Owning your own home

The flat underneath us in Gateshead had an indoor toilet but no bathroom. There was a short length bath in the kitchen where the head height was reduced by our back stairs, with a wooden cover that made it into a worktop. It must have been there since at least the 50s. Tenant was waiting on the landlord to put a shower cubicle in one of the bedrooms, but we were there 5 years and he was still sans bathroom when we left in the early 00s

Shit frontage is de-rigeur for the Corbett. Tidy street frontage is for the influx of new money and the #influencers. There's a limit though, our neighbour's rusting freezer and carelessly discarded cardboard packaging (why not just put it in your recycling?!?!?!) is maybe a bit too authentic.

I miss #rep for comments like this

This sounds very cunning. You'll never be burgled

I bet, I think for bridging loans and auctions you have to make an application to bid on each house, (if there's more than one in the auction you like)? Depends on the auction type, some online ones are still run as a 'traditional auction' where you have to pay up within 28 days, the 'modern auction' gives you 58 IIRC.

Guide prices are usually low as well to get people into bid. Worth checking out area for any contamination risks because winning the auction isn't subject to surveys ie contracts exchanged day of auction.

In terms of trying to sell appliances to a buyer. Annoyingly, I had to replace my washing machine in March and the freestanding double oven in Sept, both registered for warranties. What is a reasonable percentage of new price to offer them at?

I would have just thrown them in if they were old, but ideally I will get something back as they are pretty much new.

Crazy. This was owned by an elderly lady since the early 90s I think. Gave the neighbours an eyeful everyday, must have been freezing.

Also Ban Ham sounds Sharia compliant

People tend to let them go cheap because it saves hassle for both sides, but if you stress how new they are I'm sure you could ask a bit more.

Ultimately second hand appliances are a buyer's market though. Not sure on percentage, maybe try 60?

Going to look at this tomorrow, very compliant with the @amey method of theft prevention.

Has anyone done pebbledash removal? Googling suggests it would cost maybe £4-5k in Londons famous London.

It also needs that silly roof removing, the stonework over the porch restoring and probably a new sash roof building unless it's under there...

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£4-5k

Does that include raking out the mortar, re-pointing and repairing any damaged bricks?

That looks Victorian, so the bricks will be relatively soft (particularly the reds) - taking the cement off them will take a lot of the brick face.

Keeping in mind also that render / pebbledash is a quick & dirty way to cover up structural / cosmetic problems.

Make sure to reinstate the fantastic aerial once you've removed the pebbledash.

Yeah, those multistocks are gonna be fucked.

Nice flat render over the top?

Shame those mullions are gone, and the nice window heads.

I can send you details of pebbledash removal company, did mine and recommended to others - good team think it was £2k all in (Inc scaffold). Think you've seen my place but it looked very much like that and we didn't have any horror stories.

Apply appropriate sheeting to scaffolding where necessary
Safely remove pebbledash from brickwork
Rake out existing mortar to a consistent depth of 20mm
Clean brickwork, removing mortar stains and any build up of carbon deposits
Replace damaged brickwork with matching yellow stocks (10 included in quote, £8 per item thereafter)
Repoint brickwork in NHL 3.5 lime mortar to replicate original in a traditional Flush finish
Remove bagged debris/waste from property leaving front garden clean

If it were me, I would not state them as included in the property inventory form - I think you can usually put down the number you want or leave it blank and negotiate. If you can supply warranties then I would think 60%-70% of value seems doable. Getting people in to fit washing machines or ovens is a PITA at the moment and not having them sucks.
Our range oven was included, 4yrs of heavy use and we got them to pay 80% of what we'd paid for it.

Can’t imagine anyone paying 60% of a washing machine they didn’t chose - especially if they are smart enough to realise the leverage they have.

“I can offer £10. You should accept that or I’ll make you take them with you.”

Our range oven was included, 4yrs of heavy use and we got them to pay 80% of what we'd paid for it.

Then again, people are weird.

Or they have to spend their first two weeks sorting out people to come and fit new appliances and remove the old smashed up ones.

Breach of contract if they don’t remove their stuff. Leaving deliberately damaged goods behind out of spite would be a proper dick move.

Obs a huge ballache to get costs for removal from the seller but a buyer would be entitled to them and I wouldn’t want that hanging over my head.

Lol what contract are you breaching? Offering £10 for a fairly new washing machine would be the dick move. You're buying a house for £xxx,xxxx if you're quibbling over a couple hundred quid for a washing machine then I'd just tell them to jog on.

Front Door (house)
If that's a Yale type rim cylinder...

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Deadbolt 1 (house)
Deadbolt 2 (house)
Euro cylinder Deadbolt case and

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Bike Store
Storage Unit

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Do find this amusing - yeah the house is £4/5/600,000 but the washing machine will be another £50!

That said, we got £150 for curtains and lightshades that we'd otherwise put in a box and probably take to a charity shop in 5 years time. Also said we'd leave our washing machine (it was on its last legs) which then annoyingly broke so I had fun sourcing a replacement for as cheap as possible.

The bit of the contract that states the property is free of the seller’s items. This is standard.

I wouldn’t say £10 is likely - that’s an extreme example, but it could come down to that if the buyer doesn’t care for the appliances you have.

Or they’ll just say “no thanks” and suddenly the seller has the ballache of getting rid of them. Most won’t survive a move. Which is why a buyer has all the leverage and can offer tokens or 30% or whatever. If they are paying more then they are a bit naive or over generous I think.

Pro-tip for buyers: to avoid this nonsense just state what you want as a condition of the offer.

Technically both parties are quibbling over a couple hundred quid.......

Repoint brickwork in NHL 3.5 lime mortar to replicate original in a traditional Flush finish

Name of the company pls!