Big Jimbo

Raised dishwashers are a great idea. A standard integrated dishwasher will not go in a standard off the shelf tower unit, because the internal width of the unit will be 564mm if the cabinet is made from 18mm material, and the integrated dishwasher will be about 590mm wide. You are right, what you need is a short unit for the bottom, (deep drawer, or cupboard, and some matching panels, that you can use either side of that unit. That will then give you the width you need for your dishwasher, and the integtrated door will work.

Hi On Off, I can't help much with words of wisdom, but having to climb the soil pipe wont help. I expect that you are getting water sitting at the pan connector and just not getting away. Empty the pan, raise the toilet on a bit of ply perhaps. Or a crap load of silicon, put on in Two coats, and dont use it for a couple of days.

That looks great, but what a pain in the butt to have had to do them.

Councils don't like you reversing out onto a road, but it sounds like you have that sorted.

Your screw piles will be deeper than his footings, old or new, so you will need a pwa.

I didn't bother to watch. Used to like property ladder years ago, but her big old mansion doing up was so dull. I have no doubt, this will be the same. I'm surprised that they give her anything on the telly now. She just feels so out of date.

I've got three phase. Only One is connected to the meter. The other Two are just terminated in the box.

£200 quid. it's a no brainer.

Nice, parquet flooring, and purple.Going to look stunning.

I always do metal capping, as i dont see the point in the shite plastic stuff. I can see the grey mains. What are the others ?

Look, who cares about you chimney. What i want to know is which one of the purple colours are you going with. I love a bit of purple. P.s.good luck with the chimney

The mains wire dont look like it is 50mm deep from the surface. So as a minimum it will need a capping over it.

My omputer will not let me open your drawings. It's prob me as i am rubbish with tecno stuff. If you are c utting either steels, or timbers into the party wall then yes you will need a PWA. My dads house was higher than his neighbours, when the neighbours cut into the party wall for the steels, they came through into his bathroom, and back bedroom. Oh, have we laughed. (Not). The neighbours didn't chuckle either when i gave them the bill for fixing it.

Sorry, can't help fella. It is such a hard thing to do, matching existing old tiles. I've got a friend who has run a huge tile place for over 30 years, and he says it is all but impossible to match old tiles. So many producers. Good luck.

Inside measurements are used to determine size. Not external ones.

Try and get sombody at the council on your side, with a nice friendly chat, and get them to search the old council records in the building control dept. Good luck.

Welcome. Nice that you will have your family living with you. Goog luck

Good luck On Off. You are certainly getting a lot of crud out, which can only improve things. Fingers crossed for a toastie warm gaff later tonight.

Sounds great, but we need some pics please.

I did One in a clients f-off masssive house. It was in a bookcase, and led into a panic room with comms etc. That was about 20 years ago, and was proper Scooby Do. The best secret escape i ever saw was a pair of robe doors from a clients bedroom, into a secret staircase, that went down to behind the panelled walls in the entrance hall.

Don't know about bespoke and cheap. I used to charge £1300 a metre , and packed up 3 years ago. Internal doors on sliders would be a good bet for reasonable cost.

Looking great, Zoot the Hoot. What you need now is another 10 or 15 0f those to do now, and you would get super quick.

Zoot the hoot. My apols fella, but this is better than taskmaster.

Patrick. I have done loads of Firestone rubber roofs. Some have been simple, and some have been complicated with multiple roof lights etc. If yours is as you discribe, then i would class it as an easy roof. The only thing i would say is that because of the time of year, you will have to use the contact type adhesive, rather than the water based adhesive. You can't use the water based adhesive if there is any chance of frost. The water based adhesive is great, because as you lay, if you get a ripple, you can pull it back and sort it out. With the Contact type adhesive, you only get One chance to lay, It sticks, and ain't coming back up...... You would have to use the contact on the vertical surfaces anyway, but it does make it much harder to do. Your rubber roof would also need to be taken up and over the top of you parapet wall, so your top trim would lap down over it. How is your roof being vented ? If your cladding is vertical, it would need another batten (Counter) in order to provide ventilation. 12mm Osb on your roof is to light for your roof top layer. Looking at your drawing, i don't see your ventilation, or construction working. Can you do a warm roof ?

Same as granite transformations. Never used them, but i would'nt. They do scratch, and the front edge is easy to chip. On dark colours you can see the join within the front bevel. They are only marginally cheaper than the proper stuff, and i'm not a huge fan of that either. Shop around and i bet you will get proper granite for a similar price.