canalsiderenovation

Haha yes ? it's a lovely canal - I'm bias though. We are in Shropshire close to Whitchurch and the staircase locks which anyone who has travelled on the Llangollen, especially in a boat will no doubt have memories of, they seem to cause chaos for a lot of tourists. Hopefully when the house is finished and funds allow we will get a narrowboat at some point, when we bought it the house didn't have mooring we applied and got it granted so that's definitely a future plan....

It's not a lake it's the Llangollen canal and it runs adjacent to our property and we have over 90 metres of canal frontage, the towpath being the other side. We have 5.5 metre sliders planed from our large kitchen diner with views of the canal and will have some seating area there. We are lucky in that we have the views not only in the living room but pretty much every window of the house so it's not like we are limited with the view only being from our living room and I'm all honestly I think we will spend much more time in the kitchen/dining area as it will have a bit of room for a small sofa too so will be more of a social space. I can only see the living room being used in winter when we want to snuggle in front of the log burner! Here's a better pic from earlier on in the build and looking towards those large sliders we have planned. On reflection I don't think it matters making the living room window a bit higher to keep it in line with the kitchen.

Internorm came today for a technical survey and we can't seem to agree on something (though unusually I don't have an opinion on this I just want to get the things ordered)! It concerns these two windows - the extension isn't up yet so added on to the left window is the kitchen extension. Looking at the bungalow the window on the left will form part of the kitchen and will have our kitchen sink/worktop so the bottom will be raised (I'm not on site at the moment but you're talking 10-15cm) to account for the base units/worktop. This is not an opening window, nor split rather just one pane measuring 1800mm *1050. To the right of this is the living room window this is a separate living room and not accessible from the kitchen/dining (plan attached) nor is it our only window in the living room (the other one is round the corner as you look at the bungalow on the righ. to raise the same as the kitchen one (10-15cm). The size of this 2400*1050 single pane and also fixed. Apparently having a higher than normal window in this room is not normal, though I can't see an issue with it though one of us described it as a letterbox! Is raising the height really that much of an issue. Frankly I don't care..... The other lounge window is 1490*1050 too but there are no other windows on this wall (see other pic - the window will be slightly smaller than the one in now). Plan attached for info.

Well I'm not a real man or any man like @Onoff and there is no man here aside from the builder(s). I'm a real woman, as is my other half but neither or us feel confident with this! I may be up to tackling some of the later stuff but not this! It's either making a fake wall and then a walk in like my initial sketch or something like @Nickfromwales suggested but we need to look into costs as that Lego type stuff seems expensive compared to a walk in tray and screen. First things first need to speak to builder to clarify how the shower is connected to the waste. Thanks everyone for your help.

So square it off and then something like this? https://victoriaplum.com/browse/quadrant-shower-enclosures?csi=PFH98PRP&ds_kid=92700055266126519&gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrOTyveTH6gIVuIBQBh3xFwbBEAQYAiABEgIQe_D_BwE

The other option seems to be as per my drawing and have a walk in shower and tray. Newspaper is based on tray of 1400*800. We could then have the entrance door opening the other side but don't think this is necessarily needed. From squaring it off to the entrance door wall the measurement of the wall is 2.9 metres.

It's for a second ensuite for the parents/Airbnb (we have our own) so I don't really want to start moving walls etc so armed with some newspaper I've been playing around with the layout. Option one @Bored Shopper your suggestion. This is based on 800*800 tray. Bit worried about the door on a tray and cleaning access. Not sure.

It's for a second ensuite for the parents/Airbnb (we have our own) so I don't really want to start moving walls etc so am off to the house shortly, armed with some newspaper for template shower trays to see what I can come up with.

Its been built already, we have foundations and part built walls ? I'm stupid, the angle never really occured to me before looking from the plans.....

Oh I never thought of that - in shower storage recesses..... Excuse the crude drawing but would something like this work? Kind of a walk in one if the corner was squared off. I imagine it would need to be 700-800 so would lose a bit of the space. May have to change the entrance door opening side.

