Owning your own home

I'm going to do this in my new house...
You just watch me.

Rad. Crack on.

Nice. Is your kitchen as big as that one?

I'm toying with the idea of a lot of chemistry glassware, on show, for dry and liquid food storage.

That might be the Mad Scientist in me trying to get out however...

Is there a forum builder/handyman?

I need floors replaced and some kitchen stuff done (opening a fireplace etc). Ideally based in north or east London and must have liability insurance and whatnot.

Yeah. Nice. Love the mix of colour blocks and birch ply doors. Then you see the stupid fucking tiny sinks installed by people who never do any real cooking. Just about big enough to rinse the handle of your Gaggia...

Goodbye to this
https://www.facebook.com/ermo.saks/videos/10153320647673586/

This is my life^

I need to take some photos of the various wallpapers we've uncovered. That and the lurid orange bedroom.

It's true.
The sink is the sticking point.

options are either

• a bigger mould form thick plastic thing, or
  
• try to make a deep butlers sink work
  

Waiting for the moving van.....

Still waiting

Right...starting to look seriously about getting out of the rent cycle and buying something of our own - don't need/want to be investing too much and we're not overly fussed which direction out of London it is, a simple two-bed place that means we can get in and out of Westminster without spending a silly proportion of our monies each month on mortgage/travel combined is probably the ideal for now.

Having had a look along the East Coast mainline (grew up in Cambridgeshire) it's incredible just how much the season tickets cost...£7.5k a year each for the privilege of getting to and from Peterborough?!

In and around Dartford comes up as reasonably affordable, but does mean living in and around Dartford...and the train into London Victoria isn't necessarily the quickest at c.50mins.

Any other suggestions as to places that'd be worth looking at?

I must sound like a broken record, but... Grove Park and Downham. I'm a 15 minute walk from a station that gets you to London Bridge in 25 minutes, and the flat next to mine (two bed) just sold for £220k. It's a quiet, slightly dull area, but still affordable.

Who is the forum recommended moving company...?

Reading gets you into Paddington quickly, Essex gets you into Liverpool Street.

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/travel-time/

Zoopla have a travel time search. not perfect but might help as a starting point.

Reading > Paddington season ticket £4.1k a year

Sod that. Live in Downham, ride to work. Travel costs: £1,000 in cake.

Crofton Park/Brockely FTW!

Grove Park FTW!!!!!

{comeonyoustupidsearches}

I've asked about a dozen times and never got a reply, but it's Friday and I'm feeling lucky: where is it?

grove park is highly unpleasant and must be avoided at all cost

(exchanged today btw)

Congrats.

Nice one! Where's yours?

Closer to the station; will spill when completed ;)

Ooh, fancy. I don't get the train much, but when I do, that walk is a pain. Also, the pub...