canalsiderenovation

We do seem to have adopted a cat from somewhere who we spotted with a mouse at the weekend. I guess I should be pleased it isn't a rat. Haven't had any in the traps for a few days. I perhaps need to change the peanut butter for chocolate muffins.

The last two don't match as such as one has a round head the other square. For our ensuite we have ordered this one https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mira-Showers-1-1874-005-Digital-Pressure/dp/B071NH4851/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=mira%2Bmode%2Bhigh%2Bpressure&qid=1597310243&quartzVehicle=25-376&replacementKeywords=mode%2Bhigh%2Bpressure&sr=8-3&th=1&psc=1 It's not like all our fittings will be the same make as the taps are a mix of Roper Rhodes and Hudson Reed.

I just realised I posted this in the wrong forum. Asking again. We are looking at two showers for our bungalow and I've ended up with three, I forgot I'd made an automatic eBay bid on one through the night. So, which do I keep and which one do I resell? All were between £140-£170 new/boxed off Facebook/eBay/Gumtree The first one is a Mira Agile ERD+ Dual Outlet https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B07RCY6CYG/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Second one Hansgrohe S240 Showerpipe https://www.amazon.co.uk/hansgrohe-Crometta-Showerpipe-27267000-Thermostat/dp/B01LLRHDPU Third one Hansgrohe E240 Showerpipe https://www.amazon.co.uk/hansgrohe-Crometta-Showerpipe-27271000-Thermostat/dp/B01MG2DESU One will be for a main bathroom and another for a guest/Airbnb ensuite. We will have an ASHP.

We are looking at two showers for our bungalow and I've ended up with three, I forgot I'd made an automatic eBay bid on one through the night. So, which do I keep and which one do I resell? All were between £140-£170 new/boxed off Facebook/eBay/Gumtree The first one is a Mira Agile ERD+ Dual Outlet https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B07RCY6CYG/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Second one Hansgrohe S240 Showerpipe https://www.amazon.co.uk/hansgrohe-Crometta-Showerpipe-27267000-Thermostat/dp/B01LLRHDPU Third one Hansgrohe E240 Showerpipe https://www.amazon.co.uk/hansgrohe-Crometta-Showerpipe-27271000-Thermostat/dp/B01MG2DESU One will be for a main bathroom and another for a guest/Airbnb ensuite. We will have an ASHP.

I wish this was a food related post! Nope, actually the less we can cook the better. The minute the gas goes in it turns from a 36 degree caravan to an actual steam room complete with scents of tea tree and lavender from what we have applied to our arms and legs from the critters are attacking us in here through open windows and vents. Meanwhile our dry storage in one of the outbuildings, formerly a shop the previous owner had selling canal associated tat has mice! Discovered when looking for some shorts as it's where we are storing some belongings, I'm now having a panic we have a family of furry friends living in our mattress and clothes. We have 4 traps down and so far have caught 6! Either the peanut butter is attracting them in or we have a huge family. The maize hasn't even been cut down yet so I'm predicting by time we get to emptying things out in Autumn they will likely have chewed through anything of any value! Bungalow wise, the historic evidence of birds, bees and wasps nesting in the old roof has been discovered which was completely knackered and the existing floors are being excavation ready for lots of lovely insulation. That's been a big job for the builders. The joining of the existing appearance of the two bungalows created a few discussions as we were just replacing the flat roof that joins them but not any more! Someone's had a bright idea and I can't pretend to understand what's happening but apparently it will look much better. As long as they stick to the budget they can do what they want - what they didn't mention was it's more steel/calcs which is extra cost but there may be savings elsewhere.

I just did that, good god how much?!?

Yes our previously painted doors went yellow. In 11 years in our last house we didn't damage any of our doors and those were cheap £25 B&Q doors and only had to get them painted as they went yellow. White veenered doors don't exist though ...

It's in progress you can follow my blog posts. On the existing we are having external wall insulation. I'll be posting as we progress.

Oooh I may have to treat myself, any recommendations?

I can't wait, it's going to be my favourite room and I do love to cook and bake too so doing it with a view is even better!

It does now! It's a bungalow so where we were intially going to go up all that space went out instead! That said the extension is mainly where there was a derelict single garage and wooden outbuildings so useless space really and very little impact on the garden/views. There is planning for our double garage close to our drive entrance but that will be a while into the future due to funds.

