Owning your own home

Breach of contract unless listed on the fixtures and fittings. Unleash your lawyer.

Does her aunt's cat like fish?

Cat should meet fish - at least the issues would be partially solved.

Shit our sellers left:

• rubbish
  
• Food entombed in a frosted freezer
  
• Battered chest of drawers in the shed
  
• Less battered side board thing
  
• Ash in the fireplace
  
• Packs of good quality workman face masks
  
• Random bits of engineered wood
  
• Extension leads
  
• Fucked Christmas tree
  
• Several fucked paddling pools
  
• Fucked lawnmower
  
• Fucked lawn hoover thing
  
• Fucked water softener
  
• Boxes of books left outside so full of water. Pulp basically
  
• Brambles
  
  

I’d have swapped that lot for fish or a cat

That was RPM

Fish or a cat would require only a single tip visit

I know it was covered recently, but is there any come-back if the dishwasher in our new place appears to have a faulty heating element. Runs but doesn't seem to get hot or dry the plates.

It's been 8 days since completion, only just worked it out. Hopefully just a repair, but if not it's another £250 I would prefer not to have to spend.

Nope, sorry. I mean if they said it was working you could technically go after them for misrepresentation, but good luck with that.

Thanks for the congrats everyone. @chrisbmx116 I'll hit you up at some point soon, so much to do and I woke up feeling knackered this morning and seem to have suddenly lost all motivation.

@villa-ru I already knew about most of it, but of course actually getting in has given me some fun surprises, especially as it's a probate place which has been empty for a few years.

Personal highlight so far is that the reason the downstairs loo we're going to demolish smells of poo is there's a big hole in the poo pipe, behind the U-bend...

Fish and a cat wouldn't even need a tip visit - feed fish to cat, release cat, profit.

That’s fine.

Anyone want a bunch of used moving and other misc boxes (3 bed pack costing £65) message me. E5.

i think i’ve done 8? nissan micra trips to the tip just for stuff left by our sellers, and we will have 30l of unusable paint the tip won’t take

Shredder chat but this looks like a Bosch copy from Aldi:

https://www.aldi.co.uk/ferrex-impact-shredder-mulcher/p/805016450217200

If only buying from Aldi wasnt such a pain in the butt

Good spot. I found that if I stick mine on top of the picnic table, it's the perfect height to shred straight into the garden waste wheelie bin. Although, my bin was emptied yesterday and I immediately filled it again with stuff already shredded. So I've now got a full bin to be emptied in two weeks and two full tonne bags. I've ordered another two tonne bags from Toolstation as I cleared another big patch yesterday which is waiting to be shredded with nowhere to put the shreddings.

Also ordered the fence panels for the far end. So next focus will be clearing the area for digging post holes and fence erection. Not looking forward to that as the previous owners just dumped all their garden waste there.

Not great for fish or cats

If you were going to work in Winchester, where would you live?

Ooh, can I play?

Shit our 90 year old sellers left

No kitchen, apart from a sink and a built-in cupboard. But that's normal for France.
Two ugly 1000 litre water cubes, both full, both with broken taps.
A pigeon shed, made of scrap metal, wood and asbestos sheets, in the nicest bit of the garden. I have torn this down and will be building a summer kitchen there instead.
A broken rusty freezer, in the pigeon shed
A whole quarter of the garden given over to breeding rabbits for food. So much scrap iron, metal fences, and chicken wire buried a meter into the ground.
An abandoned corner of the house that had no electricity or heating and had the door literally concreted closed. Ironically, it's the nicest corner of the house and gets the morning sun. I am going to put my office in the upstairs room.
Instructions that the condemned fireplace was good to use, and the perfectly fine one was dangerous and shouldn't be used.
An axe
2 antique fishing rods
3 broken shovels and a manure fork
a roof rack for (I believe) a Renault 4 or a Simca 1100
A whole winter's worth of firewood in the cellar, which had caused...
A huge woodworm infestation that cost us 5 grand to sort. We currently have dead beetles falling out of the beams (which I suppose is a lot better than live ones).
4 random wheels and 7 old car tyres
2 formica and chipboard cupboards
2 5 kilo bags of mysterious chemicals.
Asbestos panels used as wainscoting in the hallway.
A false floor with 60s Vinyl tiles (containing more asbestos) on the upstairs landing, underneath which is an original medieval wooden floor in mystery condition.
two PVC and chrome 70s chairs, in poor condition, and a woodworm-eaten stool.
Horrible wallpaper from the 60s and the 80s
Brown. So much brown. Everywhere.
A billionty nettles in the garden.

wot, no cork tiles ?

Jesus. Hope they paid you to take that place off their hands!

The People's Democratic Republic of Petersfield

Budget / school encatchment dependent but:

Rural living: anywhere around Winchester, but pretty expensive.
Shawford, Hursley etc.

‘Culture’ and town life: central winchester

Value for money but close: Eastleigh (7 minute train, 25 minute cycle)

I live in Eastleigh myself, so happy to give a few pointers in areas around Winchester if you’d like.

Nice cycle from Petersfield to Winchester. When not bodging speeding motorbikes and Range Rovers.

Post of the day.

Shit our 90 year old sellers left

No kitchen, apart from a sink and a built-in cupboard. But that's normal for France.

But did they have a kitchen while they lived there or did they cook everything in the fireplace?

(I assume they took it with them like people do in Germany?)

And we won't be impressed unless they also left you a stack of square plates.

An abandoned corner of the house that had no electricity or heating and had the door literally concreted closed. Ironically, it's the nicest corner of the house and gets the morning sun. I am going to put my office in the upstairs room.

Probably best you never think about what happened in there.