Hmmm I don't really want the shower close to the window and it could end up blocking it. I guess the corner could be squared off and then a D or U shaped shower.

This is what is on the plans and we have the foundations/walls. It's the only real logical place but don't really want tiles but the tray shape on the plans doesn't exist! Hopefully @Nickfromwales will be along too with some advice.

In our second ensuite we have quite a small space and are trying to find a suitable shower tray/cubicle we could make work in tn space. The first pic shows the angle we have (see bent piece of metal) against a 90 degree wall and the second pic is the a metal against the esuite wall.

So we spent yesterday bathroom shopping with no success. The tray has to be 1200mm so my idea of something like this in the pic below is out. I definitely don't want a sliding door and I'd rather not an opening door that is connected to another piece of glass. Something like this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271562712891 on a 1200mm tray. I'm sure I saw a post from @ProDave on similar topic.

It was my wife's, not exactly sure what she was pointing at!

Things seem to be happening very quickly and progress has gone really well. The block and beam of the huge extension is coming together now and the focus has been outside, although with the occasional downpour the inside is now half empty with our 1970s bathroom suite finally gone. In the interim I've sold everything inside, the kitchen, boiler, naff internal doors and even the crappy floor tiles we took off. All copper and rads ready for my dad to weigh in. Have now run out of stuff to sell! Here are a couple of pics from this week. The final pic, the bank you can see and the path runs 90 metres from the entrance to the end of our garden from one old railway bridge to the other old railway bridge the other end which is over the canal. The railway at the top of the embankment is no more. It was the line that ran from Whitchurch to Chester and we can clamber up to the top of the embankment which is now an overgrown mess of bramble and ivy, no track any longer. We cleared some of the ivy and when we were clearing the garden of shrubs, bulbs and plants that we knew would get disturbed I literally moved every one by hand and planted it on the bank and we have been lucky that the majority of the plants have taken and had daffs, bluebells and lots of other things flower so it looks quite nice, even the foxgloves that seem to have gone crazy. We do need to sort out some sort of wall or something to replace the rockery' bit which was already there. I dread to think of the cost for such a long length. It's not as high in some places and levels off.

This is the space it needs to fit you can see the new footings (ignore the existing door it will be bricked up and pillar)....

Crikey that's a lot of window cleaning!

There was less than £6k price difference for us and that included full fitting with Internorm (for their aluclad UPVC Studio product). As much as I want to save money it felt like the products were significantly better for the price difference.

Strange I got different information. I've decided on Internorm now instead.

Thank you, I'll check that out.

@Ferdinand No the cloaks. I'm not happy with the ensuite shower positioning for the reasons you mention and need to sort that, especially as we have our freestanding bath already purchased! The bath/shower location in the ensuite needs tweaking. We initially weren't having a shower in there but we both realised we needed one for washing hair after a soak in the bath.... Long story.... It could even be a corner one and not that big either. Need to speak to the builder about that. Ps love your bathroom and video. Panels direct onto blockwork? Any suggestions @PeterW

Oooh thanks. Builder said 1200mm would be better but I'm pushing for a 1300mm tray. 100mm makes a big difference ? The issue will be what we have on the walls and thickness. If we went for that one we would only have 20mm spare....

Looking at the gap the walk in shower was meant to go tonight and it is smaller than what I thought, I mean it is as it was on the plans but seeing it seems far smaller and I'm now wondering what is best. It's 1320mm and ideally we just want a walk in one with no sliding or pivot door just a glass and a slim tray which needs to fit in between the walls on the Cloaks on the plan. I'm guessing it would be better to have a 1200 size tray to allow for tiles/wall covering and 1300 tray sizes don't seem common. Every walk in shower I've seen this size isn't between two walls. Is it viable to have a walk in shower fitting in this size or is the gap to walk in going to be too small?

Hope so! At least if it's wet the builder can tackle the inside....