Builders - don't you just love them!

[veggiechicken]

Goodnight Potty, enjoy your nightcap! Thanks for being here

[SarzWix]

If you're having a wooden door, can the dog flap go in the door? That would save you some wall space? And your entrance hallway only needs to be a lobby big enough for the door to open, and some coat hooks and a boot rack on the wall opposite the door? If you can put a folding door into the utility room bit, that would make more usable space in there as well.

[veggiechicken]

Thanks Sarah. The dog flap has to go to the back of the house which is enclosed so that they don't roam everywhere. The front door has to go to the......front! I have a pair of narrow doors that I may reuse to divide the hallway from the utility bit. As it was, the front door came into the utility and that was pretty awful! I'm having an open porch over the front door too, with a place for boots and wet coats but the boiler is going to have to go in the hallway - in a cupboard.
I actually find all this planning quite exciting and these builders are very amenable and flexible when I change my mind about things! They're still in the doghouse about starting without telling me so at the mo I have the upper hand

[SarzWix]

Why does the boiler have to go in the hallway and not in the utility?

I would love to be planning a rebuild/reshuffle of my entrance way and utility room; whoever designed it had no sense whatsoever, and all of the outside walls have stupid things like radiators, downstairs loo, windows and doors which prevent the washer and dryer from going there. So I have random dryer exhaust pipes and plumbing in all the wrong places! One day....

[veggiechicken]

The pipework from the thermal store (in the house) comes out through the house wall and into what will be the hallway. It shortens the pipe runs if the boiler is as close as possible to the store. The boiler was further left, in what will be the utility area but it takes up so much space, that would be better used by the washing machine, sink and freezer - and they'd look even more incongruous in the hallway!
This is an upside down house with the living rooms upstairs, so anyone who knows the house comes in upstairs over a bridge at the back. Its only strangers who head for the first door they can see!
Must go, expecting the builders any second!!

[chris]

did you get your design sorted?

[veggiechicken]

did you get your design sorted?

Perhaps........! Just talked it through with Mike and we drew lines in the sand on the foundations and I walked around, pretending everything was in place!!!
They've gone for the cement mixer - to carry that up 50 steps - as well as all the sand etc. Hope they stay fit for a few more weeks
I shall clear orf soon and leave them to it - you'd hate that. Chris
They hope to have the roof back on by next weekend

[lottie dolly]

morning,hope you got something sorted VC,my only thought was regards your washing machine,where are the drains,or maybe they have yet to be done,or a long length of pipe with corners will do the job,could 1 of your appliances fit in the space under the boiler,unless you got a ground siting one,then forhet it,but you could have cubard space above then,if you get what i mean,

[veggiechicken]

Hi Lottie, The outside drain is at the back of the house. The washing machine was in the front and the pipework ran right around the room - it was a pain! The boiler is floor standing but they're going to build it into a cupboard with shelving above so that it will not be so obvious. Once the shell is up we can refine the internal layout, the main issue this weekend was the doors and window. We're almost there now

[chris]

Well when it's done I must have another nose May as well trans-locate one of those nice plants you have too

[veggiechicken]

You're always welcome Chris
What nice plants? If you mean the ones in the original photo they belonged to the house vendors.........

[Potstubsdustbins]

Shelving above a boiler, there should be a heat resistant board between the two. After all we wouldn't want your smalls ablaze now would we.

If you can't make something out off that one I'll eat my hat.

Potty

[Mikey]

Sorry VC, I'm only just reading this, I'd have planned it in 3d for you had I known.

[veggiechicken]

Well Potty, I just don't know where to start -especially as this is a Family Forum
Perhaps I can just ask how much of an air gap should I leave between my smalls and the heat source? I don't think there's any risk of friction burns
PS please don't eat your hat - them arrers may stick in your throat - and tickle

[veggiechicken]

Sorry VC, I'm only just reading this, I'd have planned it in 3d for you had I known.

If you had, would I have had to wear funny glasses to see your plan?