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So, purely based on color and price I picked two roof tiles that seemed suitable - Forticrete Minislate and - Marley Edgemere Now we have them both in hand, I have a few questions: - The forticrete ones have a noticeable curve to them, Marley is flat. Any pro/con to this? - Forticrete ones are about 33% smaller overall (and while cheaper per tile, pricier per sqm). Are there any benefits or downsides to having more tiles? Easier to replace, but takes 33% longer per roof? - Forticretes are also that 33% thinner, both tiles were surprisingly fragile, on the thin bits (the interlocking mechanism) could be damaged super easy. In a battle of wills between this tile and a normal drinking glass I would seriously not know who to bet on. I imagine forticrete is even weaker than Marley overall when dealing with .. uh.. meteors? OK hail? Or weight? (snow)? - Is this something to care about? Basically, I *suppose* there's no huge difference in either choice but any thoughts?

Coming back to this, so as a reminder, wall buildup: <internal> skim 5mm sandcement plaster 15mm medium block 100mm EPS blown beads (with stainless steel wall ties perhaps) 200mm medium block 100mm sand cement render 15mm <outside> My quesion: Would one put e.g. K-rend on top of the sandcement? From the k-rend site I should *replace* the sandcement with k-rend..

Yep that's roughly our plan. You have a LOT of storage there though, we were thinking of going a lot more spartan. Per person 2 pairs of current shoes, 1 coat and a few 'grab n go' things (umbrella, hat, gloves, hand sanitizer) and that's it?

Yeah it's tough to get anywhere, weird. It's interesting how you tend to live 'around' the various features a hous (& its appliances) have. Fully agree a zip tap does lots of chilledness etc, but in my current fridge I just grab a glass (stack of glasses right next to frige).. pop some ice, add some water, done in less than 10 seconds total. Instead, opening the fridge, grabbing some scoop of ice, scoop it in, then add the water. That's surely a whole 20 seconds!... sooo yeah maybe I'm over optimising but it's really a nice thing to have ice+chilled right next to each other.

Ah this seems to make sense. Don't... all ground floor block walls go down to the foundations? Do you have any drawings so I can understand what you mean? Oh, partially loadbearing, partially noise reasons. Home Cinema. I don't think they're supposed to slide all the way into the cavity wall indeed, but I'll make sure. What should be used to seal it up? Spittle mixed with wood shavings?

There's somewhat larger context which is that we want a small wardrobe near the entrance, for shoes and coats. Currently our design is this: If the toilet wall could have a pull-out seat, shoe storage and a few coathooks then we don't need the large piece of dressing area furniture on the left

Yes, I'm 6'4 - wife is tall too (but not Dutch tall ) So you'd indeed go for a 1000-deep island.. interesting. Possibly worth doing.

Yes, given our ceiling height is 2m70 we do have *some* room to play with. Indeed the WC ceiling would be low.. Anyway I'm not yet seriously debating it - I found it a somewhat intruiging thought but it feels too over-engineered for a small gain

A toilet door swinging out into the hallway isn't always ideal. How about this: I suspect it's not ideal for wheelchair users, but you can put drawers under the toilet for shoes! It's great!

There's a few other things that I'm missing: Specifications for wall ties seem incorrect for low energy building No thermal breaks on kitchen frame steel structure Anything else that we should consider adding?

Wow indeed we are pretty similar there. The reason we moved the oven towards the corner was because it tightens the work triangle and if it's open, you don't have to walk around it with difficulty. Why did you choose the right section?

This is a provisional design, but are there any cold bridges in here? I understand there might be, but I can't see where.. anyone a bit of a passiv designer?

This one looks pretty 'built in' even if it is freestanding. I wonder if the doors will actually open. That's the crucial challenge I think, doors that 'try' to expand beyond their footprint while you open. My samsung needs about an inch beyond their width when closed. Ah - it's this one: https://mahajanelectronics.com/products/siemens-iq700-built-in-freezer-212-5-x-60-3-cm-fi24dp32 - Rs. 489,000 in gbp is about 4700gbp

Ha, I have the same, crushed ice is basically just angry non-crushed ice. It basically manages to crack the cubes somewhat but they are usually mostly intact. Weird. But yes, grabbing a glass, and having 0C water 10 secs later is awesome. @dan f - nice find.. except.. https://www.perfecthomeimports.com/product/gaggenau-rf463304/ - this is the first one that mentions price.. only 11,000 EUR. ?

The crucial feature of the american ones is that you can get ice without opening the fridge, rummaging around in the ice bin etc.

fwiw here's part ins piration - the heights of the cupboards, worktop, wall units etc are all exactly the same as my design. Including the top of the units are indeed at 2m70 which is what we have too.

I forgot your status, any chance you can send me some plans/photos/renders of what your situation looks like? and.. ha.. what would you do differently in retrospect?

Far from it, over here the kitchen place we went to yesterday advised 900-1000 'to meet wheelchair reqs'. Maybe the scottish are provisioning 1400 to meet 'be able to turn around while carrying bagpipes' regs? Well, since we were there in that kitchen shop they had both 900, 1000 and 1100 gaps .. 1000 felt fine, 1100 perhaps even slightly inefficient. A quick render - note that the dimensions are somewhat hard to fathom, since the ceiling height is 2m70 (window ends at 1500, top of the 'backsplash style cupboards is 2300) and the worktop heights are 1000

So we really love our american fridge-freezer with an ice and chilled water dispenser.. But we also love built-in things for that smooth look. Anyone aware of a built-in freezer with external ice maker? Miele *used to* make a freezer (and you could match a fridge, as shown below) - the Mastercool F1472vi FWIW, an internal icemaker where you'd have to open the freezer, probably open some drawer is nowhere near as good a solution, but perhaps a stand-alone icemaker could work, but feels somewhat redundant since it'd effectively be a tiny secondary freezer? Or?

Dear reader, take a quick look at this kitchen map. The 3 highlighted numbers. Should I; 1/ Leave as-is. A generous walkway behind the island 2/ Make walkway 1000, make island 100 deeper 3/ Make walkway 1000, make walkway between the service shaft and island 1052? (and.. why?)

Plus it's harder to spot if you soiled yourself (vertigo and all)

Thing is when I look closer at this design it looks like it's frameless glass on the outside (towards the abyss) so I think it wouldn't fly with my wife, even if it's absolutely safe on paper. Indeed a proper balustrade, perhaps independently supported - posts at the corners - might be ideal Ha, it's taken me pretty long hasn't it. Maybe I should update my status for the forum Fun fact, right now I'm slightly considering actually selling the old house+plot since literally for the first time during the entire 5 years I've looked for a purchasable house that meets most of our needs there is one that has a dramatically different set of features yet the 'principles' are good. Might post separately just to regale you all with my tribulations But in short, detail design is 99% done, so tendering should start in 1-2 weeks. Assuming 4 weeks tendering, 4 weeks mobilization, something like mid to late november seems about right.

Fair point, thanks. I guess in Amsterdam, many houses had hoists in particular because the stairs were pretty tiny/cramped.

Do you perhaps have a picture of something (like) what you're describing?

One suggestion I've heard is to make the 1st floor 'circle' tighter. Currently the stairs and walkways are exactly same size straight above each other. Would moving the lower floor say 500mm inward on every side be helpful? I'm not sure if you could even see the "500mm ledge" one floor down while 'staring into the abyss' let alone if it would even help with a sense of safety?