Owning your own home

Also depends whether it's bikes only, or a general shed with room for bikes.

We have 6x6 shed with three bikes vertically along one wall, and a set of shelves along the opposite wall. It's pretty tight, and bigger would be better, and other euphs.

You can come too if you like, my back passage is easily accessible....

Now I know the basic size dimension, I can start plotting.

@Tenderloin

what happened to the idea of moving to walthamstow? with your budget there was plenty on the market. good luck with your new pad anyway.

Nope, strange that

Was always looking at Walthamstow - Leyton - Leytonstone. We ended up going a bit souther as we liked the road and house.

We had 12 bids rejected before this was accepted, around the cricket pitch it Leyton is just super expensive.

I do not know were I can put this
But here is my free heating...
free heating

free heating

free heating

How is that free? What's the fuel?

@tenderloin welcome to the hood. I live on Chichester road and its a great area to live in, we are very happy here.

I live in a wreck of a ground floor Warner flat in E10. Slowly renovating it. Sadly in the 1980s and 90s it was butchered by a DIY have-a-go hero, including a chimney breast removed and propped up by two vertical timber beams, and a spectacularly illegal RSJ holding up the floor of the upstairs flat, supported at one end by an acro prop stood on a joist. When anyone walks around upstairs the whole of the front of my flat vibrates. Still, it's stood up for at least 20 years so I doubt it's about to collapse just yet, and this weirdness meant that I was able to get it for a fair amount below the asking price.

Having said that, I want to make everything proper. I can do most things DIY apart from proper buildery stuff. Can anyone recommend a builder who can move my back door from one room to another, and sort out the RSJ and chimney breast?

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fair enough. i know the market is mad in walthamstow.
my mate just bid 50k over asking on a 3 bed wreck in walthamstow and still didn't get it.
you not bothered about being a fair distance away from public transport? i'd go towards leytonstone as there's value there, but can't help thinking it's in the middle of no where.

Doesn't it make your house smell like a chippy? Is that necessarily a bad thing?

That's interesting. I never deep-fry anything, though, so it wouldn't work for me.

Do you even downham?

six bikes shirley? Including that mad light Guru hill climb bike that you are building soon ;)

I'm new-Downham.

SoDo®

(south Downham)

Even Leytonstone is quite expensive now compared to a year ago.

Let's start using that: it'll push up prices 5%.

Yep, post-ironic flytipping pics on instagram with that hashtag ££££££££££

Did it for Walthamstow ..

12 bids on the one property?! Or spread across others.

Pénge

oh and to all the south Leytonstone haters who say its in the middle of nowhere, don't forget that you can walk to Maryland station in about 15 minutes or so where you will (in the not too distant future) be on the overground.

or you can get a bus to leyton tube - the 58 takes no time at all. or you can walk.

fact is south Leytonstone offers you much more square footage than Walthamstow et al and people are wising up to it.

does anyone remember the ladies who were on locationx3 about to buy that crappy flat in Walthamstow recently? well they came to their senses and purchased the house a couple down from me in cann hall.

good decision imo.