Owning your own home

Ohm are talking replacing electric showers? What do I need to know? Mine broke this morning.

You sure it's the shower? Check the fuse and make sure it has water flow - no blocks.

Water flows. No heating.

Are you any good with a multimeter?

I've been congratulated on my ability to poke things with a wand before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KpgUdxh9F0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zykruq7ZFV4

Mine was lukewarm so I went straight into testing the tank elements:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzPt1hsfVq4

Loads of videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnNwO8oosyZnx4FZZeRxw2Q

It's a pretty shitty shower. It might be better for us all round to changebthe leakybbath tap, put a new shower curtain in and be done with using a kettle to shower.

what's the deal with making offers on two separate places simultaneously? presumably a verbal offer isn't legally binding by any stretch of the imagination, so if the seller of house A tells us to get fucked we've still got a foot in the door on house B - vice versa etc.

beyond it being potentially a dick move, we're not exposing ourselves to any meaningful risk?

I made on 4 and pulled out of 3 when the one we wanted got accepted #cuntbuyer

No. As you say it’s arguably a bit mean if you get both offers accepted and have to renege on one but so long as you can sleep at night then crack on.

if sellers can tell multiple buyers to do one, surely the same courtesy should be extended to buyers?

fair enough. i mean... since you mention it - i can't sleep of an evening but that's mostly on account of the genocide charges that have been levelled against me.

You're fine so long as you're not in Scotland

a dick move

But the sellers accept/listen to multiple offers and make their mind up about one thats appropriate .. why can't the buyers do the same?

^ is what i said fam.

I should read but I am a designer

Fine in Scotland in my experience if the closing date and time for offers are identical. Happened to me, I had asked in advance if it was okay to have two offers in play and my solicitor said yes. Both offers were accepted and I declined one of them (within about an hour, mind).

Spoke to the council planning office on Friday afternoon, they couldn't find a planning application/approval for the new build next door... It isn't online either, bloody strange...

They're calling me back this week, meanwhile another big lorry full of wood has just arrived... I'm certain they're gonna go two storey which is gonna fuck up our plans to go solar on our little one storey roof...

Da fuq?

Time for a sausage sweep if they catch wind that you're pissing in their milk.

I'm fighting the temptation to pump the builders for information, we'll know what's going on in a few days... Patience, etc...

Just two guys building a house, amazing to watch...

I fully expect the planning stuff to come back 100% OK, but it obvs puts us in a weird position as we couldn't see what our neighbours had in mind before we bought the property...

if they're blocking your sunlight, you could sic the Knight of Light on them.

I fully expect the planning stuff to come back 100% OK, but it obvs puts us in a weird position as we couldn't see what our neighbours had in mind before we bought the property...

Hmmm. Someone should have flagged this up in the buying process, right?

We smashed a low ball offer in on a place this weekend. well, i say we did - the EA now wants us to submit a "feasibility assessment" via their in-house credit checking bureau before they put our offer in front of their client, which is annoying because a) it slows down the process and we need to get a wiggle on and b) you'd think the fact that we've just sold our house using the same EA would give them a fair indication of our credit worthiness.

i was also labouring under the misapprehension that EA's had to put all offers in front of their clients by law, them deliberately holding up the process isn't acting in the best interests of the seller.

turns out the sellers of said property have already agreed to a buyer, but the buyers are dragging their feet and haven't made any attempt to move things along for some time since they agreed to the sale (not sure exactly how much time that means - i'm presuming a couple of months) so they've instructed their EA to arrange further viewings, which is where we came into the picture. They're either going to accept our offer with a bit of nudging, or they're going to use our offer as a threat to the OG buyer by way of lighting a fire under their arses. let's see.