Owning your own home

i don't get the hate for dammit's mid terrace - looks great to me. lovely setting. most of you must have had some dreadful experiences with neighbours in the past

I also don't get the hate for being mid terrace in a terrace of three, you can take turns dragging the bins up the lane, I also say go for it

fine being mid-terrace if you're paying mid-terrace prices and you're not out in the middle of nowhere with your neighbours...

Bins! Now there's a question, I wonder what happens with for e.g. the recycling.

What is the correct price for the mid-terrace, haunted house?

The layout of all walls typically matches flats above and below. These (tenement) structures aren't particularly resilient to wall removal. (Have I misunderstood your question?)

FFS, we're trying to buy a house, remortgage the current one and extend the lease at the same time. Completion date is end of this month and we just had the freeholders solicitor email in saying "Just to confirm – we require a consent from the Law Debenture Trust in order to complete the lease extension. This can take up to 1 – 2 months to obtain"
There has been no mention of this at all and I started this absolute ball ache of a process in February. Fuckety fuck

Demolition started on our house today

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Demolition on our house started today in earnest

What is the correct price for the mid-terrace, haunted house?

Number of ghosts, spirits and supernatural disturbances needed for calculation

Appreciate your input, ta. A good test of the logic.

You haven't got much cupboard space with this.

Indeed. There utility becomes a pantry, though.

Extract air to the outside?

Might look into this. Suspect it's difficult as the flat is in a conservation area so anything new on the outside needs planning permission. Might be exempted for vents, I need to review the documentation.

Having a sink > prep > cooker is usually a good thing

Agreed for sure. Don't think I can though, for the available budget.

Reduced depth full height cupboards for a portion of the chimney breast

Not shown on the plan is a recess (Edinburgh press cupboard) that is receiving the fridge and microwave) between cooker and window. So not planning to run work surfaces in front of all this. However the plan allows for extension of the cupboards and surfaces around there and in front of the window if o change my mind!

Swap the draining rack

Cool, could work, will have a think!

Today's four figure surprise is that we need a new subfloor as the ventilation is not good towards the rear of the front room, moisture has been getting in and there was a lot of damp under the floor. Also the joist level moves 5cm down from one side of the house to the other.
As we want it all flat and the same level the site manager has suggested a concrete subfloor just as they are installing for the kitchen.

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Can I borrow that when you're done? Need another £36k

Couldn't they sister all the joists and bring the level up that way? It will cost a lot less than a concrete floor.

I dont understand why no one has snapped it up yet.

Because the Venn diagram of people's wishes that match that house, need a new house and have the money is precisely 1 every 3 years.

Not sure about yer builders choice of footwear for that type of work

They didnae fuck about though did they

Those feet belong to Rumpelstiltskin

ventilation is not good ... moisture has been getting in and there was a lot of damp under the floor.

I suspect this is happening in my house, hidden by the laminate floor. There are weeds growing out of the airbricks at the front, that suggests a certain amount of moisture under the floor...

Also - are you hoping that decorative plate will still be there when your building works are done?

One day I will get the ground floor redone, with insulation under the floorboards. Until then, out of sight, not quite out of mind.

How about heating, water and sewerage?

Saw this locally and thought of you... has its own tennis court and borehole!

https://rushwittwilson.co.uk/property/stonestile-lane-hastings/

If there's a tendency to damp, I'd worry that slapping a concrete floor down in (what looks like) a Victorian terrace is going to channel damp to places that you really don't want it, and will be next to impossible to fix without digging it all up again.

What is causing the damp?

Even starting again with a bunch of 2x6 is going to be alot cheaper

Heating - oil fired, and the Aga in the kitchen is coal fired (there's a coal room!)

Appears to be on mains sewerage, but I'd need to double check that.

Heating - oil fired, and the Aga in the kitchen is coal fired (there's a coal room!)

Even oil fired ranges are a bit shit, but coal fired? Fuck that noise.

I'd like to see some photos, the Ikea planner doesn't do it justice!

I think you need a building warrant for something like that, we've just gone through the process of applying to take a wall down and put in an extractor vent. In Edinburgh and in a conservation area. The agent we were assigned was a trainee with, we think with little experience. It would have been less painful to bang my head against the wall until it came down, it was next to impossible to talk to him on the phone, my emails went largely unanswered and unread.

Because so many flats have that same layout you could probably have a look at rightmove and see what other people have done? My parents first flat in Edinburgh was exactly like that!