Owning your own home

deadly srs.

The interest on taking £50k extra out of @Dammit 's house would be £77 a month.

The only issue is that he'd probably spend it all on gold lame seats for his Porsche.

Does anyone have any recommendations for shutters for sash windows? My Mrs is French and now we've got our own place is desperate to have proper shutters like she's used to back home. Had a look online but I've no idea how much things should cost, also where do you measure your window from, the outside of the frame or inside?

The only issue is that he'd probably spend it all on gold lame seats for his Porsche.

Four seats as well - a lot of gold lamé

Without being able to poke around upstairs I don't know how to proceed. I'm going to contact management to get owner's contacts for above flat. If the guy above is just a tenant he's useless to us.

If water is coming from outside into wall cavity that dickhead at management should be interested enough to send a guy to protect the buildings.

If plumber ruins my walls just to tell me it's coming from upstairs, what then?

Also freehold flat owner with nationwide.

Found the leak. Had another look after pulling bath sides off. Another pipe from somewhere internal. Maybe from kitchen. Looks like it's all our issue. Thanks all.

John Lewis ones are ok - our place had them when we bought it and we can see no reason to change them.

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So, next question. How do I dry a wall that's possibly been leaked on since xmas 2010?

How long are plumbers liable for their work?

Very slowly, I'd imagine...

Yep keep an eye on any woodwork nearby, too

I would guess either a fan heater,
or,
a good de-humidifier.

De-humidifier would get my vote, the heater won't take the water out of the air.

Definitely get a dehumidifier, we've got one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/Meaco-Portable-Compact-Dehumidifier-DD8L/dp/B007X236NQ

It's a bit spenny but it's excellent, we were mainly using it for drying clothes but the last place we rented had a problem with the pointing and the bedroom walls were damp and moldy, we blasted that on and the walls were pretty much dry after about 3 days.

had a problem with the pointing and the bedroom walls were damp and moldy

I'd have thought the plaster and wall would have parted company had the moisture been coming in from the outside. Most 'FUCKING HELL OUR PLACE IS DAMP' issues come down to poor ventilation and indoor clothes drying.

Hmmm. Raise finance secured on your home to buy a non-yielding speculative asset? I don't have the cojones for that (although I'd have made a lot of money in the last few years if I did).

Is there a cheap(ish) way to have gas burners fitted directly into a metal worktop? The off-the-peg hobs I've seen like that are in the thousands - we don't have enough worktop stashed away to fit a normal built-in hob when we redo our kitchen and I thought a 120cm stainless section with the burners would be a good solution, rather than a free-standing cooker, so we can get one of those silly Bake-Off ovens.

I don't know what actual cause was, but it was a problem that existed when we moved in, we were told it was the the pointing and they would fix it when it was dry (they didn't) . We've moved into our own place now so it's not something I'm worrying about, but what I do know is that dehumidifier is incredible at removing moisture.

(although I'd have made a lot of money in the last few years if I did).

And had a lot of fun too.

I'm only joking really. Rusty old cars are already slipping in value.

The woodwork is fucked. You can push your finger through the skirting board.

The skirting board seems to have acted as a sponge so the plaster nearby isn't too bad. Might replace the skirting board after fixing the plumbing up.

Of course I gave my dehumidifier away so I'll have to hire something now it seems.

I do have a small radiator I could move into the kitchen. No fan on it though. I could use my turbo fan to blow it towards the floor.

The one I gave away was a 10L/day refrigerant one. Cost ~£80

Missus is going to see if she can borrow one from work. Otherwise I'll see what's on ebay or probably hire an industrial one for a week.

Or shit plumbing work in our case. This was the same cnut that couldn't install press-fit piping for my coffee machine.

Any pointers for good, free, simple software (either online or Windows preferably or Linux if it's particularly good) for drawing out floor plans, kitchens in particular (i.e. with cupboards, white goods, etc templates already in the software).

Cheers

I do know is that dehumidifier is incredible at removing moisture.

Oh, yeah, absolutely - we have two in our flat. One for day to day that clears out moisture from the bathroom and the other one we use in winter to help dry clothes.

Guess what - we never, ever have any problems with damp.

I bought one for my tenanted flat. It's in the lease that they must use it. Not once have I seen it being used. But they seem to dry an awful lot of clothing indoors. And guess what - they whinge about 'damp'.

Same plonkers that thought they could defrost the freezer with it still turned on, so what do I expect, I guess. People - arrrgh.