Owning your own home

Nope, they do not appear to have undertaken intrusive works as part of the survey. Seems wild to me, as there could be all manner of nasties hiding under the floor.

I feel I called this one correctly and offered appropriately with the right allowance for independent surveys. I still offered substantially over the mortgage valuation.

Unfortunately the closing date has just passed and I have found myself outbid by a massive margin. Oh well - someone else's concern now. I'm sad that I won't be able to take on the task of repairing and caring for this particular historic building.

The built-in looked good!! RIP.

If mould, badly fitted MDF and poorly varnished pine is your bag, then I suppose so.

You've nailed the three main features of my house. (Not really, there's only a tiny bit of mould in the kitchen.)

It's somehow been six months since we moved in and in that time we have:

1. Ripped up the carpets
   
2. Had whole house re-wired (guy missed like 4 outlets)
   
3. Nothing else, we still haven't even unpacked any boxes
   
   

The anniversary prompted a sudden flurry of activity and we paid a plasterer to patch up after the electrician. He did an amazingly shit job and the walls now have all sorts of intriguing curves and bulges. Thought about quibbling but too English, so just paid and then painted over it in a zesty green which actually does distract very well from the artisan texturing.

Bolstered by my painting success, I am now firmly back on the home renovation train. Our house has no hallway, and not only does the front door open into the living room, it also opens directly onto the stairs. Does anyone else have this set-up? I need #designinspiration.

I'm simply going to point out that reasonable skill and care has not been taken in the work and I expect a reskim(?) and skirting etc refitted at no extra cost. I'll be withholding 10% of contract price until then. No issues there, right? Would a reskim (by a different plasterer...) be helpful at all?

Any update on this? @allsop

sellers estate agents were quick to suggest a company to do the injections who did their own survey and quoted for the work

That’s a red flag if ever there was one :D

It's called Kays tørrestativ, the 80yo inventor went on the Danish dragon's den and it's been really popular since.

Unfortunately upon checking online they don't seem to have bothered with a website so who knows about international distro.

"Inkl. rustfri skruer, gummiringe og rawplugs."

I'm assuming gummiringe are rubber washers?

Yes

thank you for volunteering to coordinate the group buy. I'll take two please

1. cozey
   
2. amey
   

Shipping could be expensive but I'd do it for a portion of chips and a Faxe Kondi.

Do you have somesort of draught proofing on the stops of your door frame?

Yeah. Like a rubberised pad thing

My gf and I are in the process of buying a flat in Peckham. We had a relative who is a surveyor look at it recently for his opinion.

He advised against buying it and he said his primary reason for doing so is because there is housing association flats next door and that this could make it difficult to sell in the future/neighbours could be difficult.

It’s not something we’d even considered or thought would be a problem. The most we’d noticed was that the communal garden for the HA flats is a bit untidy, but tbh it didn’t bother us.

Is my relative right that HA flats as neighbours would put off future buyers or is he just being a bit of a snob?

Is my relative right that HA flats as neighbours would put off future buyers or is he just being a bit of a snob?

Sadly, he's not wrong. We're struggling to sell ours at the moment for vaguely similar reasons.
People are snobs.

It depends on the flats, the residents, and the HA.
I lived in a HA block for 19 years and all but one (a renter) of my neighbours over that time were lovely. If they are shared ownership then the residents will probably take some pride in the place. If it's all rented there are no guarantees.
HAs are only interested in building and selling flats, not in being decent landlords or doing maintenance, so that probably explains the communal garden.
As for the flats themselves, if the place you're looking at is noticeably nicer than the HA block then it may become a target of crime. We had this in Bethnal Green for the first few years until the next new thing was built, and our friends in Canning Town had a real problem as they had bought in a new build block in the middle of a 50s council estate, and people got mugged or robbed all the time apparently.

is he just being a bit of a snob?

not necessarily

but

People are snobs.

exactly this

Is your flat cheap?

Might be priced in already

He advised against buying it and he said his primary reason for doing so is because there is housing association flats next door and that this could make it difficult to sell in the future/neighbours could be difficult.

Primary reason. What were the secondary reasons?

Can you say whereabouts in Peckham?
There’s good bits and bad bits.
It’s a really popular place live at the moment though.

@brockwell_local Bristol not London but I put an offer at pretty much asking price on this (https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property/79075989) which was 2 doors down from these flats. Flats looked well maintained but would rather not have them there, mainly due to parking or if they got converted into student flats. House went 30k plus over asking had a shit load of offers

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^ used to live in an ex council flat in Sheffield and had the odd ped ride past the front door in the early hours (was 20m back from the road), worlds apart from the these flats which looked nice

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Should we buy this and have the ground floor as my workshop, first floor loft living?

Yes, yes of course we should.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/commercial-property-for-sale/property-89489536.html

Or on a more reasonable budget

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/commercial-property-for-sale/property-77412258.html

have friends trying to buy in Easton atm. prices are rising so fast! crazy as it was (still is a bit) quite stabby

also wtf is with that trip hazard between the patio and the grass? love what they have done with the garden though