Owning your own home

We're in a hotel room in Turkey. I think we might stay here for good. They have a pillow menu. And complimentary prophylactics.

Free house in Sydenham if anyone's interdasted. Just promise to feed the cat twice a day.

We have off street parking.

That’s insane! Think ours is 1.5k ish all in.

I’m really worried it’s over priced now. Not due to needing to get that price, just that it’s kinda embarrassing.

No keep it as it is. Test it for 2 weeks. If no bites then reduce it. That has the benefit of stimulating further interest but also making anyone think who does buy it that they've got a deal.

Layout 1:

layout 2:

One's back to front but you get the gist...

It has a proper soil pipe (although there is a small boxing in under the eaves where it goes, the space would be useless for anything else).

Does it go round to a stack at the back, or does it connect at the front? With layout 1 the pipe would have to go right from front eaves to back of the house.

We saw a few examples and the smaller rooms didn't seem worth the money and without plenty of windows they look a bit dark, velux don't seem to provide as much light as full size windows I thought.

Yeah that's what I'm worried about. I'm stalking old loft conversion planning submissions on the Haringey Council website, going to knock on a few neighbours' doors and say "scuse me, can I look in your loft?".

Nothing dodgy ever happens in lofts in Tottenham, I can't see any way this will end badly.

I've got an L shaped layout 1. Works well.

Is this any help? Can get some pics or feel free to come have a look. Based in wood green.

Ah thank you but I think you have a full width dormer not an L-shape, so you get to have your bathroom at the back and still have a lovely window in the bedroom.

haha has it been on the market long. You moving this way then?

Yeah I was wondering that - if we went for it would only be if there was a decent size garden to do a side return extension, loft etc @Hobo what's the garden saying?

I've got an L shaped layout 1. Works well.

Do you have - ahem - plumbing issues? Or any problems fitting in full height wardrobes without blocking the light.

Also, roughly how wide is your house? Ours is pretty skinny - the Victorian equivalent of a Barrett starter home.

That part of Leytonstone is super desirable - https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/47399683 still needs a lot of work though

Wow, that place is massive!

No plumbing issues. It was borderline whether we would have enough fall for the toilet sink and shower so we had a saniflow fitted instead. Works just fine. Just don't put anything other than shit and toilet paper and wee down it and it should give years of good service. I think my house is about 4.5m wide. We don't have a wardrobe in the loft ATM but funnily enough were looking for one at IKEA the other day. We might just got for a single wardrobe or a 1.5size wardrobe. IKEA have some ok ones. Our loft has a 2.1m finished head height so don't want one that is over 1.8m tall or so.

Soil pipe goes from bathroom near the front out to the back.

I also spent a considerable amount of time on the Haringey Council website, I'm over near Green Lanes on the ladder though with a fairly wide house (looks like it's about 4.2m wide so main room is 3.1m wide (and 7.5m long with about 3.8m at full height (ceiling is about 2.1m)) and bathroom is 1.1m). I'd definitely look at a few, some of the L shaped ones looked like they'd squashed too much in there, particularly in a narrower house.

I assume you own the whole house. Haringey aren't keen on approving L shaped conversions if you only own the upstairs flat.

Back from sweden and catching up on life. Valuation hasnt be received/reviewed by mortgage provider yet so still in valuation limbo

Yeah it’s a big boy

Cheers.

Keeping this number for future use.

After subsidence and three years worth of knocking our house about the rear elevation is pretty scabby.

Does anyone have a tradesperson they can recommend for rerendering and paintng the back of my house?
SE4

Are you wanting to insulate it at the same time? I might do if so...

3 viewings this week... lets see how they go.

Time to get making coffee and baking bread.

Also, put an offer in on a place (went for asking price, not here to fuck spiders) and found a case study on a very similar house on an architects site, will defo "pay homage" if all this goes to plan (unlikely, when does it ever?).

I hadn't thought so.
Is that a thing?

The render is a scabby crumbling mess. The brickwork underneath probs won't come out of it well if we strip it off so we are just looking to net it over and scratch and skim.

I see that Leytonstone house of horrors has now sold stc

Our brick work is, to put it kindly, fucked. We're getting these chaps - https://www.eco-rend.co.uk/ - to put up 100mm insulation, with aluminium sills over the concrete sills, and then about a cm of rendercoat over the top. I think it'll come to about £7k, but should stop penetrating damp, and improve our insulation hugely. Also, the VAT is only 5%, rather than 20%, as it's an insulation product...

https://youtu.be/8KWW_mx8i4Q
I think is a video of the installation of what we are having done.