Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

GDB2222

Thanks PN. I think that the John Lewis ones should be okay, and they are quite close by. I want to pop in to see what they have to say about mattress toppers vs new mattresses, anyway.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

Surely, the quality of mattress toppers must vary?

I don't know where to buy extra deep super king-size sheets from -must be fitted please.

I wouldn't automatically assume that because it comes from Ebay it must be inferior.

We bought a topper from Ebay that was far superior that a RL shop purchase.

vivatifosi

Neat find Pastures. In a couple of years I would like to put a sleepout on my house. Given that most British houses have conservatories rather than sleepouts - which are an antipodean concept - I expect some scratching of heads in the planning office, but a sleepout is definitely what I want. That may be helpful. What I want is a room with the front capable of being more or less entirely open (though there may structurally need to be a column in there) with a proper roof and a wall of glazed doors that can be pulled back and inside that a wall of flyscreen doors so that you can sleep on the patio without creepy crawlies getting in. Its very much like the house I grew up in as a kid and I've wanted one ever since (along with the swimming pool, but that's not entirely a great idea given my garden's only 50 ft long). It may be better termed as something like an orangerie, but I still want a sleepout!

Incidentally, I've been teaching my Mum how to use a computer. She grasps the concepts but not really the terms. Instead of deleting a file, she wants to obliterate it.

michaels

Obliterating is much safer

So is it glass roofed like a conservatory or is it just open on one wall? Our new back room will have a 4m folding door that will be most of the back wall (need to leave a bit at each edge for structural reasons). No plans for insect doors though but maybe that would be useful.

vivatifosi wrote: »

Neat find Pastures. In a couple of years I would like to put a sleepout on my house. Given that most British houses have conservatories rather than sleepouts - which are an antipodean concept - I expect some scratching of heads in the planning office, but a sleepout is definitely what I want. That may be helpful. What I want is a room with the front capable of being more or less entirely open (though there may structurally need to be a column in there) with a proper roof and a wall of glazed doors that can be pulled back and inside that a wall of flyscreen doors so that you can sleep on the patio without creepy crawlies getting in. Its very much like the house I grew up in as a kid and I've wanted one ever since (along with the swimming pool, but that's not entirely a great idea given my garden's only 50 ft long). It may be better termed as something like an orangerie, but I still want a sleepout!

Incidentally, I've been teaching my Mum how to use a computer. She grasps the concepts but not really the terms. Instead of deleting a file, she wants to obliterate it.

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

Obliterating is much safer

So is it glass roofed like a conservatory or is it just open on one wall? Our new back room will have a 4m folding door that will be most of the back wall (need to leave a bit at each edge for structural reasons). No plans for insect doors though but maybe that would be useful.

Nope, proper roof (in Australia it would be a tin roof, but I'll stick to tiles here or my neighbours will be apoplectic), just opens fully along one side. Kind of an al fresco space, but with the British weather in mind - if its rainy we can still sit out, if its uncomfortably hot we can sleep out. Plan is for a room of about 12ft wide to front opening and about 8-9 ft deep. Don't want it too much deeper or it will make the actual lounge (which thankfully is dual aspect) too gloomy as the large windows are to rear.

Incidentally the fly screens have two purposes. First, you can keep out the bugs, even with lights on. Second, you can still secure the space and go to sleep but have a lovely breeze come through.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Neat find Pastures. In a couple of years I would like to put a sleepout on my house. Given that most British houses have conservatories rather than sleepouts - which are an antipodean concept - I expect some scratching of heads in the planning office, but a sleepout is definitely what I want. That may be helpful. What I want is a room with the front capable of being more or less entirely open (though there may structurally need to be a column in there) with a proper roof and a wall of glazed doors that can be pulled back and inside that a wall of flyscreen doors so that you can sleep on the patio without creepy crawlies getting in. Its very much like the house I grew up in as a kid and I've wanted one ever since (along with the swimming pool, but that's not entirely a great idea given my garden's only 50 ft long). It may be better termed as something like an orangerie, but I still want a sleepout!

Incidentally, I've been teaching my Mum how to use a computer. She grasps the concepts but not really the terms. Instead of deleting a file, she wants to obliterate it.

There was a house in my county with a sleepout, owned by some local MP... I don't know what happened to that... anyway, the sleepout name they used began with a Z, 4-5 letters, new word to me so it escapes me at the moment. I'll google and see if I can find it.

I was more concerned about feral youths with cans of Stella, or burglars, finding it/me

I think the concept he was following was some Arab thing maybe.

PasturesNew

Got it. A Zula "Arabic style outdoor space. Paved floor, 3 walls, ² windows and roof. ² of the walls are made with brick built pillars at the corners, in filled with sections clay pipe. ² double sockets. Paint mural on the front"

Interestingly, or not, when I first saw it, it ws on at £200k, it sold at £165k.

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

Nope, proper roof (in Australia it would be a tin roof, but I'll stick to tiles here or my neighbours will be apoplectic), just opens fully along one side. Kind of an al fresco space, but with the British weather in mind - if its rainy we can still sit out, if its uncomfortably hot we can sleep out. Plan is for a room of about 12ft wide to front opening and about 8-9 ft deep. Don't want it too much deeper or it will make the actual lounge (which thankfully is dual aspect) too gloomy as the large windows are to rear.

Incidentally the fly screens have two purposes. First, you can keep out the bugs, even with lights on. Second, you can still secure the space and go to sleep but have a lovely breeze come through.

Fly screens are possibly the most civilised thing about Australian living.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Got it. A Zula "Arabic style outdoor space. Paved floor, 3 walls, ² windows and roof. ² of the walls are made with brick built pillars at the corners, in filled with sections clay pipe. ² double sockets. Paint mural on the front"

Interestingly, or not, when I first saw it, it ws on at £200k, it sold at £165k.

Interesting house. I hope not to do my sleepout up in the bedouin fashion like that though Pastures. If Gaddafi is still on the loose I may get my back garden bombed with them thinking he's in hiding there. He did say they'll never find him, what less obvious place to hide than Hertfordshire:D

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

Fly screens are possibly the most civilised thing about Australian living.

I can't believe that they are not more commonplace here. We may not get the same array of creepy crawlies - thank goodness - but even things like midges in May and daddy longlegs later in the year get annoying. I can't think of a single house that any of my Aussie family has that don't have them. I can't think of a single house that any of my Pom family does.