Home DIY

Stumbled across the rest of this on zoopla earlier. It's very nice. GLWS.

I have but I didn't do it myself. Had someone renovate them and they made them much better partly through leveling them and a tighter fit in the frame and partly through adding brush pile strips.

Didn't know that, thought they were only needed on ali or metal doors.

Looks like I don't have any particularly good pictures, I can probably get one at the weekend if you like. There's a chair in there rather than a girlfriend now. It's a nice spot to sit (my flat's on a bit of a slope so the view through the window is fairly unimpeded) but the headroom is only 5'4".

It's not the best use of space but I think it looks far better and makes the room feel bigger compared to those where it is closed off for storage.

(It isn't much higher at the front than the back, that's just the perspective on the picture. It's probably a couple of inches difference.)

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Cheers. It's been a bit slow but things are starting to pick up now. Not entirely sure whether we'll be staying on the ladder or moving the other side of the road to the Gardens or Langham or Carlingford or similar. There's a pretty hefty price difference between them.

I reckon that's fine, it's the door opening straight into the kitchen that puts me off.

I put a 1,000x900 tray into my ensuite, I think I'll struggle going back to something smaller.

We have sash windows in the bedroom that are single glazed and were draughty.

I got fed up with them and bought some of the insulation foam tape for £3 thinking it can't make it any worse, and it made a massive difference. There were some pretty big gaps before so it was an easy win, but for a cheap and easy solution the difference was enormous.

In warmer places I suppose, but when it drops to -40º you want all the potential thermal bridges eliminated.

This a really strange feature to have, but it's cool. What's it like from the outside?

It's pretty common in the conversions near me. It's in the bit above the bay windows.

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Please say the roof folds outward like flower petals to reveal your doomsday machine.

Wait, 35k for two doors? What...

@dt I was thinking the same - @Cornish_Bike what size doors are we talking. I'm due to get an extension done in the next few months and have not budgeted that kind of dorrah for doors...

Yeah. I'm not gonna be able to budget anything near that. The entire project needs to come in at under 40. Will probably just get something like one of these.

https://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Burman-Slimline-Grey-French-Door---1190mm/p/213440
https://www.wickes.co.uk/Jci-Aluminium-French-Door-Grey-Outwards-Opening/p/9000190445

I have the added issue of needing my doors a slightly reduced height as my extension has a sloping roof so I have lintel height restrictions, plus its a listed building so can't make any changes to the roof. I'd expect to pay a little more for this but not ££,£££'s

For some reason the electrician feels we must do something about the way our meter is attached. Idk, looks legit to me.

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Bifolding doors aren't even much more than that.

We're doing an extension soon, going to need 3 metres of windows/doors. Certainly not budgeting £9k and upwards for that 🤣

Er has it been like that since the meters were installed?

Think you need to speak to power network people.

Are those prices fitted?

My question exactly. But no one can answer, we've only had the house for ten months. I've got the network company involved and an electrician who'll coordinate his stuff with them.

There’s a number of people offering custom made jobbies on eBay and gumtree. Might be worth seeing what the reviews of those are like

It is the people that own the meter/cables. As you don't.

Different rules in different countries I suppose, I'm responsible for the bits the meter attaches to apparently.

Made a gate today, as my old one rotted through and is an awkward size.

Used treated t&g for the panels, and ~3/4" x 4" treated for the ledges & braces, all fixed with 30mm wood screws.

I'll trim the sides after I've offered it up.

Once I managed to get my miter saw square, and when I realised that it needed to be made vertical too, it was all fairly easy.

For the angles on the bracing, I sneaked up on the lines with small cuts, as experience shows that my measuring of angles is crap.

I'll trim the sides after I've offered it up.

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Want to do ours?

Presume the treatment is solid throughout and you don't need to dip the sawn edges? Particularly the bottom if cut?