Owning your own home

I didn't think they could force you from the variable tariff? Perhaps raise it as a complaint on a call

not forcing, its cheaper to stay as we are, but surely the variable tariffs are just going to go insane with the rises?

2 blokes for 6 hours (i.e a day) for £400 is very cheap no?

there's a thread for this issue here

Might be worthwhile asking there - think a lot of us are in the same position - need to have a look myself

Everyone else must have very little stuff!

Bloody hell, builder's/plumbing merchants and bathroom supply shops really do not like using email!

6 requests for quotes sent over a week, including detailed breakdowns and product codes and not a single reply. This is after popping into 3 and calling 1 "sure, send us an email and we'll get a quote out quickly" eye rolls

surely the variable tariffs are just going to go insane with the rises

Just like mortgages, that's already priced into the fixed tariff. You could roll the dice, hope that things aren't as bad as forecast and stick on the variable one...

Cheers - looks great! We've gone for these in various sizes - https://www.traderadiators.com/nordic-4-column-radiator-raw-metal-600mm-x-1239mm.

We had a discussion with the guy who is fitting them about the risks/longevity of steel and whether there were any go-to or avoid brands, but decided in the end since spending more is still a pig in a poke quality-wise and as long as we keep to the same sizes replacement is a DIY job, going for an average price and accept possibly replacing in future is no worse then spending the cost of a radiator and a future replacement on a supposedly better quality rad and keeping our fingers crossed.

/crosses fingers anyway

Bloody hell, builder's/plumbing merchants and bathroom supply shops really do not like using email!

Left me fucked several way from Sunday not being able to use thr phone.

One plumbing company were excellent so far are AS plumbing, actually respond. Quoted and sorted in 48 hours.

My poor partner end up being the one who deal with the rest of them.

Pegglers were good to deal with (I didn’t use them in the end but wish I had and will for when we move out in summer) @tbc has used them and recommended

Cheerz

We used L&T who were amazing. They were an in the know Walthamstow recommendation and I can't recommend them enough, honestly.
https://www.ltremovals.com/

We moved from a very full 1 bed with cellar in Clapton to a house in Walthamstow. It was going to be £300 but we exchanged at 5pm (majorly stressful) so we had to pay them a bit extra for all the time they spent waiting around (quite rightly, they went home at 7) but I think it came to just over £400 in the end.

The whole team were great to deal with and they didn't damage one single thing - not even a plant! I hate people damaging my things so found this very pleasing.

They mostly seem to move people into our out of E17 but I don't know their exact area.

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But would make a great flipper for TMH...

You could even keep the dining table and sideboard!

Our flat have gone down In value according to Zoopla (!).

Didn’t account for any changes we made to it tho.

Do those Zoopla figures actually mean anything? They’ve always be wildly off when I’ve looked

Mine's gone up, so I believe they're highly accurate

Hehe
What’s more, the mortgage companies seem to believe it so you get credit at refi time

Same here, though it's currently got OSB instead of two windows so ...

No they are just a low tech calc of recently exchanged sales, vs number that come up for sale, asking price vs. actual*

*Which in Scotland is always way off, more so since C19 hit

Good to here. I often recommend folk don't take the cheapest, but the most they can afford then add another £100 on = much less risk of damage seen as the folks can actually do the job in the required time (always longer than expected), still earn a living, not feel stressed, therego do a better job. Or just pocket the extra money. Don't think personally ever had a moving company, just borrow/hire vans/pay mates in cake and beer to shift the bigger stuff.

And they used to be incredibly easily manipulated.

You could add in that your house had just sold for 'valuation + £100k' and Zoopla would thank you for your info and amend their valuation up by about £85k

A month later when the land reg docs showed it hadn't sold then it'd jump back down.

They've removed that recently.

I know you get what you pay for in life.

But one bloke my wife arranged to give us a removal quote this morning (not anyone recommended here) turned up in a 50k audi, and my hackles were immediately raised.

As expected the 2k quote (moving only no packing or dismantling) landed a couple of hours later , but I thought the first rule of turning up to give a quote, especially when your clients are at a very money sensitive stage of their lives (moving house) is turn up in a motor good enough to give the impression you know what you're doing and not a chancer but not Flash enough that cheap gits like me immediately start smelling a rat that one is getting weighed up.

We paid around 2k moving South London to Kent. Full packing with two guys day one, 18t Pantechnicon (that our 1 bed flat filled to the brim) with 4 guys (they actually sent 5) the next day to move.

My neighbour in a much larger flat managed to move in a small van :/

We could have probably got cheaper, but we had around 100 plants to move, and my Wife collects glassware so wanted a full packing service. Few plants got damaged, but nothing else broken or damaged.

I did get a quote from a firm at the end we were moving too, and they wanted 3k so that definitely felt like we were weighed up, I declined to negotiate with them as a result.

We had a Foxtons guy over to talk about selling our flat and he was reassuring us how easy it would be to sell for well above what we are hoping for, while flashing a very shiny Rolex Sub.

Coles are good, but they might not do your ends

https://www.colesremovals.co.uk/