Owning your own home

Terrific!

I have this exact door and need to do this job myself. Looks great.

Decent price for that lot

What a relief, best possible outcome you could hope for, sale should be straight forward as a buyer won't even have to worry about any particular lender now you can supply an A2 form.

Are you in a chain? If so I’d ask them nicely and explain the situation and that they arrange the transfer of the extra £1k.

If they aren’t forthcoming then you can choose your level of arsehole behaviour to expedite them sending you the money but there still plenty of time to sort it

Also nice one from your conveyancer - leave them a stinking trustpilot (as many as you can husband/wife/child etc)

^ bombing someone’s TP account is high grade Karen behaviour but also highly effective

I have some exactly the same recently, I hunk it’s in another thread.

Yup! The balconies proved the biggest issue due to the composite wood decking but they deemed it not much of a risk due to concrete and fire breaks inbetween. They're the reason it's an A2 rather than A1. Luckily the panneling on the top floor is some kind of compressed concrete so not combustable and the insulation is mineral wool so also non-combustable.

Re the changing the trvs- you know the top of them just unscrews right, and you can replace the trv head and leave the valve as it is?

That's no use to you if the valve is stuck i appreciate but if the pin in the trv is stuck or broken and you can't turn the rad up or down,you can just buy the replacement trv head from screwfix or whatever and replace it yourself without getting wet.

Yes, I know. I explained it before but not sure if it was this thread. I have Tado smart sensing heads. The TRVs (the actual valves) are a model that needs an adaptor for the Tado sensing head to screw onto. So I want to replace with a model that doesn't need an adaptor (a Drayton RT212 with an M30 x 1.5 thread). Plus, the bedroom one is leaking a drop or two of water every time the plunger/pin is actuated.

Eventually all the TRVs in the house will be replaced. But the leaking one is a priority and the other two on that floor don't have rads connected (plastering/decorating those rooms), so I'm taking advantage of A) not having to bleed those radiators, and B) the system being drained down past that point to deal with the leaky one anyway, to get all three changed.

no chain, the only ones to get screwed our ourselves by missing stamp duty

Is there an obvious test for this that a user can do?

Not that I am aware of. We had a sparky come in to look at the whole thing - it was only when doing a fuller inspection that he caught it. It didn't seem to affect anything day to day, but any surge would have killed all the things in our house!

One sparky tested our electrics and said there was no earth on our upstairs lighting main and suggested rewiring the lot for £££
We asked a different sparky and he said it's not uncommon for there to be no earth on older properties and with the correct compliant lights (for bathroom) you wouldn't even need to rewire anyway.
We then got him to put in a new RCD and when he checked the upstairs main he found it was earthed after all...

So the sellers are chain free?

yeah, they rented the place out before and it's currently empty

We didn't have an earth either, power board did it for free

Isn't Low Hall sports ground in the middle of a load of factories and the council tip? I'm opposed to secret cinema as a concept but it does seem like a pretty out of the way location

Oh that was a fortnight ago

I wouldn't mind if it was say three nights a week for two months or something, but they're proposing 5000 people, six nights a week, for three months (the whole of summer).

Oh yeah to be fair that is mental, I thought SS things were a one off, or a few days max

Drayton RT212

You know that you can get valves from Wickes / other plumbing places without the head on?

M30 x 1.5 is pretty standard these days too.

I did not, but as I was buying a load of other stuff from Toolstation I'm comfortable with that being a lesson learned. Plus, two of the Tado units got fucked by the plasterers so I'll need at least two of the sensing heads until I can be arsed to source replacements (at the plasterers cost).

I was so done with the heads popping off all the time, that I took one around Wickes and tried all the screwing in things.

I know those feels. A toddler and a clumsy wife mean I'm refitting them more times than I would like. Mine need that stupid adaptor with a screw on both sides. Which you think would clamp onto the existing TRV well, but no. It's also big and bulky.

It took me ages to discover the best way to refit the heads back on too.

But yeah, fuck those things.