@pashmina696 sorry, I have no idea on door handles. I’m having similar problems. Our originals are late 20’s/early 30’s and I really don’t like any of the replicas, because they have a ridge around the middle, whereas our original ones are lovely and smooth with no ridge or join.
Dd, in typical style, chose Invictus carpets, which are beautifully soft and plush, but over £45.00 sqm! I am not paying that for her room, given she is a terror for dropping make-up and spilling paint etc (GCSE Art this year) and getting it all through the carpet. We’ve found a compromise though and the salesman said it’s no problem for them to fit it next week, we just need to call tomorrow morning to confirm a day . Dh and Ds1 need short pile 100% wool if possible or 80/20, as they both have dust mite allergy. (Couldn’t use wool in dd’s room as she would destroy it.) Think I will probably go for velvet, as it’s softer underfoot, but still need to make a final decision on colour. We are going with a local shop, as they have been really helpful, I was hoping to reduce costs by using remnants, but their storage was flooded this week ruining their remnant stock.
We found out the other day that we can’t have a living room carpet fitted until the new joists and floorboards have settled for at least a month, so I’m just buying a cheap remnant we can loosely lay in the meantime and will get the living room and stairs done together in a few weeks.
Dd is a lot happier since we went round yesterday. It definitely feels more like a house that needs decorating and a bit of work, rather than a building site now.
Dh, dd and I are planning to move back in the weekend after next. Still two weeks after the builders promised, but by then we will have finished painting upstairs, have all the upstairs flooring down and the builders will have installed most (possibly all) of the kitchen. I say possibly, because they are complaining about my choice of finish/treatment for the oak worktops being time consuming.
This week the living room is being plastered (that’s the last bit of plastering to be done) the en-suite is being grouted and bathroom tiled. They are starting to fit the kitchen on Monday. Oh and our new front door is going to being fitted.
Then it’s mainly smaller jobs, like boxing in the pipework in the bathroom, replacing the bannisters and re-hanging the doors. They are allegedly going to start shifting excess tools and excess materials off-site as well, which will be a relief, as it definitely still looks like a building site outside. I desperately need them to shift various piles of bricks, bags of sand and other bits off the drive, as the new internet company need to be able to access the border to run their cable to the house asap and at the moment you can’t see it, let alone get to it!