Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

PasturesNew

How's Gen?

I never did get round to going back and trying to get to the place Sue sorted out for people.... I'm not good at remembering things like that.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

........and I didn't even notice anything'd happened.

Although, to be fair, I'd have not noticed anything had happened if I'd done/said it ... whatever it was .. and whenever.

Whoosh ... is the sound of everything passing me by.

We luvs yoo anyway! :beer:


Maybe you're like a person I once knew who, years and years ago, in the 1980s, was visiting me one day for a cuppa /chat.
In the space of one long conversation she managed to say that she didn't like brown decor, or fringed lampshades or (one other thing which I've forgotten), and how they were awful.
At the time, all three things were the rage, and we were sitting in a room, (mine), with a brown-painted wall, a brown fringed lampshade, and (whatever the other thing was).

I went to the kitchen to get something, and I suppose that while I was away, she had a look at her surroundings, because when I returned she apologised.

The thing was, that this was just her; I knew what she was like and that it wasn't malicious or sarcastic and she wasn't out to belittle me or anything.....she simply didn't notice things. I had just let her comments pass me by, whilst feeling at worst just slightly bemused. :cool:

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Whoosh ... is the sound of everything passing me by.

Today, woosh is the sound outside my windows. Nothing passing by (yet) but it is definitely a tad draughty out there

GDB2222

Anyone got a ball park estimate of the cost to convert a garage into a bedroom with en suite?

To include:
Suspended timber floor.
Plasterboard for walls and ceiling + insulation.
New french windows.
Build solid wall where garage door is now.
All plumbing, tiling, electrics.

I have plans if anyone interested.

GDB2222

Pyxis wrote: »

We luvs yoo anyway! :beer:


Maybe you're like a person I once knew who, years and years ago, in the 1980s, was visiting me one day for a cuppa /chat.
In the space of one long conversation she managed to say that she didn't like brown decor, or fringed lampshades or (one other thing which I've forgotten), and how they were awful.
At the time, all three things were the rage, and we were sitting in a room, (mine), with a brown-painted wall, a brown fringed lampshade, and (whatever the other thing was).

I went to the kitchen to get something, and I suppose that while I was away, she had a look at her surroundings, because when I returned she apologised.

The thing was, that this was just her; I knew what she was like and that it wasn't malicious or sarcastic and she wasn't out to belittle me or anything.....she simply didn't notice things. I had just let her comments pass me by, whilst feeling at worst just slightly bemused. :cool:

You certainly come across as well adjusted, just happy to be you.

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

You certainly come across as well adjusted, just happy to be you.

Oo-er!

You don't want to see me at the Full Moon, then! :rotfl:

michaels

GDB2222 wrote: »

Anyone got a ball park estimate of the cost to convert a garage into a bedroom with en suite?

To include:
Suspended timber floor.
Plasterboard for walls and ceiling + insulation.
New french windows.
Build solid wall where garage door is now.
All plumbing, tiling, electrics.

I have plans if anyone interested.

Are you doing your bit to solve the housing crisis in the SE?

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

Anyone got a ball park estimate of the cost to convert a garage into a bedroom with en suite?

To include:
Suspended timber floor.
Plasterboard for walls and ceiling + insulation.
New french windows.
Build solid wall where garage door is now.
All plumbing, tiling, electrics.

I have plans if anyone interested.

In your neck of the woods? Take whatever number doozer comes up with and then triple it for post code pricing!

You could post on the diy board, some people there good at estimating.

Do you need planning permission to convert garage door to solid wall?

Pyxis

silvercar wrote: »

In your neck of the woods? Take whatever number doozer comes up with and then triple it for post code pricing!

You could post on the diy board, some people there good at estimating.

Do you need planning permission to convert garage door to solid wall?

That reminds me of aeons ago, in the early days of Brookside on the TV, when the 'rogue' family of the Close decided to 'illegally' convert their garage to a bedroom. In order for it not to be noticed by the powers that be, they kept the roll-up door, and built a wall just inside of it! :rotfl:
It made me wonder how many copy-cat conversions there were after that! :rotfl:

Planning laws are different now, I think.

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

In your neck of the woods? Take whatever number doozer comes up with and then triple it for post code pricing!

You could post on the diy board, some people there good at estimating.

Do you need planning permission to convert garage door to solid wall?

I think it might be permitted development - only because when we had our extension one restriction was that converting the garage to a room would not be permitted development.