Owning your own home

I bought a Hoover, it was the only one I could find in black!

They pack everything unless you don't want them to pack something.

We packed clothes and higher valuables (jewellery & watches) into suitcases ourselves and they did the rest.

It's something they do every single day so i guess the key is just having the mindset that they couldn't care less about what the items are or who you are. It's only you who'll feel awkward...

For me, the convenience and stress relief of them doing that work is so much more than any feeling of intrusion.

I let them do everything except the sex toys.

That is a herculean task.

Everything including wardrobe contents. They turn up the day before the move and for a two bed flat took half a day. Piles of boxes around the edges of the rooms.

They struggled getting the swing down but we're fine dismantling the stocks.

Don't they need to be registered with DEFRA for that?

£420k mortgage? Serious cohones!

Wut?

12,000/5*100 = 240,000

Ah misread, thought it was £21k!

I bet you have a special sex trilby.

As if there's a German company whose name is very close to Third Reich...?

Job one, if it's just cutting the trench, you could easily do yourself.

Recently discovered how cheap HSS Hire is, and how much fun massive tools are. £60 for a breaker for the day, and we had a flower bed cut out of the concrete.

Yesterday, a big angle grinder for £30 (plus a blade from Toolstation for a tenner) and I cut through the coping stones on the top of the garden wall easily.

You need a breaker maybe then a better and grinder to finish it off! I quite like doing stuff like that but 20ft sounds like quite a job.

the amount of time and arse ache to break up that much concrete isn't worth it. Pay a bloke. Your hands will thank you.

I once spent a summer taking up a school playground with a cango, it was fucking orrible

You can actually buy a place in London for less than £200K??

https://www.your-move.co.uk/property/flat-for-sale-woolwich-common-london-se18-id-528554689

i mean is woolwich london?

You can get 1beds for a similar price out in wallington/carshalton etc.. which are just as far out altho technically surrey

I bought a Hoover, it was the only one I could find in black!

You can't keep food in a hoover though can you? Unless it's dry food and you suck it up then get it out the bag when you want to eat it I suppose but that's a bit grim.

Whatever you do don't try hoovering up a yoghurt.

Woolwich straddles the South Circular, it's not really that far. I'd say anywhere within North and South Circulars is most definitely London.

Woolwich Arsenal station is 25 mins from London Bridge. Wallington use 25 mins from Victoria. Much of a muchness really. Distance wise Woolwich is closer to a London terminus though.

One of the biggest reason we didnt opt for wallington/sutton/carshalton/croydon was that there is NO decent cycling route into London, literally nothing. If you are bike dependant in that area you either have to bare some A road traffic or be immobile. SE in same radius is slightly better. Woolwich is London and will be on crossrail soon.

I'm going to wire in some bedside lights, is this braided cable ok?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fabric-Covered-Braided-Twisted-Lighting/dp/B00P76IXV0

Ideally I'd find something to match the colour of these lights: http://www.made.com/truman-task-wall-lamp-matt-memphis-blue

Anyone?

IAmNotASparky etc

But why would you bother with braided aesthetic cabling for non visible wiring?
If your chasing it into the walls then just use standard no?

As long as you have an appropriate fuse in the plug. Not sure what that would be but guessing 3 or 6 amp. Otherwise the cable could heat up and catch fire (this is very unlikely to ever happen!).

Heals have them in their shop (or used to, haven't been past in a while)

Poll: better to comfortably go for a 10% deposit or push for a 15% deposit and have only a couple of £k left between my girlfriend and I for exciting stuff like a boiler breakdown?

Makes a pretty big difference to repayments, so if we went 15% we could save faster and for longer (fixed five year at 1400 pcm). The 10% five year is 1590 pcm for comparison, which is a lot more than we currently pay in rent...

Thoughts?