Owning your own home

If she wasn't so desperate to sell and buy a place she's fallen in love with it'd be great to just pull the rug from underneath the twat.

Its Hertfordshire so the buyer will probably just knock it down and build two houses in the same place and sell them to gormless new money footballers

Honestly in this sellers' market I'd be like 'my stock response is "get fucked"'

Aye man, I will be accepting zero shenanigans when we come to sell

We had a builder round for external rendering.

He emphasised the benefit of acrylic coating (can't remember what he called it, might have been a trade name) over sand cement render in terms of the flexibility and the fact that the paint is mixed into the render that is skimmed on.

Has anyone else had something rendered, and what would you recommend if so?

We're not rendering the whole house or even the front, just the back wall of an extension where the side wall is already rendered, and also replacing existing, crumbling render under a bay window.

Ta!

Our parking issue was resolved once our solicitor remembered her basic land law and that breached restrictive covenants weren't enforceable after 20yr of breach.

Made up a new bit of land law, more like. No such legal principle.

Hepworth v Pickles?

Got to be honest once it was mentioned it rang a bell.

For our van hire we went with Emterprise, seemed reasonable compared with all the others and far cheaper than previous efforts with Zipvan (over a day).

Cheers.

Ill take a look. I found one in Hackney for £70-85 for 24hrs, which seemed like an OK price.

just noticed these on the outside wall of my house. How worried should I be?

The wall backs onto parking spaces and someone may have driven into it.

Always had decent service from Boleyn hire in Dalston

just noticed these on the outside wall of my house. How worried should I be?

The wall backs onto parking spaces and someone may have driven into it.

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I used some offcuts from the kitchen worksurface to make a coffee table - pretty trivial stuff, but fun:

A covenant which is openly breached and not enforced will eventually become unenforceable, but there's no fixed period of 20 years after which this occurs.

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Nice work

Saw that on FB. Really nice. How did you join the pieces?

Hmm. I fear that doesn't look good. I'd suggest you need a structural engineer to look at it. Either pay your own or ask your buildings insurance company.

Balls. I was thinking that but hoping otherwise.

Right. But 20yrs appears to be the generally regarded point you can regard it as unenforceable.

It our case its 35yrs.

It's a cavity wall so the brick wall that you see from the outside is only 10cm thick and pretty much non-structural. You could get an engineer or surveyor to look at it to try and assess whether it has been caused by someone driving into it, or some other cause, but I wouldn't panic. It's the inner wall that holds up the floors.

Trying to work out what happened - if someone drive into the corner and it moved there might be more cracks around the corner? Or if they hit the wall to the left and the corner effectively didn't move, are there more cracks a car width away to the left?

Our landlord is selling our flat at the moment if anyone's in the market for 3 beds in Tulse Hill.

https://www.kfh.co.uk/south-east-london-and-north-kent/herne-hill/se24/flats-for-sale/2167626/

It's been on for ages so I think he'd take a sneaky offer. Great flat, needs some work but I love living here... shame I ain't got the cash myself! I would say the photos don't really do it justice

Sand and cement render will basically waterproof the wall which can cause damp issues inside. If it's just replacing what used to be there then it probably won't cause any issues but that may be why he was trying to steer you away from it.

what's on the other side of the wall? I don't own my place where I am living at the moment, but I have noticed a patch of damp on the corner of the ceiling in my bedroom, didn't think much of it for a while as it's a basement flat etc, but it wsa getting bigger and fast, so decided to investigate - there is a small crack on the wall outside, probably less than 10cm long and far less noticable that yours.

I would be fairly worried...

I would say the photos don't really do it justice.

Truefax. Its an amazing place. I know its 550k but I think its a bargain for the location and the size of the place!

Dirty great garden.