Owning your own home

I have, looks ace! But I got distracted on the loo hose chat haha

I've wondered about this for my own basement, just not sure how you calculate the distance from the walls vs depth in the centre to see if I could get enough height from it.

Noted for when we get around to the window stuff.

It means the weights have to be increased but it's a great upgrade in terms of cutting high pitched noise from the street.

I've only done a few because it pushes the price up a lot with extra lead and the more technical glass being expensive. You also can't use a normal putty as it can seep between the panes and discolour the laminate.

How long are you planning on living there?

First off I have zero engineering / architecture / building design experience whatsoever so take what I'm about to say as absolute pure random stranger on the Internet speculation and the furthest thing from a guide on digging up part of your house you could get.

I think that I've read that the external supporting soil runs around 45°. So as a starting point use that as a guide to the internal. So I'd work out the minimum head height needed. Then mark out where 45° from the edges down to that min height is on the ground.

That gives a rough perimeter to work out whether it's a potential goer.

Obviously before doing any work you'd want some proper advice.

Around 5-6 years I think

Thank you, that seems like a reasonable starting point.

Just been sent this video regarding future heating systems. It is thorough but covers a lot of the stuff discussed already in detail. Maybe best viewed as a radio show! It's the Skillbuilder channel with Roger Bisby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uNKPDREa-Q&ab_channel=SkillBuilder

Not entirely applicable, but when I was looking at taking up old slab to put 120mm insulation and new 100mm slab back in, was told rough guides are: no foundations = start 200mm in from walls, 45­° to depth of 220mm. Shallow foundations = 45° from base to 220mm.

Completing a sale today and have a best and final out today on this place for midday. #prayforrevenant

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/116805488#/?channel=RES_BUY

Lovely looking thing (from the outside). Sorting it out will be 'fun'.
Are you going to replace the garage with an infill house as a tidy little 3k pcm rental?

Fuck yes but fucking hell no

nice one; good luck. My good mate lives just the other side of Wanstead Park near the leisure centre and it's a great location.

Hoping to turn garage into kitchen

cool... we still have original victorian sash & case that are going to need renovating in the net few years...

Hoping to turn garage into kitchen

Where are you going to put your bikes?

I didn’t think our small bathroom have this much stuff to remove!

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Dibs if you split.

Pride of place in the front room!

Good luck mate, looks immense. There's some lovely houses that side of FG. Celebratory beers at the Wanstead tap if all goes well?

Would be way easier to just blitze a hole through wall and position extractor between window surround and that corner of building. If its done well, and a darker/grey coloured outlet is installed it will look tidy and make your window puzzle a lot easier. AFAIK no planning required for domestic bathroom/kitchen ventilation unless frontage is listed somehow. Conservation areas aren't usually bothered about vents.

Only move around I could see is get a short + wide bath, we got a 'carron quantum se carronite' which is shorter than a regular bath, regular external width (700-750mm) but really really useful internal size for showering. Takes an age to fill as its volumetrically massive, has very steep side walls and a large flat area in the bottom. Defo get a 'carronite' or the higher grade of material (from any bath supplier), bloody hate noisey creaky baths.
Could put a bath sideways across where toilet is, decent shower cubicle (get solid glass, bonded onto bath, no nonsense, no leaks), sink move it onto back of that divider wall (either side) and then relocate toilet to where the bath taps are now. Only way I can see of making that space a bit more logical.

When plumbing up a shower, try to get full size (22mm?) pipes of both h+c from boiler to the bathroom, then split down into 15mm to each fitting from there. It 'shouldn't make a difference to the flow rate of the shower, but defo did in our case.

Good luck!
Hate it when they call you again and are like 'we are now taking last, final and bestest offers, if you don't improve your offer won't even bother calling you back' kind of an affair, its like I'm already laying out a lifetimes promise of money (or two lifetimes in most cases now), and you have the cheek to ask for more?
House looks great, kinda an odd layout, not what I'd expect from the front street, sensible sized rooms so shouldn't be a pain to heat, looks nothing wrong with it other than needs brought into this century, epic potential though, and have a huge garden F+R is a nice thing to have. Hope you get it

Thanks all!

Tentatively positive feedback, but apparently they want to get all the family together over the weekend before confirming which offer they are accepeting.

Also pleased to have cleared funds in our account from completing our sale and to see our mortgage balance at zero! Having accepted an offer in March, I wasn't sure we would ever see this day.

Is it a sale from a deceased estate? Seen so many the last year or so, where its clear that all their belongings are still in the house pretty much 'as left'. Saw on that agents website there was another similar style of house (with epic collection of antique tat!) in similar area that was just that, literally everything just how it was.
Crap maybe beginning to enter mid life, time to buy a sports car....