Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

michaels

The 'modern' approach might be to open up all the existing downstairs into one room so you can share the light from the front and the back but I know that is not the way you like to live.

What is the impact on the side window of the proposed development of the adjoiing site?

The new addition could obviously have a sloping roof and velux windows which are great for bringing light in but unles syou leave a window/knock through the existing room then the light isn't going to get there but that doesn't really help as I know part of your objective is to have a seperate utility/craft room whcih definitely needs the door onto the garden.

Glass doors on the kitchen and big room doors would obviously help keep the new corridor to the stairs light but won't help with the loss of light to the back of the new big room.

What if the new room was only say 15 feet long you could then knock through a new glass door doorway from the new entrance hall/sun room at the front of the new extension? (And then not have a door into that room from the new 'corridor to the stairs' at all)

Sorry if this description doesn't make sense, it is much easier to talk with sketches than words.

mystic_trev

kabayiri wrote: »

A RAV4 (or my 4x4) is just as incapable as any other car when stuck behind other cars trying to make it up a snowy hill !

Not with winter tyres it 'aint

GDB2222

How does the cost of a two storey extension compare to a single storey?

kabayiri

mystic_trev wrote: »

Not with winter tyres it 'aint

Yep. Out in Canada they get real snow. Winter tyres make the real difference there. The problem with our climate is true snow tyres wear out too quickly when the snow is intermittent or patchy.

The Fleet providers have offered flexible tyre policies as add-ons here for some years now, but the take up is nothing like it is in continental Europe.

bugslet

SingleSue wrote: »

Yesterday we booked to go to Cuba next July for 2weeks (I was MSE about it and didn't take the pee)

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Everyone that has been there has said how fantastic it is.:beer:

michaels wrote: »

The NP summer party this year may just be on Bugslet.....

kabayiri wrote: »

No, that would be if Bugs had said "I buy over 4000 bud lites a week"

The amount of money I'm saving, there's probably enough to buy 4000 Buds by summer.:D

kabayiri

GDB2222 wrote: »

How does the cost of a two storey extension compare to a single storey?

The metric I recall was 2200 per sqm compared with 1500 per sqm.

(Figures are probably out of date now)

kabayiri

PasturesNew wrote: »

Cheers. Nice to have a rough idea.

My only offering on this housing lark is to plan; plan; plan ...

then do some more planning

The more decisions you can work out up front, the easier the job is for the builders. It should be cheaper.

I saved plenty with the kitchen guy, because I had every part number of cupboard; drawer; handle; edging; etc worked out. He didn't need to go and work out anything.

I used a 3D home package to draw out all the planned extension changes. You could walk through the design.

There are free ones online

silvercar

Nearest petrol station is an Asda one, petrol and diesel 99.7p for both. Queues suggest it is the cheapest around.

kabayiri

PasturesNew wrote: »

My PC isn't up to it. I've tried many times over many years to use those and they just freeze my PC up.

Even loading MSE freezes my PC up ...and the DM ...and ...well, most sites, most days. I have to run CCleaner 2x a day and do two reboots just to keep this chugging along.

Is it a laptop or desktop? What's the RAM/CPU/model?

I've got a toshiba laptop spare somewhere. It doesn't run windows though (actually it might have a charging problem...I've not checked for a while).

michaels

PN if you got a memory stick / usb stick and assuming your pc is usb2 you could set up somethign called cloudberry which you boot your pc in using the stick and it turns the PC into a 'chrome book' - ie a machine that runs much faster for web browsing - won't support other tasks but will give you a much better internet experience and because it boot sform the USB you can always just take the stick out and boot into windows as normal if needed.