Our build thread, renovation and extension

[E36GUY]

Our neighbours here at work are called CAD stairs and seem to be insanely busy which I always deem to be a good sign!

http://www.cadstairs.co.uk/contact.htm

[jonnydrama]

I'm with the others, there has to be a nicer option for the staircase.

[Muncher]

Yep, I agree, always good to bounce ideas off people!

I've been picking up kitchen appliances on eBay as they come up, just got myself a Neff Series 5 steam oven for £570 which has a RRP of £1,200. It's only 2 months old and is being removed because it was placed too high for the lady to use, bargain

[furtive]

http://www.stairbox.com/ have an online design tool and they offer full length embedded glass as well as other glass styles:

http://www.stairbox.com/staircasegallery.html

[Muncher]

Ooh, I like that!

[Pferdestarke]

Agreed on larger glass panels. Nice work on the steam oven. Take a look at Gorenje appliances - a Slovenian hidden gem with lots of features to rival Neff.

[dxg]

I'm preferring the smaller panels. The edges of the glass provide cues of the traditional banisters:



(Hate the wood finish on that image: it will date terribly).

[Muncher]

I like that as well, good idea.

[Kneetrembler]

Muncher said:

Yep, I agree, always good to bounce ideas off people!

I've been picking up kitchen appliances on eBay as they come up, just got myself a Neff Series 5 steam oven for £570 which has a RRP of £1,200. It's only 2 months old and is being removed because it was placed too high for the lady to use, bargain

Friends of ours got rid of their Neff steam oven because after every use the inside of the oven was full of water from the steam and needed mopping out each time, so not sure that I want that problem.

[Muncher]

I'm bit sure if it was you that posted that before but I did a fair amount of reading and couldn't find anyone else that had that problem. As it is here early I can leave my parents to play with it first to see if it is any good.

[E36GUY]

furtive said:

http://www.stairbox.com/ have an online design tool and they offer full length embedded glass as well as other glass styles:

http://www.stairbox.com/staircasegallery.html

If you did those panels in a frosted finish you could slide some LED strip in underneath and make them glow. Looks brilliant.

[Muncher]

I think my Dad might be brushing up his router skills judging by the prices coming back!

[Ranger 6]

Kneetrembler said:

Friends of ours got rid of their Neff steam oven because after every use the inside of the oven was full of water from the steam and needed mopping out each time, so not sure that I want that problem.

Now I find that strange - you get condensation with steam and lots of condensation in a steam oven, what were they expecting?

[Muncher]

Strangely the full size glass panels are actually cheaper than the smaller ones by a few hundred quid. With Stairplan it's working out at about £3.4k for the whole lot which still seems very steep to me, pardon the pun.

[Muncher]

anonymous said:

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YGM. No diagram but it's a a straight staircase of 15 rises to 2.86m and 4M of ballustrade with 2 and a half newel posts at the top.

[cuneus]

Muncher said:

YGM. No diagram but it's a a straight staircase of 15 rises to 2.86m and 4M of ballustrade with 2 and a half newel posts at the top.

That quote is daylight robbery

[Kneetrembler]

Ranger 6 said:

Now I find that strange - you get condensation with steam and lots of condensation in a steam oven, what were they expecting?

Not to have to bale it out after every use, and I would have thought that with a top quality oven that this would have been sorted prior to coming to market.

[Muncher]

First 2 rooms plastered as a test and in my mind its a pretty poor job, time to find another plasterer!

[Pvapour]

Muncher said:

First 2 rooms plastered as a test and in my mind its a pretty poor job, time to find another plasterer!

can you throw some light down it and take some pics?

we've just tape & jointed our upstairs and i think its a better finish than previous plastered walls we've had done by the 'pros'

[Craikeybaby]

The first room we had plastered was crap. The second two were a lot better, but still not perfect. I imagine perfect is possible, but it will take a long time/money.

I think we're going to use the second guy for the rest of the rooms as the small defects we had were mainly below skirting board level or aren't noticeable unless you're right next to the walls, with the room decorated and furnished you can't see them.