Just came in to express my
at the talk of replacing those tiles with underfloor heating and wood floors. I bet the tiles are cold underfoot but how much of anyone’s day is spent in the hallway? If it were a much smaller house, having low level constant underfloor heat in a central hallway might make some sense (and that is how underfloor heating should be used of course - year round very low heat) but they have a high ceiling so won’t capture any of it at all. It’s a stupid environmentally unfriendly project to rip out perfectly nice and very serviceable and practical tiles for this.
They are so stuck fiddling around the edges of a perfectly nice house they can’t add much to. If they’d bought a genuine renovation project there would have been years of material but they didn’t. If they want to provide genuine content they would be talking about how hard it is to find trades at the moment or over the past two years, but instead they’ve gone for this fiction that FoD does it all. He/they cut corners/do things badly or dangerously and we’re expected to lap it up.
Surely no one at all (haven’t looked at the comments he presumably has) is looking at this nonsense about basement access and agreeing that just sticking a door in the hallway causes issues? If they want to do it up as a separate residence, fine, but just say that’s what you’re doing! Maybe they haven’t realised doing that requires all the paperwork and planning it does?