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I'll see if I can get our standard route my other half used to make us do.

Wrong time of year, but there is also a Golden Triangle of car boot sales sort of in between Mill Hill, St. Albans and Watford.

The great things about charity shops in those sorts of areas is you get mid-century stuff at normal dead old people's furniture prices as opposed to East LDN reaming ones.

Edit: Barnet > St Albans > Harpenden > Hemel Hempstead > Watford

Emmaus tends to be quite good. BHF is a real luckily dip and has probably yielded our best finds, but as an average ratio has 90% shit, 9% good but unsuitable, 1% amaz

And also Ercol sale mentioned in the furniture thread

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14146716/

Need to do about 15 key copies, anyone got a recommendation or who can do for cheap?

Bloke on a stall on Bethnal Green Road does standard keys for £2 a pop - near Percy Ingles.

I'm actually about to flog my four seater folding g plan esque table and chairs as I want something bigger for the new house. If you're keen will get some pics tomorrow.

Ebay and Gumtree are both great for MCM furniture if you're willing to be patient and keep your searches basic enough. For example this G Plan dining set went today for £84 in Morden. If you can collect outside of London there's loads of dining sets around for <£100, sideboards tend to be more overpriced.

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Anyone lived in Ware?

Where?

There on the stair...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fg7w49UnGA

Awards self £650,000 and buys 3 bed knacker in walthamstow

Grew up there

Used to live in Hertford and parents still live there. Wouldn't want to commute into London from there myself. It's not too much of a slog, but it's expensive, a bit unreliable, and the property is very expensive.

Offer has been accepted by the sellers
Now need to arrange:
Mortgage - discussing with L&C, if they give a decent quote we'll probably run through with them + solicitors etc. Looking on MSE for rough comparable estimates.
Building survey - had a quote on some comparison site for ~£500

Survey has been agreed with a local surveyor recommended by the agents. Decided to have a listen and hear his quote, seemed well switched on, professional. Although price of full structural survey will be £1000 for the House and attached outbuildings.

Mortgage looks like we're going with Atom bank (with their shiny app), and conveyancing solicitors have been instructed by L&C. So waiting game with these whilst awaiting approval etc.

Currently, amongst a lot of things, getting clued up on septic tanks. Apparently the current occupier only recalls having his septic tank de-sludged once in about the last 20 years which is a bit concerning. But he's seen no obvious issues e.g. backing up loos/boggy garden.
That said the area surrounding the septic tank is surrounding by bamboo. Going to have to do some serious chopping back and investigating

surrounding by bamboo

make sure it ain't that javanese cockweed.

Bladdy good point. Didn't immediately look like it, but feck that

Ercol factory outlet in Princes Risborough?

Any recommendations for someone to carry out an electrical inspection in SE23 ?

Knotweed is edible.

First hitch with the house buying process.

Received documents from conveyancing solicitors yesterday, with the wrong address on them.

I can imagine why, as we've spoken to L&C about two houses, but only the second one have we actually followed through and offered on. Somehow they've sent across the details of that initial house to the solicitors, a house that we haven't spoken to them about for months.

Simple to rectify, but wholly avoidable delays...

We have unavoidable delays... Seller (just so happens to be my father in law...) has to get permission from the Secretary of State for Defence before he can sell...!

Has he told you about the novichok facility in the basement?

That would be awesome, might help to pay some of the bills. We have found over two buckets worth of a mixture of live and blank rounds, always fun.

You're converting a shooting range?

Standard :')

That would be awesome, but no... just an old farmhouse in the middle of a historical airfield