Owning your own home

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Yes! Go for a unvented mega flow style system. We're on day 2 of installation of having one installed here. Too soon to tell but hopefully enough hot water for everyone.
It is all about the pressure though.

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I wish the installer of ours had been as neat as yours!

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Hah yeah mine is a shambles too

This is our current setup... :)
Outside and the flue is pointed back towards the house. Mice have made away with the majority of pipe lagging.

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Is there an appliances thread? Looking for a tumble dryer...

Beautiful pipe work there.

Exploring the wild bit at the end of the garden. First time I've measured it. Roughly 28' x 17' of wilderness. The whole garden tapers slightly. It's 23' wide up by the house and the cleared lawn is 55' long. Big old unit.

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They’ll be wanting speed

This is not my experience of a probate sale 🤦

Or Dov's.

Garden archaeology.

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Anyone would think you had an IG plumbfluencer doing the work...

Lovely! Get a mirror cut and installed behind it and flog it for hipster money?

Edit: the garden gate, not the wheelbarrow...

For the end of the garden, I need a new fence. There just isn't one. The only thing stopping us from falling in the brook, or ne'erdowells from climbing in is a load of rubbish. One neighbour has wooden panels/concrete posts. The other has the same low metal railing you see up the side of our garden. Once cleared, I'm thinking of a halfway house of concrete posts, solid wooden panels up to 2/3 height then trellis for the top 1/3.

https://www.diy.com/departments/premier-lap-pressure-treated-fence-panel-w-1-83m-h-1-22m-pack-of-3/5013053153178_BQ.prd

https://www.diy.com/departments/pressure-treated-trellis-panel-w-0-6m-h-1-8m/3663602430278_BQ.prd

More for privacy/stopping unexpected toddler swimming than outright security. As if someone wants in, they'll get in.

Is this mad?

Makes sense to me, having to fish your daughter out of the brook sounds annoying.

We went to see the 60's place today - someone had made an offer of £830,000 earlier that day which we were told was going to be accepted this evening if no other bids were forthcoming.

That rules me out as I'd want a survey and so forth, but interesting to see how fast people are moving.

I liked the house, good size, has what I'd like in terms of potential - but would refurbishing from top to bottom, including a little of the external woodwork which was rotten.

It had a lot of original features, including of course the cork tiles that BQ is such a fan of, and I'd likely bring back what I think would suit from the period the house was built in - which does of course introduce it's own challenges as you can't go to Wickes and ask for a teak mid-century modern kitchen.

Still, interesting to go and look at it.

You might like pymers mead / lings coppice in Herne Hill then. Dulwich estate almost went bust in the 50s and loads were built in that span style or similar

That rules me out as I'd want a survey and so forth

You know the Offer is made subject to survey, etc, etc?
I'm not saying make the offer, but that isn't a reason for preventing you making one.
Doing one on a single visit- however, madness.

Yes, this. Also, if you want it, make the offer then demand a second viewing as soon as it's accepted. Then decide whether it's worth investing in a survey.

having to fish your daughter out of the brook sounds annoying.

This sounds like a quirky, Saturday afternoon kids movie type hullabaloo. In reality it's a 10 foot drop into a concrete culvert. Definitely something to avoid, just weighing up the various options as to how.

Yeah but in this case it looks like the deceased owners had it from new - and that means that people just see the £$€¥ - and I guess why they accepted that offer under asking price when it’s not been on the market for long.

Fun fact of the day - Japan builds more than 1 million new houses per year. Second only to the US.

Both build predominantly in wood right?
Decent system but the big bad wolf can get them. Not like our brick houses.

I'm sure that I'm horribly naive about how these things work, but also I would expect that if I bid 840 then the current 830 bidder would raise, and then who knows where it'd end up.

I'd be looking at a mortgage of around £2,600 at 850, which is a fair old rise from the £250 I pay today, and I'd not really want it to go much past that or it'd present a problem in terms of the works required to update the place.

I also don't like feeling rushed into things.

@dov Just reading a report for work on it - will share later. Japan - partly cultural and geographical specific- earthquakes and fires and houses having a short life span and slightly more consumable than here - 20 years on average. Tax breaks make house building more affordable and there’s over 80,000 small independent house building companies.

You don’t know until you make an offer - which isn’t binding. There are more of those houses but I’ve not seen a corner plot, 2 Porsche garage one recently.

Is your current property on the market/under offer?