Super_Paulie

we'll all be buried before that rust effects anything, just leave it and move on. For info, this is my huge beam, i just cleaned it off, primer and painted it.

wow, thats bad. I mean my porch/canopy was shit, but thats another level. That "flashing" is basically a scam, im not sure what advice you need but at the very least that flashing needs sorting out. My builder used offcuts of an old fence (i had stored for burning) in my porch roof and cut the canopy rafters too short so added bits on the end. As its exposed it looks crap and i'll have to box it in with soffit board or something. "Most people make a feature out of the exposed timbers" he said. At that stage i just wanted them gone so i let it go, another job i need to finish.

missus says no. Possibly a traumatic experience in a quadrant shower in the past 🤷‍♂️

I just can't make a regular rectangle work in the room without it looking stupid, the lost corner of the pentagon helps me out massively but it's not something I ever thought I'd get or need. For the best part of £2k it seems mental pricey. This other one is a whole world cheaper and probably just the same. Sick of it all to be honest, no fun this.

Long shot and niche market I know, not I'm looking for a pentagonal shower and tray (1000x1000) but not finding a lot online that doesn't have abysmal reviews. I have found a "Matki-One" that appears to be quite/very high end and with the associated costs which are hard to swallow but if it's genuinely quality I'm for it. Does anyone have any experience with such an item, @Nickfromwales in all your travels have you ever came across one? Matki-ONE

I took a chipper back twice and they replaced it each time. I was 100% forcing crap through it that I shouldn't have been and each time they said yeah fine, no worries. Also my titan grinder died after a year of abuse and they replaced it on the spot with a brand new one.

Just fill it full of foam, cut it back, skirting board back on. That's what I'd be doing.

mine isnt attached to the floor at all. The only thing tethering it to its location is the ducting for the hob and a few cables.

not far off, 5m x 9m if you count all the way across to the dining area. No that is a splice on the beam as it is in 3 sections, the extractor is a downdraft on the hob. For what its worth, the 1.2m i have between the units and the island is pretty big. Its great to be able to empty the dishwasher into a cupboard and i positioned/designed purposely so i could do that, but it wouldnt be a problem to have that gap smaller in my opinion to create a galley.

Might be the way the photo is, but its 900mm at that point.

Anyone got any experience with a 980mm Geberit frame? Does the seat hit the flush mechanism and is it a problem if it does? Doesn't seem a great design choice if that's the case.

1200mm gives me this dream scenario, much like Dave.

all seem the same really. Most times ive bought "Celotex" what actually turns up is Recticel or something else quite random, cant say ive noticed anything different between them. When i had a similar situation i chamfered the PIR going up to the vent and foil taped the exposed end. I replaced the vent with a bigger flow version as well. Seems to be fine, howls a gale underneath the floor but zero drafts above it. 100mm PIR foamed and taped, but my joists were 120mm as i have UFH on top of it.

as long as your airbricks are clear id just fill that with with 100mm PIR if it was me.

i use Sketchup Pro and Chat GPT to render them as photo realistic. Works really well if your sketchup is decent to start with. There is a learning curve but i do it every day for work so its easy for myself. A few people at work couldnt get into it but its perfectly usable. It is license based though so it would cost ya. Well i gutted the room last night, literally nothing in it. Tried all of the above iterations and ended up back to my original idea. A square shower just doesnt work, its too close to the door when you enter. If the toilet is on the same wall as the sink you are sat literally face to face with a shower panel, so that wont work either. Having the window where it is and the fact it faces out to the street (corner plot) leaves my options very limited. The only thing that felt at least slightly right was the bog on the external wall at the back, a 1000x1000 pentagon shower (as it removes the front corner which is the problem) and the sink down this end.

the room just doesnt warrant that kind of innovation!

we really want the mirror above the sink so the window scuppers that one im afraid otherwise it would make life a lot easier. Im not a fan of those rounded ones, think my gran had one so seems a bit old fashioned. The pentagon is interesting but ive no genuine experience of one. thats the size ive had on the design. Maybe im better clearing the room, and then dragging things in similar size to see how it works. Nothing seems to really hit the spot.

yeah its really tricky and more of a challenge than "fun" which i was kinda hoping for. It sort of brings me full circle to the toilet on the back wall again with the pentagon shower. Plenty of room for me to stagger to the toilet after Sunderland win the Eufa Cup. Window is in the wrong place which doesnt help me but theres not a lot i can do about that now.

looks a bit too cramped? this is with an 800mm wide shower rather than the 900 pentagon. I was thinking id need more space at the sink, hence moving it down "into the open" but still working on these ideas.

all great stuff, thanks people. See attached for a few top down options of flipping the bog and sink and shower change to a rectangle. The idea of the pentagon shower was to make it feel less cramped, but im not heart set on that idea at all, everything on the table currently.

the door is only 610mm and its bottom right looking at from the pictures above. Looking at it unhung it looks crazy narrow, but thats how its always been since 1930, i just replaced the old softwood one for the solid core oak alternative, the size is no issue. Towel rail on the wall where the door opens up to most likely. If it ends up even remotely like these pictures i'll be happy.

anything is on the table, im only in the early stages here but choices are limited in such a room, anything considered though. The only constants are the soil location and the window. Ive made those changes, i did have the tap in the stud wall, the renderer took liberties and changed it for some reason. I didnt consider the condensation on the brick, cheers for that. I have a section of exposed brick in all the rooms ive worked on so far, bit of a call-out to the original house which i have essentially carved up. I would like to keep that, maybe an insulated board and then original bricks cut into slips...

i might be able to make that work...

dont worry Nick, one way or the other ive got an agreement for a FOC turd remover 🤣