Owning your own home

Until age takes them out of the jobs market and puts them into life's great scrap heap.

#notbitter

lol

how easily can you get another job?

Not going to be much of an issue; I was stuck in a bureaucratic arsehole of a visa which I won't be anymore and will be able to access the whole of job market vs the ones that are ready to sponsor a visa (which is no one).

Despite owning it for about 2.5 years, it hasn't been my home until Monday. Finally got moved in and now actually own my own home. Goodbye and good riddance rent payments!

How do people not go fucking mental waiting for solicitors to get their act together? It equally likely that they've done nothing versus them having ordered all the appropriate searches. I suppose just naturally having to be all over shit at work means its difficult to leave somebody else to get on with things and trust they will let me know in due course. Still, comeoncomeoncomeoncomeobcomeon

It takes a long time for banks to get to the point of kicking you out of a property.

Just ride the storm @amey.

Most of them would rather give you a payment holiday.

What B&D says. Whatever you end up doing probably isn't nearly as bad as what landlords often get up to, in my experience. Just go for what you can.

Waste disposed of to @cake. What a nice gent.

Fundamentally you should communicate this at some point - the banks are significantly more helpful than they used to be. Largely due to the fact that it's a massive administrative pain in the arse for them to get to the point of eviction.

Searches ordered

Mortgage approved. I now owe Coventry BS £74,800 plus interest!

Why are so many people in the trade absolute shyster cunts?

We had people round this morning to clear the waste from our back garden. There was a substantial amount of both loose bulky waste and building waste and we were told it would all be gone by 1pm.

I just got a call from my partner to say they've taken the bulky waste but are refusing to take the rest of it now and are saying the dump is closed, and want payment for the stuff they've taken or they're threatening to put it all back in the garden.

Why is it so hard to get someone to do a fucking job and see it through without ripping you off and being a cunt? Argh.

certain trades attract those kind of people more than others. Waste removal is one of them.

Waste removal

'taking the piss'.

Waste Removals London - avoid them at all costs.

The annoying thing is they're well-reviewed online, and were actually polite, friendly and helpful before.

Sound like shysters. They'd have known the dump would be closed when they agreed to it surely? Also don't they have their own premises? Where are they taking it, the local dump? Complain.

Was there a reason you didn't just get your builders to do it? We just get skips from Brewsters and the builders do the humping stuff out to the skip.

The other problem with waste removal firms is with half of them you don't know where it's going. Brewsters are ISO 9001 this and by appointment to the Queen that so you know it's legit, not ending up fly tipped in a lane in Kent somewhere which is what I suspect happens to half of it.

We've got our fourth skip coming today actually.

Can recommend Portable Toilet Hire London for this. Our 'thunderbox' is reliably emptied every Wednesday...

As someone who cycles through the lanes of Kent frequently, I can confirm this is the case.

Fuckers.

We didn't get our builders to do it because we're sick of them saying they'll do something at a certain time and then offering excuses, we're trying to direct jobs away from them so they finish everything by the end of June.

As for the skip, apparently they have a truck which comes round for building waste, and it was unexpectedly full so they couldn't make it to ours in time. No apologies offered, just demands to be paid now. They're licensed and registered and the rest of it.

We're properly at the end of our tether with our works now, so many of the jobs we've had so far are yet to be finished or need touching up that the whole thing is just a stressful and depressing mess, and getting fucked around like this with what should be straightforward tasks just compounds it.

Sadly, that is most people's experience of builders and home improvements. The majority of builders are not completer-finishers.

Learn to do stuff yourself.

That's all very well but my job is part funding our work (like tommmmmm too I imagine) so the amount I could spend on site would be very limited because I need to pay the bills.

Also even though I understand everything our builders have done so far and could at least have a go at replicating it, when you're doing builds of the scale we are there are a lot of things that would be impossible for anyone to do on their own, never mind someone with a climbers build like me. I don't fancy trying to move tonne bags of sand, digging enormous holes in the garden or filling multiple 8 yard skips. No way we could be doing this without contractors.

I do know that feeling. Although ours are reasonably reliable everything does happen later than originally estimated.

Sorry to hear you're that fed up anyway.

I'll probably be at that stage in a month and a bit :/

#Sandpaper what @Señor_Bear meant.