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I'm getting more and more jealous of your house.
Obviously I'll wait till you've got rid of the last of the nicotine stains and the fireplace, but then can we swap?
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So you're happy with the exterior render work, the £6k door restoration, the two new bathrooms, the replastering of 80% of the rooms, the wonky floor and ceiling in the back bedroom that makes you sea sick, the fox that keeps shitting in the front yard, the new kitchen and whatever else needs doing? Sure!
stevo_com
The brook was a pain in the dick when buying though. The flood risk map shows it coming into the garden by a couple of feet at the worst projections. But there's 6 ft of culvert before then. And on the other, lower bank, it has the whole rec to flood first. Then even after the rec (and most of Croydon) floods, there's another 10 or so feet vertical and 70 feet horizontal to get to the house. And we don't have a basement. The solicitors sent the report off to a specialist and he basically told them to wind their neck in, it's fine.
Also, there are (currently on hold, due to Croydon having no money) plans to rewild the brook, removing the culvert and turning it back into a river in the open parkland areas and reducing flood risk even further. Which would be cool. As it is, mini_com loves going to the park (walk around about 20 houses), crossing the river then walking along it. My neighbour runs the Friends of Thornton Heath Rec and the community garden, also organises the brook clean ups in the summer so looking forward to getting involved with that. Nice to have a link to the Wandle in the back garden.