Owning your own home

Could it be condensation?! It’s a high ceiling and quite open to other rooms/rest of house but there’s no real extraction.

In the room itself or coming up through the floor? That area does look under ventilated; caping the chimney off will have closed off an escape route (is it a ventilated cap or not?) and the air bricks are a good distance away for the sub floor, especially if that is a bit of solid flooring at the front.

Any moth issues?

There is a theory you should be spending 1% of the value of your home on maintenance each year just to stay still.

Well, fuck.

Spent 3% this year already. Hopefully next year will be less wallet and morale crushing.

At least you knew you were buying a shitter. Most of the costs in mine were hidden.

If there are, they're hidden under the floor the other side of the vapour barrier

Cap is ventilated but the fireplace is covered over/sealed behind the sink (hence wanting to cap it)!
I thought maybe it was an accumulation of small damp sources finding the lowest point but what’s a bit weird is that some of the fucked plaster is on a single skin brick wall which is fine on the other side.

Slowly disappearing your insulation?

I thought Scotland was the best place ever? Much better than hated London

It’s not just the money, living in an endless state of Work is irritating.
As soon as I put all the tools, ladders, etc away I have to get them out again.

Potentially. Checking would be tricky - there's not really even enough space to crawl under there

yes this is the good and correct opinion - it's so heartwarming to witness you grow as a person like this. pls take notes, user christopher bicycle motocross one hundred and sixteen

good project for user dammit here
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/116047325#/?channel=RES_BUY

Wowsers

Completed! Estate agent office is 5m walk away but that's too far so they left them in a key safe for me lol

2 sets of keys for a place that was rented out by 2 individual people. They must have had 2 sets plus the owners (in France) plus the managing agent ...
Lock change on the to do list

Lock change on the to do list

Yes, and don't post pictures of the new keys.

(It's quite easy to get keys cut based on info you can pick up from photos.)

Not perfect, but it was cheap.

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Such a difference from when you bought it. Porch looks ace.

Garden wall next?

Wall and path, yes. "Next" is a relative term. I would say there's a to do list, but it's more of a word cloud....

@ColinTheBald has already scoped the path and wall work somewhat so going on his availability (and my money) I might look to do that in the spring.

Looks great. Does the roof ridge(?) render need painting?

oh and a new door matt with LLL slogan pls.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/113214293#/?channel=RES_NEW

£1m+ 58 sq m Studio flat in Battersea Power Station.

Bargain.

I've started getting IG ads for a Catford-based pebbledash removal company. I don't even live in London, so I can only assume that they've set the audience up based on visitors to this thread

Not to be too negative, but that gable end doesnt look finished to me. IANAR.

Ah I have serious door and porch envy