Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Just as well if you had your own grub, or you would be robbed. Sandwiches and a cuppa can set you back a tenner in an airpot.

Blimey .... I'd rather starve than pay that. Done that plenty of times before, having seeing ridiculously high prices for food.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Sounds like an "arm and a leg" moment......

That poly makes helluva row when it rains too.

I don't think the cost is very different, but I am a bit worried that suddenly my conservatory come sleepout will be a "non standard construction". Therefore if we come to sell I'll have surveyors tutting and buyers trying to negotiate the price down.

ETA, I can't find lots of pics, but this sort of thing:
http://www.guardianroof.co.uk/conservatory-replacement-roof/

GDB2222

vivatifosi wrote: »

I don't think the cost is very different, but I am a bit worried that suddenly my conservatory come sleepout will be a "non standard construction". Therefore if we come to sell I'll have surveyors tutting and buyers trying to negotiate the price down.

ETA, I can't find lots of pics, but this sort of thing:
http://www.guardianroof.co.uk/conservatory-replacement-roof/

Could you just put some heavy blinds into a standard conservatory and have the best of both worlds?

vivatifosi

GDB2222 wrote: »

Could you just put some heavy blinds into a standard conservatory and have the best of both worlds?

Not really - I don't want a conservatory... I want a sleep out. It's a different animal, but I'm trying to get an Aussie construct to exist here using British construction methods. They are kind of covered verandahs that you can open up a side of in the hot weather (which if you set your watch should arrive July 17th 2018). It will be a new build, not an adaptation, so I'd rather hold off and build an extension if that ends up being my only option.

Thankfully conservatory man at least got the roof idea, but you should have seen the look on his face when I said I wanted to be able to have flyscreens.

michaels

Could you not just build a standard extension and put in bifold doors all along 3 walls and fit mosquito netting (I think you linked to suitable netting a year or so ago?)

Itismehonest

Viva - Do you want a glass room/patio roof type thing?
Like these

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Viva told me once that you can join many libraries for e-books.... you don't have to live in the county. And it's true, I did apply to one and get a card. You'll have to find which ones allow it.

I know that Herts is one of them.

My sister lives just over the Essex border (about 3mi in), and she has some involvement with a Herts library. She works in Cambridgeshire, for complete transparency here

misskool

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Just as well if you had your own grub, or you would be robbed. Sandwiches and a cuppa can set you back a tenner in an airpot.

I had a hot meal and a glass of wine for £7 in gatwick the other day. Which I thought was reasonable But I do live in the SE.

vivatifosi

Itismehonest wrote: »

Viva - Do you want a glass room/patio roof type thing?
Like these

It looks lovely, but not practical for me. I can't sit out in sun due to brush with melanoma. So what I wanted was an extension, with a wall of bifold doors so I could sit out without sitting in the sun. If I have this built as an extension, with all that involves, I think it will cost about £20k all in. If I can get a conservatory with a fake slate roof, it will cost around half of that. That's my logic anyhow.

Itismehonest

vivatifosi wrote: »

It looks lovely, but not practical for me. I can't sit out in sun due to brush with melanoma. So what I wanted was an extension, with a wall of bifold doors so I could sit out without sitting in the sun. If I have this built as an extension, with all that involves, I think it will cost about £20k all in. If I can get a conservatory with a fake slate roof, it will cost around half of that. That's my logic anyhow.

Ah, I see.
I'm not sure what the planning on it would be but, that aside, I think you'd probably have to make sure that you got a conservatory specifically designed for the extra roof weight you'd be subjecting it to. Even fake slates are fairly heavy.