Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

misskool

we have a viessmann who is the cheaper cousin of the vaillant. Get them from registered installers and it's something like a 5 year warranty. Ours had a fault last year and was fixed in 2 days.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

told you I was tired.

2 kitchens would be ideal for me though, one for outside (garden) bits with mahoosive freezer and then another small prep one. Sadly, in real life I have a kitchen that is 3m x4m with 2 doorway openings so it's minute

Hardly minute. The one here is 6'x7'. When you enter, there's a short top/base unit on the left and right ahead is the door to outside, so if you're doing anything at all, anybody coming through the kitchen (it's the way in from the back garden) will have to keep coming past you. And if you're there - and doing stuff at the sink - and checking on things in saucepans, then back to the kitchen top, you're going round and round in a circle round that space (triangle), yet the main thoroughfare's right through the middle... it's a tiny kitchen and completely hopeless.

PasturesNew

I'd see if there were any part that could be self-contained, for optional B&B potential, guests staying over, holiday let income (occasional) or renting out to waifs and strays. It's a big house and you'll end up with bits you never go to except to check they're still there every month or so. Maybe somebody on the Internet could be job hunting and could stay for 1-2 months to check out local jobs, or something :P

It's just handy if you can design something that has the potential, with one door locked, to become separate/self-contained/private.... or just 'forgotten' when not in use. It'd be annoying if you had such 'dead space' slap bang in the middle and felt you had to keep walking round it.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Hardly minute. The one here is 6'x7'. When you enter, there's a short top/base unit on the left and right ahead is the door to outside, so if you're doing anything at all, anybody coming through the kitchen (it's the way in from the back garden) will have to keep coming past you. And if you're there - and doing stuff at the sink - and checking on things in saucepans, then back to the kitchen top, you're going round and round in a circle round that space (triangle), yet the main thoroughfare's right through the middle... it's a tiny kitchen and completely hopeless.

I think the thing with kitchens is that they need to be well laid out. Mine isn't big - it's about 8x8 but its really well designed so has everything I need. If it had two doors or was a different layout it would be horrible. I know people with much bigger kitchens (my parents for example) but because of their layout they're difficult to negotiate.

michaels

I'll post my plans on here a bit later - nothing as grand as everyone else though - the kitchen was only 11 by 6 before we knocked it through to the dining room.

misskool

PasturesNew wrote: »

Hardly minute. The one here is 6'x7'. When you enter, there's a short top/base unit on the left and right ahead is the door to outside, so if you're doing anything at all, anybody coming through the kitchen (it's the way in from the back garden) will have to keep coming past you. And if you're there - and doing stuff at the sink - and checking on things in saucepans, then back to the kitchen top, you're going round and round in a circle round that space (triangle), yet the main thoroughfare's right through the middle... it's a tiny kitchen and completely hopeless.

Oops, I just OH what I thought it was and apparently, it's 3m x 2.5m
:rotfl: :rotfl:

spatial awareness = FAIL

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

I'll post my plans on here a bit later - nothing as grand as everyone else though - the kitchen was only 11 by 6 before we knocked it through to the dining room.

I bet yours are perfect. Its really interesting that everything you said has been raised by our arhchitect at some point. I think you must really have a great eye for this.

Ours is big..''grand''...for the future, but its a reeeght dump now!:D

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

I quite like mirror doors. men usually find a use for them. If you are artisitic, I am not, you could get paint and pain choisery type birds and twigs over them.

We have a dark red shagpile in bedroom too ATM. My guess is your artex is better than our ceiling.

I don't mind mirror doors per se (unless they are that not quite a mirror bronzy colour), I just don't like the big crack. It's not a paint overable crack either unfortunately as its made the mirror on two different levels.

Heaven knows what your ceiling is like lir if it's worse than mine. Have you got a hole in it or a leak or something, or polystyrene ceiling tiles? I can't think of many things that are uglier than mine atm.

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

I bet yours are perfect. Its really interesting that everything you said has been raised by our arhchitect at some point. I think you must really have a great eye for this.

Ours is big..''grand''...for the future, but its a reeeght dump now!:D

we aren't going to be "grand" but ours is still a dump

LydiaJ

vivatifosi wrote: »

I called and he said he likes Worcester Bosch, but they are expensive.

misskool wrote: »

we have a viessmann who is the cheaper cousin of the vaillant. Get them from registered installers and it's something like a 5 year warranty. Ours had a fault last year and was fixed in 2 days.

Thanks. I'll remember those. Do you have condensing or non-condensing? Combi or hot water tank, or the thing that michaels has just been recommending?