canalsiderenovation

Yes I think you are right re the flashing. Local lads and definitely specialists. I'm so glad we insisted on it being taken off. Thank you to everyone who gave me advice, it gave me the confidence to challenge it and insist on it being redone.

I think so, also the firrings are either side of the rooflight for the drop. Bl@@dy acorns are dropping on it now and I'm literally monitoring it like a hawk picking them off as they fall.

So.... Old roof off this week, firings sorted so our roof has a fall on it and the professionals arrived today for the GRPing, thank god it's dry. On site at the moment and just had a sneak peak. We are so pleased with this compared to previous. This is the fall, not sure how the builders are going to deal with the exposed wood yet. Credit to the guys who were on site before 8am.

It's an Internorm front door but we actually got it from eBay from an Internorm distributor (not the one we used for our windows). We had a Solidor one in out last house and it was still in when we sold it 10 years later. The one for our house now was also ex showroom, customer failed order and was £180 so if it lasts for a few years I'll be happy. Quality seems better than Solidor but I'm not sure exactly what make it is (not fitted yet).

I don't know, I think it's how they sit on. My parents something similar on their UPVC ones and they keep falling off.

Thanks @MikeGrahamT21 I have issues with the end caps!

That would be really appreciated @MikeGrahamT21 thanks.

I've never heard of Duraboard, this looks good. So you don't have to paint it?

Yep, that's what we are looking at getting. May be able to find one a bit cheaper with the humidity module too.

@ProDave what window boards warped? Were these MDF? I hardly see PVC mentioned here. Is there a reason? My parents have them and they have scratched badly. I know a friend who had granite to match her worktop (black). I suspect these may be quite expensive (10 required) and I'm not sure how they would look given we won't have granite in other rooms. It would also need to be quite neutral against the white.

Yep that's the one I'm looking at and we had previously (I think it was the Icon 30 though).

I know this can be an issue. One plus of this fan we found in our last house was that it opens and closes up after use. It was a replacement for a previous fan and we really noticed a difference.

We have an ex display kitchen purchased and it has a hob built in and to be honest I wasn't a fan of these and don't want to purchase an alternative hob or start cutting out worktops/units to make it work. We wanted to make it less noticeable. We looked at this one but it's only in black not white and a bit bigger than what we would like. I'm just tempted to go with the fan than pay a few hundreds of pounds more for something we will never use.

Our one other option is to just go for a fan on a different wall like this which meets building regs. It would certainly save us a bit of money https://www.tradingdepot.co.uk/airflow-icon-60-centrifugal-extractor-fan-suitable-for-bathrooms-utility-rooms We have had this before and it's quite good as it open and closes automatically with the PIR/humidity module. I'm sure I saw another user on here had one in their kitchen but I can't remember who it was.

I know, may be able to get it a bit cheaper but it's the smallest, most discrete one I can find.

Our builder has asked us to consider which window boards we want inside. We have no idea, as long as they are white as our uPVC aluclad windows from Internorm are white inside. He mentioned MDF which has conjured up all sorts of images of Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen creating all sorts of monstrosities on Changing Rooms! Any suggestions?

So we have been doing some searching into finding the smallest and most inconspicuous looking extractor. In the end we wondered if something like this would be suitable to go into the ceiling. It wouldn't be exactly over the hob, probably only over a quarter of it because the hob is part way between the pitched ceiling and flat ceiling but this extractor is very slim and only 300*350 and just in case we do decide we need to cook greasy food we have an extractor (although our hob is bigger I see no reason to go for the larger measurements). I'm hoping this would be fairly inconspicuous. https://luxairhoods.com/ceiling-cooker-hoods-slimline/powerful-slimline-ceiling-cooker-hood-white

Spoke to sparky and going to get faceplates sorted behind three TV points which, with the hubs should cover each area of the house. If only we could get a decent mobile signal too!

I wasn't expecting it to appear that big!!

Thanks I think we will go down the wireless route which will be OK to install ourselves we just need to tackle our poor WiFi.

The knobs we are looking at are like this:

I'll have to have a look at regs now. The only handles we like are almost triple the cost of the door knobs ? So if these are unsprung knobs they are relying on the latch then?

I know many people aren't a fan of door knobs v handles but we tend to prefer them, I just hope they go with our modern look. I think @Kev106 may have had the same ones we are looking at from Delamain Carlisle Brass so hopefully he can give an update on how he is finding them. When it says 'unsprung' what does this mean and is it likely to cause problems?

So sounds like a wireless camera system will be best like Blink or Arlo rather than a wired alarm I think thanks @NSS and @PeterW Out property is pretty secure. Unless one wants to swim from the towpath side of the canal to us, come by boat or drive over a canal bridge when there is only us and a farm which wouldn't go unnoticed (cameras from another property) the only alternative is to try and scale an old railway embankment and then the very steep drop to us full of bramble (definitely not for the faint hearted)! Just need to sort out cat5 cable so we can address the poor WiFi issues. I'll speak to the spark tomorrow.

Are these all wireless? Our WiFi is crap due to location even with boosters there was no signal at the other end of the bungalow and that was before we started building and making it bigger.