Owning your own home

Does it still work when the lights are on indoors and it's dark outside?

I'm sure I read on that Active windows site that thats when it has a reverse effect so get dressed or get some curtains/blinds at night.

Maybe some magnetic curtains? Otherwise; no.

Yes, I was incredibly unclear there. I meant like a one-way mirror but without the mirrored effect which obviously is nothing like what I wrote.

So... and forgive me if i'm unclear here; not a one-way mirror?

I seriously considered it when my buyer fell through but eventually decided the risk was too great.

I couldn't afford to leave it empty and pay the mortgage so would need tenants. That then probably knocks out the first year or so in terms of a sale and if you can't line up the sale with the tenancy you're going to have expensive vacant spells. Renting was also a very low yield as the tax position isn't as favourable as it used to be.

Also, if you can't get it sold in the three years you're getting extra stamp duty. However, with the expected turmoil in the next few years there's a reasonable chance that property values will fall and you'll have to decide whether to hold on to it for the price to increase again or sell in order to reclaim the stamp duty.

You're obviously doubly exposed to property price fluctuations as well. Also things like the proposals to do away with capital gains tax and merge it with income tax could impact (although if it does it will mean the property value has increased).

Does it still work when the lights are on indoors and it's dark outside?

I've just been out there.
No.

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thanks, yeah i guess future risk is alot more unknown than immediate risk, while I think we’re safe for the EWS1 issues but worried about whatever else 2021 could bring

This is good info thank you. we wouldnt be looking to rent and would just hope we would eventually get a sale, but i hadnt really fully explored the ‘what if we havent sold in 2 years somehow’ even if that feels “unlikely”

not a one-way mirror?

One way mirrors don't really exist, what calls itself a one-way mirror is just something relying on the difference in light levels between inside and out.

I see you too have read Childhood's End.

I see you too have read Childhood's End.

No, I just went for a wee up against a window I thought had blackout film on it but was actually a window of a restaurant full of horrified diners and children (Won't somebody think of the children!) looking at my tiny knob.

</apocryphal tale>

What cuisine was the restaurant?

I am fully aware of that. Hence the reply.

It changes each time the story is told.

You could go for a poo here though: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/see-through-loo/

There was a mountain loo with a glass front on the slopes in Laax. (Photo removed.)

@amey, it’s our time to shine brother!

https://glassolutions.co.uk/en-gb/products/priva-lite-privacy-glass

A product of magnets. Electricity
Kinda exclusive Golf club prices

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There's a fancy restaurant up the Shard which has a loo right up against the window with normal glass.

Not telescope proof...

I should have got onto this before now - can anyone recommend a surveyor to do a full fat survey of a house in Walthamstow please?

Urinal or toilet?

I actually can't remember now - friend went ages ago. I distinctly remember him using the word 'crapper' because it amused me at the time so I reckon the latter.

We did. The plan was to sell, but offers dried up, so we got tenants in and now we're slumlandlords

We had to pay a boatload of extra stamp duty, but on the plus side, we have remortgaged the old place, interest only, to finance the new place more cheaply, and we get the rental income too, of course.

The urinal has exceptional views.

I’ll take myself off to the golf club thread

IIRC (and I may not, I was ver ver drunk) there was a bar in Chapel Market with a window above the ladies washbasins where one would be face to face with blokes using the urinals on the other side of the wall (from about waist up, not full frontal).

I don't know if it was mirrored on the other side though.

Purple....Bricks.
You absolute fuck tards.

You insist on having a set of keys, promise the safest method of storage that nothing could go wrong. We're due to exchange and after 3 emails you finally fess up that you can't find our keys. Nice of you to offer to get replacement keys cut, however as the keys are security coded it's not as simple as nipping to Timpsons.
Fucking useless pricks

(Sorry, that was a rant but pissed off with the waste of space that is PB)