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Good stuff, it’s easy stuff to work just paint on in thin coats and watch the edges for it gathering.

I think so, i’ll have a check when I’m back on site. It was recommended to be by the stairs chaps

Worktop-express.co.uk it’s an oak breakfast bar cut down 27mm * 960mm * 3000mm was about 240quid. (Muchly oversized incase the granite did not cut down well. Didn't look much until it got a couple of coats of satin Osmo oil. Needed no prep as was ready filled and sanded.

Needed something to give a focal point over the dining table. With limited budget as ever! Found a nine strand lamp in stollers reduced to a sensible price. Then added some kilner jam jars. Hopefully the ribbing and some squirrel cage bulbs will give a nice textured light around the white room.

Closer still, we have light in the light box and the breakfast bar is looking the part with a couple of coats of Osmo. Sink fitting proving challenging. None of my drill bits touch the granite. Good job we’ve got some offcuts to practice on with the new diamond core drills. I’m going to be really hacked off if this breaks the worktop!

Indeed. That’s why they wear skirts.

Considering two turbines. Each with built in dumpload and it’s own immersion. Brutal simplicity!

Our plan with this is to run a pair of different hydro feeds into two separate immersion’s. This means in summer we can just use the top immersion and only take the volume of a 4inch pipe. Then in the shoulder months and winter we’ll run in a second set up taking advantage of the much higher flow rates.

I think this might be the difference between renovation and new build. In our world we had an architect involved, but until we'd torn into the structure we didn't know what we didn't know. I suspect this then ramps up the SE involvement as the design is no longer in the full control of the architect - he has to respect the constraints of the current structure.

Hmm. I’d be hesitant. Our SE was local and made some very useful observations about the state and span of the roof trusses that needed work. I’d be doubtful that would have happened if they were fully offsite. Which ever way it needs to be someone you can trust and gets the vision. There were numerous ways to lay out the steels in our place and the architect had columns and downstands all over the place. The SE looked at it and commented that it didn’t fit the look he thought we were going for - with this in mind we then raised the floor in a couple of bedrooms. Doubt I would have got that in an email relatioship.

Its next years plans - TS with plenty of immersions going in. Thought it was worth a photo while its in spate today! Depending where we feed in, its something like 40-60ft of fall. - about the height of a 4 story mill in fact :-)

I think I have more. This used to stand in the back garden. That must have taken more than 250w to power - albeit they had the whole stream.

Seems to be wet up here, must be a KW or two in this little lot!

Pretty certain glass wool burns, my guys were going to encase the twin wall in mesh in the loft to stop anything rest against it.

We found massive variance in the SE cost. Quotes from £1250inc vat to £3400 ex vat. For the same job of work, used some guys in barrow at about 1400 or so, bit slow at times but they managed to engineer out all the columns and downstands. As ever it’s about picking someone you can work with, almost as much as the architect. Certaibly for us the SE did the job of making the vision build able and resolving bijou design bits.

Think ive used them in the past without issue.

I bought a shower tray from them that turned out to be utter shite. Other than that I have no other experiences. The T&C’s were neatly written to say that anything fitted could not be warranteed. So we have a uphill shower tray for the garden shower now.

Certainly can, we worked extensively with our SE to remove columns and downstands the architect had added.

This is spot on, we loved the open plan style of our previous townhouse but needed the retreat of the snug. We have the same in the new place (albeit on a more useable scale) with 3/4 living zones connected together and then another upstairs lounge.

It's an interesting argument. The double height space is about 3m * 6m so not far off the size of a small terraced house.. but it does eliminate all the corridors and in the old floor plan there was at least 30m of corridor on the two floors. Overall I think, and think is only as far as we have got to so far is it's a better use of space. Undoubtedly we could have got in a couple more bedrooms but to our minds we wanted an open 4 bed house as opposed to a cellular 6 bed house.

Indeed. In fact we only have two doors that lead to other doors. The workshop thru the utility and the ensuite thru the guest bedroom. We had a I think 14 internal doors before we started and we now have something like 8.

Interesting post. We've practically eliminated all corridors from our rebuild and created an atrium that everything revolves around. The thinking is that this double height space connects everything together a bit like a negative space oak tree up the centre of the house. The idea being that we can be in house doing our things and connected without being on top of each other.

Is that the one that's a robot with a built in pencil sharpener?

We used a local joiner, not much more than stairbox and a lot more control. Circa 9k or so. But it does have two winders and something like 16 newal posts and 20odd metres of 10mm glass. The advantage is in talking it through with the guys making it in the space to get it bob on.

This has two coats of Osmo oil satin (and a light coat of dust) i like it, no idea how well it will last