Owning your own home

Can't help with before shots but the mob I referred @Tenderloin to did these two houses in the link below in my road.They look pukka Imo.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-62195036.html

They look great.

How the f*ck did that idea ever get off the whiteboard? Massive design fail.

Wish I'd just fixed the old sofa now, the same fixing on that one was crap but a lot less so.

Wouldn't be quite so bad if the recess was actually deep enough to get the stamped tin foil spanner onto the nut. But in the event, two out of four aren't.

Negative email to the futon company pending.

And those 4 nuts are the only things keeping it sofa shaped so it's reasonably important to be able to tighten them up.

Would have been worth just checking that the idea actually worked.

No wonder it was on sale. Jut not enough so, it seems.

Yeah, 1st world problems; I know....

Looks like they are using a much cheaper version of a fixing that works in that fairly standard size hole to save a couple of quid each corner. I guess having a selection of spanners to hand would make it less frustrating.

Std spanner is difficult to get into the hole cos of the lack of clearance. Pair of narrow nose pliers and a lot of swearing has got it reasonably solid.

Swearing always helps.

Swearing always helps.

A full set of both metric and imperial swearwords is a must for any DIY.

The power of Google. Lovely job, I agree.

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Orlrite rascals.

One of you fine fellows mind casting a beady eye over these legal fees to see if anything sticks out as weird?

Legal Fee £510.00
Leasehold Legal Fee £250.00
ID Check Fee ( Per Name ) £10.00
Mortgage Legal Fee £75.00
SDLT Legal Fee £50.00
CHAPS Fee £30.00
VAT on Legal Fees £185.00
Search Pack £249.00
Completion Searches £6.00
Land Registry Fee £95.00
Stamp Duty Land Tax £1300.00
TOTAL £2760.00

The freeholder via the managing agent will levy a fee to record the fact youve charged the title by way of mortgage too, so I'd budget a ton for that too.

Tbh I fucking hate leasehold there are so many ways for you to get your pocket picked.

The rest of the fees look OK.

Thanks buddy, worth being aware of - I'll add it into my 'sundry bastard tax' list (a list that's getting depressingly long). Appreciate the response.

Honestly if I could get a freehold for under £200k in London I'd bite the guy's hand off, but sadly that boat has sailed a while ago. One day!

Just saw this in an auction catalogue. https://auctioneertemplates.eigroup.co.uk/LotDetails.aspx?LotID=841880&a=5&c=brn

I'm not even sure how a Freehold Bike Rack would work.

Could you live in it?

ransom strip?

unhappy with your neighbour?
own a ransom strip?

for a no-win, no-fee ransom strip claim...

Doesn't look like it. There are a few of them in the auction along with some car parking spaces.

I'd also be interested to know who these guys are, do you mind sharing again? Got some horrible external textured paint that we want to remove

http://www.essexbrickworkandrepointing.co.uk/gallery-of-work/

Cheers, will add them to the list. For anyone that's interested, we had jigsawbrickwork.co.uk round to quote, they've done a few similar houses near us in E17 and the results look good. Only thing I was unsure of was they use a brick sealant after grinding the face of the bricks back, but were unable to say how long it would last or what the long term effects would be...

i used the essex guysfor the front of my place and they did a good job

That's good to know - I've told them we'll be going ahead in the new year

It depends on how soft your bricks are, whether or not you'll have to seal or not. I believe it's something like once every five/ten years.

Pounds have dropped to a new all time low today... the rich has got richer and more oversea investors buying houses like sweets, yay!!!!

(How do you do that middle finger emoticon on here?)

And British-made goods have got even cheaper on the international markets.