Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

chewmylegoff

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Here is the type of high-gloss kitchen that I don't like:

You'll like my kitchen then...

Doozergirl

The dog's just trodden spilt diesel from the drive all over my expensive white duvet cover We had to have him washed yesterday, the only sanctuary in this house is our bedroom and now it stinks of diesel and the sheets are ruined. And the dog is dirty again.

It's pretty cold as the boiler is old and we are wary of using it. There's no carpet either so doglet seeks warmth on/in our beds but he's full of dirt from the house. We have to shut DDs door at the moment because he will get into her bed and steal her duvet when she's asleep. On Sunday he took it out to the hallway with him.

It was an adventure for a week. Now it's more of a nightmare. At least the washing machine works (off she goes with the bed linen).

Davesnave

GDB2222 wrote: »

I'm old enough to remember my parents replacing our old butler's sink with a beautiful stainless steel one.

Best thing to do imo. I'm going back to stainless steel here, but good quality, not the cheap tat you see in the DIY sheds.

Same with baths. We loved our German Bette steel bath at t'other place. I went right off plastic ones after DW stoo a chair in one to clean the window....and went right through. Physics isn't one of her strengths. :rotfl:

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Best thing to do imo. I'm going back to stainless steel here, but good quality, not the cheap tat you see in the DIY sheds.

Same with baths. We loved our German Bette steel bath at t'other place. I went right off plastic ones after DW stoo a chair in one to clean the window....and went right through. Physics isn't one of her strengths. :rotfl:

our metal sink has worn through, I have to keep a bucket under the sink to catch drips from tiny holes in it. My parents corian sink is lovely to clean and use....but I don't like it for some reason. Its too prescribed for my taste. I don't really mind crazed pottery so we might go for that. I'd rather have stone, but it would be astronomical in UK I think.

michaels

Agreed - the master bath here is stonecast but the other 2 baths are the extra thick guage steel Kaldewei with the non-slip surface - they cost about 250 rather than 100 for the cheap ones but are better in every way imo - for example they don't flex so the seal doesn't fail.

PasturesNew

Well, there goes 1.25 hours ... just deleted a load of spammer posts/topics .... then I tried to post and it worked. Didn't try at the start though, so maybe nothing's changed and it was just one of those things.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't really mind crazed pottery so we might go for that.

In that case you can have the one out of here, complete with a few chips for good measure!

I'm surprised there are any genuinely old ones left. Back in the 1980s there was a craze for taking old pottery sinks, painting them with PVA and then covering them with a cement mortar/peat mix to make troughs for alpine plants.

Still looked like sinks, though!

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

You'll like my kitchen then...

Why do people spoil a perfectly brilliant worktop, hobby space, eating space, project space, homework space, sorting out space..... by plonking a sink in the middle of those?

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Why do people spoil a perfectly brilliant worktop, hobby space, eating space, project space, homework space, sorting out space..... by plonking a sink in the middle of those?

needs must - nowhere else to put it in the stupid "open plan contemporary living space" i suppose. if the sink wasn't there, it would have to be where the hob is.

that picture was taken before we moved in. the stools are gone and we've nicely cluttered the island up by sticking a fishtank on it so there is basically no space at all now.

Davesnave

I am only sitting here wasting time because I've had a big filling and I'm feeling just a tad delicate. This was my first one on the NHS for 35+ years and I'm well pleased. Examined yesterday pm and sorted first thing this morning.:D

Mind you, it's Market Day, and no one here goes to the dentist or does stuff like that on a Thursday.

I should really be outside digging big holes. First architect, he say, "No upstairs on this place for your kind of dosh, matey!" but he's from a posh area and company.

Local architect, he say, "Money OK son, but let's see the size of your footings." So, I have to dig three holes....


....and pray a lot. :A