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I need someone to fit some extra units in my kitchen and a work surface, will involve wall and base units, some patching up of the plaster work, and adding a couple of electrical sockets. Can anyone recommend someone? It's probably only a couple of days work as I will be assembling the carcasses.... Thanks

We used Taylored Lofts last year and I thought they were great. Job was on time and on budget (we had our second child coming so we couldn't afford for it to over-run). We had a few issues that became apparent afterwards but they came back and sorted them out no problem and our new bedroom and bathroom are now the nicest rooms in the house. If I had another loft that needed converting, I would use them again. We also had quotes from Loft Life, Landmark Lofts, Armadillo Lofts, Absolute Lofts, and another couple that I can't remember the name of, when I looked for reviews there were quite a few negative ones for the rest but I couldn't find a single bad one for Taylored, plus I found someone who had used them before and was willing to answer my questions about them which sealed the deal for me. Good luck, it's a minefield!

our radiator is on the wall between the room and hallway, to be honest it's rarely on because the loft is so well insulated so it's quite small amyway

We had a juliet balcony put in and it's great but we get sun in the morning from the Velux windows at the front and from the french doors at the back in the evening, without I think it would be a little gloomy in the afternoons/evening. I suppose it depends on your house's orientation. We didn't find the lack of wall space a problem as the room ended up being pretty big, probably depends what furniture you want to put in there.

Jeremy Wrote: > Wine has to be from the most > renowned chateaus, even though most people don't > know the difference between a good and bad wine. I was in Singapore a few years ago at a party and the host served some French wine that was so corked I nearly puked...he had been happily drinking it and talking bollocks about fruity notes all evening

I thought it was really pathetic...lots of people eating things that are expensive rather than because it was nice. The Chinese guy clearly didn't like caviar but felt the need to eat it because of the price, and the "ladies" at the caviar tasting clearly knew sweet FA about it but still trying to out do each other.

I drilled a few holes in the drive of my old computer, broke a few drill bits in the process...they are tough!

I used this lot last year and thought the work was a high standard, came back to fix an issue for free after some strong winds. http://sallows-fencing.co.uk/

Personally I think a company name designed solely to be first in a list is a big red flag...

Any recommendations for a company to build me a home gym/office at the bottom of my garden?

hmmmm...3 posts from "tinahomemaker" all of which recommend Central London Lofts....draw your own conclusions

I had one done last year by Taylored Lofts, they were very good and am happy with the work, they even came back after a couple of months to fix a couple of small issues without complaint.

Has anyone got CCTV? I'm thinking of installing a system to monitor the front and back of the house and maybe a few internal cameras and would like something that's easy to install, gives good quality images, and is viewable from the internet/a smartphone as well as records to a hard disk. Any recommendations? Are the Maplin systems worth buying?

I have just finished a loft extension and it cost 65k all in including a new boiler, pressurised hot water system, decorating, carpet, the whole lot.

we are having ours at Didi Dinos in Crystal Palace park, ?100 for 3 hours

There's plenty of teach yourself books around, will be cheaper and you can use the money you save to have some fun in SF :-)

I would also go after the building control company. They are required to have insurance so you my be able to claim from them.

They include fire doors for whole house (Howdens Joinery ones) supplied and fitted, we supply handles, but you can choose others and pay the difference if you want. We also wanted larger Velux windows and unlike other companies they are only charging us the difference in the price of the windows. They are including 7sqm of tiling, any more than that is extra so depends on bathroom size.

I am currently on week 3 of an 8 week build with Taylored Lofts, there are doing a good job so far and I'm very happy. Their guys work long hours (8am-7pm) and sometimes weekends (we had the stairs put in last Saturday). We went for them because the boss James comes across as a nice honest guy and their quote included quite a lot of stuff that other companies say is extra (French doors, tiling, fire doors, etc).

Has anyone used them? We are considering them to do a loft conversion and they said they had done a lot of work around ED and Camberwell. Can you let me know your experiences of them?

have a look at 1&1, they have a tool to build your own depending on your requirements

I had one fitted in my last house after a burglary and when they came back for a second go it scared them off with just a handful of my possessions. I think it will deter some but not all the scumbags...the main thing is to make your house less desirable to burgle so they do over someone else instead

Most damp is for reasonably obvious and easily sorted reasons, in my Victorian terrace house it's been: - blocked gutters - blocked drains - bad seals round windows Where is the patch? Take a look at what's going on outside round the damp patch, it's probably a gutter that is a bit blocked so overflows when the rain gets heavier but you may not notice during "normal" rain

I suppose it depends what sort of fence you are going for, a cheap panel type is the same both sides but the vertical slat type has the horizontal supports between the posts....but if you are paying, you get to choose what side you see! P.s. I just had mine done by a guy in Beckenham, very happy with it, pm if you want the details

In my experience the parent and child spaces are at a premium and occupied all the time (except at unsociable hours when the rest of the car park is empty too) so I find it hard to believe that the rest of the car park was full except this space, so as I have already said the OP is a total w*nker! There are rules in our society (things like not dropping litter, not taking a p*ss in the street, being polite to people, joining a queue at the back, etc), lose these and then it's a free for all and it's all going to go to pot