I have a JB Kind brochure here. Thanks for updating. I still can't find a flush white door. I've messaged @ultramods as they posted a similar question but not sure they are active on this forum.

Sorry it was @Roys oops. The issue I'm finding with Fibo is anything we like comes in 600mm wide so we will have to have joins in the panels on the 1200 and 1400 tray walls as they just don't do large panels so there is going to be some wastage and a lot of panels. I'm going to get some more samples from them

@ProDaveWe're these the PVC ones or ply ones? They seem to be cheaper than Fibo but we haven't yet found a colour of multipanel that we like. @Onoff I thought that too and we want to avoid joins. We have one tray 1200*800 surrounded by three walls so will need three large panels and two others 1400*800 with two walls so will need four panels I think so that's 7 panels in total ? I'm sure tiles woukd be cheaper. @Ferdinand interesting point. Some of the ones we have seen come in either tile format or not and given your issues it makes me more likely to go for those without and that come in large panels instead.

Agree, we didn't like any of the hollow pvc stuff and it's the ply type. We have three showers so it isn't going to be cheap and one of them fits into an alcove with three walls ? hoping though it will be far easier for cleaning though

Valid point...

It was @success1980 who had a thread that mentioned plain white finished doors and @PeterW mentioned XL joinery so I'll check them out. @success1980 did you get fixed up and what did you end up with?

Definitely not oak, it's got to be white and as flat as we can get and not needing painting/finishing. I just can't quite find what I'm looking for. I'm sure I saw the same question on here but I can't find the thread.

To be honest at the moment it's just finding something we both can agree on though I'm sure price will be a deciding factor too. We had some cheap ones (not flat though) previously £20 from B&Q and they were still fine 15 years later but it was painting them that did my head in - and the fact one door handle kept falling out as it was flimsy, though that may have been the quality of handle as oppose to the door.

It's for internal doors, sorry I should have made that clear. Unless you mean uPVC or composite inside???

We visited TG builders today and looked at quite a few showerwall alternative to tiles after having had quite a few samples from www.showerwall.co.uk We were quite taken with a few different designs from a manufacturer called Fibo. Has anyone heard of these? Opinions?

Surrounded by door brochures we have concluded we just want a flat if possible, white door. As SWMBO has a knack of picking THE most expensive handle/knob out of all the brochures we have I'm hoping we can save a bit of money by picking a fairly basic door. The issue is after gloss and satin white doors previously I'd rather not have something that requires regular painting, so does such a door exist? Any pointers?

So, progress has continued and after months of walking round looking at drawings I can actually see proper rooms which is all very exciting. My necessity of carrying lip gloss everywhere has been replaced with a tape measure which is now a handbag essential! I've become almost obsessive checking sizes of rooms, window openings and that potential bathroom purchases will fit. My tape measure had that much use it finally broke! One stand out moment was the steels for the 5.5 metre Internorm doors (modelled by the wife) and the corner window. This will be the kitchen dining room and look out up to the canal so will be one of my favourite places. The inside of the bungalow looks like a group of lads have had the worst house party ever and the chimney, naff red fireplace (see previous forum post), 70s bathroom and bedroom have all gone along with some of the windows, though neither of quite made it out of the house yet so it's just piles of rubble. In the absence of a chimney we have gained an impromptu skylight with view of the wasps nest. Internorm did their technical survey earlier this week and we just need to iron out the measurements of the 'triangle bits' above the huge sliders and hopefully will have our window order placed on Tuesday. The lead times mean potentially the windows will pretty much be the last things to go in which to be isn't a bad thing, less chance they will get damaged. Here is some pics. We are spending a rainy Saturday afternoon arguing about knobs.

Crikey, sounds a disaster! Ours is a 1970s weird bungalow which looks like two, separated by a flat roof (I suspect because when they got PP in the 70s permission for two bungalows it was turned down so they built one which looked like two and hoped to change it to two at some point but they never happened). The council wouldn't support a demolition so we had to work with what we had, the council kept saying 'in keeping with the surrounding area' but the reality is the two properties opposite us are very different and not 70s so we aren't in keeping with anything anyway so we will be a modern, rendered bungalow with a large proportion flat roof. We did initially get plans for an upstairs but ditched them due to a number of reasons.