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We have a Blanco Silgranite sink, the colour is anthracite - 11 years old. We live in a very hard water area. For the first few years it looked great, now it has faint grey areas / limescale staining. I have spent hours trying to clean it - I have even used the cleaning product that Blanco produce, with limited / varying results. Once cleaned and then coated with a layer of chopping board oil (the stuff Ikea sell) it looks as good as new for a couple of weeks, then it needs doing again. I am swaying towards a stainless steel sink when we have our new kitchen, but every Kitchen showroom we have recently visited all favour the composite sinks.

If they fit it like that they may as well leave it out.

Not bad. Printed with speed in mind rather than anything else. Absolutely useless on the car as it would melt! ?

All parts excluding the motors on the gates are claimable You’re drive vat will be claimable But be very careful Starting them will effect your Cil agreement and may effect your planning As no commencement notice has been issued yet

Mine is a Franke. The best point is that the order is half-sink sink drainer, which means that mucky stuff in the half sink can be done whilst stuff is draining. My favourite sinks are sit on top, whiach mean there are no joints to go manky and no oles in worktops to cut.

IWI is done.* First batch of TRVs (Radbot) made and even being sold on QVC! Fundraising on Seedrs now for the next stage. We had a year of data scientist and product champion which made some really helpful improvements over just engineers fiddling for years! Rgds Damon * House may be CPOed and torn down, which is slightly annoying, but I shall resist getting in all my moaning in on this post...

Not necessarily, it’s actually fairly safe if not disturbed in a way to make dust, I would be happy to bury it on my site if I new it would never get disturbed in the future.

No, but being oak, it will shrink a fair bit and it will most likely break the joints first before anything else. I'm just fussy and would try and do in one piece if poss

When we visited the showroom they had one they had been using for two years that was white and this was spotless The surface is so hard that you can’t scratch it We put hot trays in out of the oven and it doesn’t seem to bother it The brown colour is guaranteed against fading or marking It wasn’t cheap But being as it was being bonded to the quarts worktop we didn’t want to be replacing it We have a stainless Blanco in the utility That seems ok But I wouldn’t think it would be as durable

I've decided on something of a rarity for our new kitchen (yes, the kitchen is pretty much my domain). Double bowl/ double drainer https://www.grandtaps.co.uk/products/1500-x-480mm-commercial-two-bowl-double-drainer-kitchen-sink-f01?variant=12346085933161&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google Shopping&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqNimnuXS5gIVF-DtCh1GNgbWEAQYAyABEgKtl_D_BwE but there isn't much choice out there that I can see with a single tap hole. I'm wondering whether a 2- hole one might be better, punching a third in the middle for the tap and using the two original holes for pop-up waste controls...

Ours is enamled steel under mounted. Never again. Enamel stains and the sealer goes mouldy and is impossible to replace without removing granite worktop. Oh and it's too small.

I've never seen any come out of ours in 13 years. Wasy your house still drying out the first winter?

Any idea what the indoor RH was the first winter? I'm thinking it might have been a lot higher than this winter as the fairly newly built structure was drying out. Also, have you checked what the exhaust air (from the exchanger to the outside) temperature is? Technically it ought to be condensing but not hugely. Rough rule-of-thumb calculation says condensation should start at about 13°C from 22°C, RH 0.55. PS, welcome to the forum!

The Siga Sicrall sticks well enough to pull individual beads out of the EPS.

My bath is massive and boxed in. A couple of things I did which really work are partially sink it into the floor so there's no level change stepping in and out. I also sloped the sides inward so you can stand closer when reaching over to the taps etc. The taps also have a quick release system for changing them etc. Pre grouting the bath sides: There's 150mm of pir under the bath (under the grey painted concrete) except where the sunken bit is, only 50mm under that bit. The side walls have 50mm pir then 50mm eps where the bath is. It does stay warm tba.

Brushed steel so doesn't really show up scratches, they soon just blend right in