Owning your own home

I think that's actually the one we've gone for. Schoolhouse White from F&B

Made an offer on this, still waiting to hear back but in the meantime trying to work out how we could make the space more usable, don't like the main bathroom in the centre of the house and want to create internal access to the garage but ideally not through the kitchen

https://www.hunters.com/property-search/mullucks-rps-muw-swa210161

The garage and kitchen and the main bedroom were an extension that was added without remodelling the rest of the layout so it’s going to be a bit odd. The positions of the bathrooms would have made sense before the extension was added. Big job to fix that now I would have thought and it doesn’t look too awful as is?

Access to the garage through the porch? That way it won’t be sucking heat out of a warmed space in the winter.

It's my first time selling a house - we've had 14 viewings over the past 2 weeks and no offers, should I be worried? I think it's priced realistically, maybe I'm wrong though.

you could move the small toilet in the porch area and that would open lots of space for the living room / access to the garage.
It might not be such a big job ! depending on which direction the water evac runs in the ground

Builder arrived as promised but with a different plasterer who'll be here all week. Plaster the other guy did has blown so they're ripping that down and redoing. But taking it fully back to brick and doing properly. Fingers crossed, again.

Looking to replace kitchen unit (doors only). So something measured to replace.
Any recommendations on companies/services to do this?

I seem to remember some people in this thread doing it a while back.

Its a banger

It'd need to be. 5L is not cheap!

Think the market is going to be funny until the 30th, then people will re-decide what houses are worth (probably no difference).

There are so many stories about the market "cooling" after the 30th at the moment it's mad. I don't see it personally, but then I'm fortunate that I've exchanged and complete on Friday.

I had roughly similar experiences in February and July last year. It was weird how different it felt from the other side - you only hear about the houses that go under offer on the first weekend after sealed bids, but the rest don’t. Took us 20 sets of people viewing to get a decent offer that we ultimately accepted

Presumably if everyone thinks the market is going to do something, its probably already priced in.

I think it price changes have been obvious since the end date for the stamp duty holiday was known.

The stories of a cooling market seem to be written by "everyone" that is prospective buyers, estate agents or clickbait merchants. So personally I think it's bs.

All the local solicitors haven't been taking any new clients for about two months. That can't be helping the movement of market, I don't think that means price falls though.

Would anyone be interested in some radiator valves? Bought some, vetoed after returns period had ended. Untouched x 4. link below, let me know if you would like photos. Paid £45 for them so £25 sound reasonable?

https://www.bestheating.com/milano-windsor-traditional-thermostatic-angled-radiator-valves-chrome-pair-41918

Bid first. View after?

This is exactly what's happening. We had an offer of £25k over asking, unseen, if we'd cancel the remaining viewings on our place. It's insane out there.

So, "the block" damaged my carpets and furniture with their pipe failure and they're paying for the plumbing and maybe the building fixes but are saying furniture damage and carpet repair isn't in insurance? What's that about? Why shouldn't they be paying for ALL the damage their pipe failure caused?

Yeah - seems mental.
We had 30 viewings on our place at the weekend - 10 initial offers apparently, including one 40k over - going to best and final tomorrow....

Insane as there's nothing to stop them viewing then retracting the offer.

I would want to know how they are funding that before accepting. If they need a mortgage, they will need to bridge that themselves as the valuation won't come in a 40k over.

Personally I would be wary of huge offers over, as their intention could be to secure and chip the price down later.

I'd get onto your insurance company. They should be able to chase for damages.

Need to get around to ordering some internal doors soon and have come up against an issue in that the standard size is 1981mm, but the current doors are not all near that (1894-1977).

Anyone overcome this issue?

Yeah - part of the best and finals is for them to submit details about how they will be funding etc. We did get some info when they booked the viewings and there were a number of cash buyers, but am still pretty wary.

I was trying to avoid all that shit.

If my insurance excess is £600 but it's not my fault do I still have to pay the excess?

I'm already dealing with the management company. I just assumed their insurance would pay for all this shit, since it's their crap that broke. Like, if I crashed my car into someone's house, they're not expected to pay for half the damage are they?

Fingers crossed it works out well for you, Bristol certainly seems like the most desirable place in the UK at the moment!

Cash buyers not necessarily the dream you would think, my Neighbour sold to one recently and they were battered on price and then chipped just before exchange for nearly 10k.

There's some kind of rule of first resort, so if you have insurance which covers that you need to claim on your own household policy. They will pay out and then claim against the landlord's insurance.

This was how we got our house refurbed after the next-door mansion block had a big fire and the fire brigade damaged our roof, and soaked the place, and then the mansion block's builders made even more damage. We got furniture, rugs, carpets, wooden flooring, plastering, painting, roof repairs, and a new skylight, all for nowt.