Owning your own home

will be next time. kitchen as well

Ah that's a bit shit. I know all the people between his and mine and I can't imagine it being any of them, maybe it's some of the people further up.

Say what you want about Dion Dublin, he knows houses.

https://youtu.be/MTjs59onomo

That was a glorious 2 and a quarter minutes

Thankyou for this. So much.

He's not making much off the place I don't think. The kitchen/bathroom are both new and he's done the garden and put a new boiler in. He's moving to Kent. He likes his cars so he was understandably upset when one of them was keyed..

Hahahaha.

In other news. Our contract arrived today.

Floor is done

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It looks great (nice steps especially), but you're going to have a hard time umpiring those games.

Gotta be in Glasgow going by the old firm.

People have more money than sense sometimes and also no common sense. Some of the valuations for white goods on the last page or 2 is insane

Looks great, cant wait to see what it looks like with furniture and stuff in it to get a real feel as thats what I want.

Going to get a router and nose the steps. I've left a 22mm overhang on each step for the nosing, the boards are 21mm thick. Does that sound about right?

Looks really good. Can't wait to see it when it's been finished.

Thanks for the pebbledash advice all - funnily enough @Tenderloin that's the company I had bookmarked and was going to call for a quote! They seem to have a good rep.

@TW and @Señor_Bear - you're right about the risk of the brick being fucked, but it definitely a lot of people locally have had it removed successfully. Someone's just had it removed on the street we're looking at and it looks great. There's always the risk of render being the final result, but that would be better than pebbledash.

I actually think the bigger problem is the missing pieces of original stonework, those mullions, window heads and key stone would all presumably need remaking by a stonemason or similar (thanks for the terminology @Kurai because I have no idea what bits of houses are called!)?

Anyway, we went to view it today, liked what we saw and found out that after a day of being on the market we've got a cash offer at asking price - in the middle of a conversation with the agent about whether our offer would be taken seriously, so that was fitting.

Now the joy of Stow Bros best and final offers by 3pm Monday. Ugh.

Classic.
They will definitely have 3 offers...

But nice work on a cash buyer 😎

Sounds about right - they had 20 viewings in total so how many of those will actually turn into offers? Sneakily listened into the agent on the phone to the seller, they didn't have any offers by the end of today. It does need a lot of work so I'm hoping that will put people off.

It's ridiculous but they have so much of the market round there, just gotta play the game.

Thanks, it was a tour I did so I'm taking full credit 😂

Could really help with the whole Hackney cyber meltdown situation. Monday is going to be interesting!

Great news @fox. Hope the new place comes good.

I bet you're pleased with that, and rightly so.

It looks as though the mullions are still there, no? Even if they don't have the fancy bit at the top that the neighbour has.

It's difficult to tell from a photo though, amd without seeing under the soffit of that nasty roof thing.

You can buy a lot of stonework off the peg too.

I'm definitely not the right person to ask for answers like that!

@Bobbo maybe?

Great job, Dov!