£800,000 in debt after making sure they had taken all the money they could no doubt. The Dyes could easily solve your letterbox and sealed unit issue if they were interested in doing the right thing, as they only place these orders with another company in Lithuania, who are still the same supplier for Hatches. Fyntons/Hatches are basically selling on the contract for significant profit...if they ordered those parts again for you it would cost them next to nothing. Being a Covid issue is absolute nonsense...every other business involved in building and renovation is booming since Covid. And how strange to set up an identical business right in the middle of lockdown! Saw an opportunity to run with the money and start again.

That colour was f&b stony ground which is actually red based but I think must have some green in, I thought it would work with the terracotta tiles. Something like the lighter shaded white may also work although colours are normally a couple of shades lighter on the exterior. The previous owners of our house painted it farrows cream, I swear it gets more yellow each day! I don’t know anything about the render tbh but I don’t think it needs any maintenance for 20-30 years hence the initial application cost is dearer. I’ve attached this link as I’ve come across a few similar comments (but as I say I don’t know anything about the render and you’re always going to get negative reviews of things). It might be worth creating a separate post on traditional versus through coloured render if you have any concerns? http://www.ebuild.co.uk/topic/15160-traditional-render-v-k-rend/

Hi Sunny, I'm guessing the layout is like this then? Which is why you wanted a 900mm wide shower. I'd actually go with the 900 x 1200 as it's longer and will suit the room better, plus, if the layout is like this, then you have the room for it. Here's a link to all those in that size from Victorian Plumbing, so depends what your style is. Victorian Plumbing. They sell loads, so i'm sure you'll be able to find one that will suit. One thing to watch out for is the size of the basin and toilet. You will be better off with a short projection toilet and don't come out too far with the basin either as the space to exit out of the bath will be lessened. Regards to flooring, tiles etc, that's personal choice. What style do you like, what colours do you like, and most importantly what is your budget for the project?

Thanks E D and Shjuly! Some more pictures to help explain are attached. The first one is the internal view looking out towards the retaining wall as it is now. The retaining wall is north facing but the patio doors facing it (on the black extension) are south facing. There is light streaming in the patio doors during summer but as we're on a slope and it's near a hedge, in winter when the sun is low in the sky, I'm not anticipating it to be as bright. We do have a roof lantern in the space and another set of doors on the other side so I'm hoping the space should be light-filled regardless of the season. The plan is to pave the area between the patio doors and the wall but the area is too tight to have a table or chairs outside so it will really be an entry way and a space into which the doors can open on warm sunny days and evenings when we are entertaining. We will have our dining table adjacent to those patio doors in the first pic. I've mocked up (very poorly) the wall in black and white in the other two pics. at this point, we are leaning towards painting it black with potentially some larch vertical cladding added to the lower portion of the wall (by the bi-folds) at a later stage.