Owning your own home

Literally the first thing you've had go wrong during the renovation.

At least your range is total #swag

Gorgeous

Kitchen looks ace but... ouch.

At least you're getting all the bad luck out of the way before you move in!!

Tis but a scratch.

Kitchen looks good tho

That looks fantastic! Apart from the icy road surface, obvs... Good luck!

Just did a gag... 🤢

Got it cleaned up last night at the hospital and took a tetanus jab.

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Now you can clap for NHS!

Not too hard though. Don't want to burst teh stitches.

Yeah you can’t park there, you can’t just annexe bordering land. You’ll have to pay the fine.

Noticed damp on the walls chimney stack in the upstairs bedroom. Checked out the stack in the loft and it's pretty wet with some bricks extremely soft. I assume there has been water ingress from failed flashing and degraded pointing.

Will these bricks htfu again over time or do they need replacing? The damp has also affects an adjacent rafter. What type of tradesperson do I need to contact, or is this a job for multiple people? Would a roofer be able to replace brickwork or remove the stack if I wanted it gone?

Idk for sure but bricks are porous so I think once the source of moisture is removed the bricks will dry out (given the right weather).

@Fox just had Thames round, the issue is in the house... le sigh... more specifically under the front garden path with no way to access it. le sigh deux.

As in there's a leak in the pipe? Or something else?

@Tenderloin When I first nosed at your place on Streetview I wondered about the double yellow line parking situation. I presume it's there because the council deemed the road too narrow with someone parked there?

Can you fit your car in your garage? I'd love to have a garage but I know old garages weren't built with modern wide cars in mind, so you might be able to drive it in but not open the doors...

Alternatively, sell it and buy a Fiat 500? :)

Ah. Look on the bright side - that's easier to fix than general low pressure in the area.

It could just be that your pipe is too narrow. Ours was but we could fix it easily because we've got a cellar.

There is a way to access it!

You could fit an anti-poo flood valve while you have everything up ;)

honda E surely

I very much doubt its a leak, as it would be leaking into the front garden.
Basically, mains pressure is fine, plumbing inside the house is great (new).
The only bit left to fail is the 3m of front garden path that connects the mains to the house.
I'm going to go nuclear, if I can double my water pressure it's worth, err, a good chunk of money.

I haven't seen one IRL but apparently they're actually pretty big!

I was thinking OLD Fiat 500, to be clear. Robin Reliant would work too.

You have a cellar?!?! How deep? We have 1.5m of drop under our downstairs... will ask about anti poo devices too.

Our surveyor is going to thoroughly check our pressure tomorrow because (in my words) "The property is fitted with two electric showers, and having spoken to homeowners in the local area I suspect this may be due to low water pressure." lol.

To be fair he's getting paid a bag of sand for a few hours work so I'm not going to worry unduly about that!

Current place! Sorry, I wrote that confusingly.

I'm fairly sure given the ease with which surface water flooding occurs in Coppermill (I'm fairly sure that's what it was on the streets we were talking about, despite the Environment Agency saying it was fluvial) that if you had a cellar in Coppermill it would also function as a swimming pool...

There is a way to access it!

With a verge trimmer?

Want.