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

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've found it. Fascinating place.... perfect for jiggling around.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-32712877.html
It's the shower room on the first floor.

Whoever drew that floorplan was either incompetent or didn't care whether it was done properly. Look at the front door and also the stairs, both of which pass through walls.

vivatifosi wrote: »

I wonder if the following would be feasible for Lydia in a small space:

Have space set up as a wet room. As you walk through the door, its a shower immediately against the door, the door could be treated so that it's waterproof and is the barrier one way, there could be a screen the other side of the shower which could be retracted most of the time when being used as a toilet. Then you could have a space-saver cloakroom basin on the wall and the toilet against the far end. I don't know if this could work, probably a question for doozer, but it turns the space on its end - if the floor to the shower is wetroom treated, showers themselves don't take up much space so it should be feasible to walk straight through/past to the toilet.

Yes, when Pastures suggested making it into a wetroom, I thought the shower would go in the middle with the loo at the far end. But when I saw the floor plan, I thought it would be better to put the upstairs shower room or bathroom in the space currently labelled dressing room, and turn the current shower room into storage - much needed because there's no loft.

Not sure what I'd do with downstairs - it's such a muddle it would take me a while to get my head round what could be done with it.

Can I just clarify - when I said I could see why they'd done it that way, I didn't mean that I would have, or that I liked it, just that I could imagine what their thought processes must have been. And when I said I couldn't think of a better way of doing it, I didn't mean that I thought it was the best way of doing it, just that I couldn't at that stage think of what ought to be done.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Not sure what I'd do with downstairs - it's such a muddle it would take me a while to get my head round what could be done with it.

Depends how many people you're trying to fit in, but I see an annexe for a family member, or a rentable annexe under an AST, or a holiday let opportunity.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've found it. Fascinating place.... perfect for jiggling around.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-32712877.html
It's the shower room on the first floor.

They've got the dimensions wrong on the floorplan, it's not as wide as they're suggesting. Even moving the door so that it is at the top of the stairs, opening outwards towards the stairs so you don't immediately fall down them, would help. Toilet to the left though it would still impede.

But I'd turn the dressing room, clearly too small to be a bedroom, into the main bathroom, return bed 4 to it's original dimensions with little ensuite behind the storage cupboard, turn the storage cupboard to a downstairs loo and the upstairs shower room to storage.

The bedroom4 wall will be studwork, easy to remove. The poo pipe for my new bathroom is already there, as for the new ensuite. So there is additional cost of introducing the plumbing upstairs but it reintroduces the correct proportions, gives you 4 proper bedrooms (it's only being marketed as a 4now - might as well get it right!) and a small but sensibly arranged ensuite with the door in the middle.

lostinrates

IMO its a really bad idea to have a shower wet room between a loo and a door. Wet socks are not nice.

I've having problems with thanks and with hotmail. No idea whether this is a real problem or one with my little piece of technology.

I'm really haemorrhaging energy. I've had to go back to bed this morning . I feel a bit like I'm slowly fading:(

Davesnave

silvercar wrote: »

Clearly an attempt to encourage the man of the house to wee in the toilet, rather than the shower, (while showering obviously).

Hmmmm.....I don't think I could pee into the loo from that shower. :eek:

(And is there hard evidence that more men than women pee in showers? )

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

the way to avoid that is to book thinks in your first name. People are sometimes surprised but rarely complain. Easier if you are a man though, as men's names can be taken as surnames by those totally resistant to informality.

i don't think mine really works as a surname, but that doesn't seem to bother the president of nigeria.

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

(And is there hard evidence that more men than women pee in showers? )

Well, we could have a quick poll, but I've NEVER pee'd in a shower, nor even thought to do so!

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

IMO its a really bad idea to have a shower wet room between a loo and a door. Wet socks are not nice.

I've having problems with thanks and with hotmail. No idea whether this is a real problem or one with my little piece of technology.

I'm really haemorrhaging energy. I've had to go back to bed this morning . I feel a bit like I'm slowly fading:(

Hope you feel better soon lir. Sounds rotten. I wonder if it's the weather. Everyone at work has had headaches or migraines recently and we've all felt really lethargic.

I'm trying to do my ironing at the moment. It's been iron a couple of shirts, sit down on the sofa and watch ten minutes of Wanted Down Under; iron 3 pairs of trousers, sit down and watch a bit of Homes Under the Hammer... and so on.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well, we could have a quick poll, but I've NEVER pee'd in a shower, nor even thought to do so!

Snap.

Anecdotally, men claim to know other men that pee in the shower - though of course they all deny doing it themselves. Women don't know any women that would even think of doing it.

silvercar

vivatifosi wrote: »

I'm trying to do my ironing at the moment. It's been iron a couple of shirts, sit down on the sofa and watch ten minutes of Wanted Down Under; iron 3 pairs of trousers, sit down and watch a bit of Homes Under the Hammer... and so on.

I multi-task, I do the ironing while watching HutH.