in place, even if gsv hates it. Do you have a picture of it?

If it is original I am a little surprised, I would have expected something less ornate for original Edwardian. There was a lot more simplicity in fixtures as marble had been heavily used by the Victorians.
 
Here it is, very dusty, but you get the idea - the tiles on the floor are currently covered with the vile 70s pub style carpet!

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