Owning your own home

We may be selling our place after all - with a small price reduction - and moving into rental for a bit.
We will have a rather large sum of money (for us) as a result of the sale - where is it best to keep it safe until we need it for a house purchase?

wtf are radon affected areas. is this london only or am I going to go sterile because I'm unknowingly sitting in a radon affected area

edit: lmao have actually never heard of this but just checked and our street is in the 5-10% band. RIP my balls

edit 2: only gives you lung cancer and so will not sterilise my balls. whew, bullet dodged

Some close family had the same deal late last year- after lots of searching they concluded there were no good savings options if you need access in the short/medium term (0.1 or 0.2% interest).

Think they spread it into a few accounts because it felt more secure, but you should be legally protected for up to £1mil by regulations for 12 months after a house sale (above the usual £85k or whatever it is).

We have a daybed with a pull out bed of the same height underneath , so we can set the room up for one person, a couple or two singles. It takes up a bit more floor space than a pull down bed but means if there's just one person sleeping they have a lot more circulation space.

Either under the bed or a bank and if it’s that much split it between various account on different banks.

Thanks - yes it's a FCSC scheme which I hadn't heard about
https://www.fscs.org.uk/how-we-work/claims-process/temporary-high-balances/

First I have heard of it too, house it seems like ventilation is the solution and our house is only somewhat watertight let alone airtight so I probably don't need to worry

I wouldn't worry about the limited space between chimney and bed tbh. Especially for a pull-down one.

How about a sofa bed in the alcove between chimney breast and balcony?

Big monitor on the desk opposite means it also doubles up for spare tv duties.

Last I heard the Principal Registry had a backlog of about 4 months. I doubt the situation has improved since then. It was pretty dire pre-Covid, simply due to inadequate funding and staffing levels.

is this london only

No. Plenty of places built over granite bedrock have radon issues. Dartmoor's particularly bad for radon I believe.

We had radon issues here (down in Devon), when we renovated we had to put down a particular type of membrane and a sump below the membrane which vents externally. However the family had been living here for 100 years beforehand with no issues, so I don't think it is a massive issue, and I think the materials cost us an extra couple of hundred quid to sort out, but can't imagine you would have to do anything retrospectively.

Hmmm. Thanks. It's not looking good is it?

Oh well. Quite likely we'll go and live outside of London for a bit (probably Scottish Borders) so at least we'd be able to get some good riding in.

Question of the day. Handheld hoovers - anyone recommend anything other than the Shark WV200UK at £100?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shark-Cordless-Handheld-Cleaner-WV200UK/dp/B07H5XMVGD/ref=asc_df_B07H5XMVGD/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=294750500521&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13089857646060428726&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046005&hvtargid=pla-529362055179&psc=1&th=1&psc=1

Get them waterproofs bought

For what it's worth, we've just moved in to a house that looks to be round the corner from yours and we're still alive. I think I remember seeing something similar on our survey and just filing it in my brain under 'probably not great, but set to ignore' as there're are always so many more-immediate problems to deal with when conveyancing.

Such as the gaping hole in our roof, which is hopefully venting any errant Radon...

Are there any house-buying-search sites where I can add size of garden as a filter?

I bought the dual battery one on the shark website for £100. love it so far

these are great. fuck james dyson

great, thanks vm. No longer on offer it seems tho.

@swedeee - this is a peace offering. Girlfriend wanted a dyson cordless vac, I put my foot down and said no way were we spending that and kicking a reasonably good Henry out the house.

Being significantly heavier than air, radon will vent downwards.

I'll get my roof fixed then

Not trolling, genuine question: if it's heavier than air why is there a risk of it seeping into people's houses? Wouldn't it just stay in the ground?