Owning your own home

Cheers, will pass it on

IF it goes smoothly.

I'm trying to convince the other half to move to this place but she's having none of it as "it's too far away".

Direct sleeper service from Helensburgh Upper to London Euston makes this claim nonsense.

Would you kayak of open water swim each morning?

Fantastic garden. Bit too near the caravan park though.

You'll be outbid by Russians whose hobby is submarine spotting.

Beautiful place though.

Helensburgh... Check the annual rainfall there. It is crazy.

It is pretty normal for west coast Scotland.

Ftfy

Lol.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-climate-averages/gcuws6cv8

Helensburgh is wetter than Glasgow, which is already the wettest city in Scotland.

In the height of Summer it will rain a third of the time, in Winter a minimum of two thirds of the time.

Love the place, but wouldn't live there.

As the big yin once said

https://youtu.be/PsyXin4eiSY

Also when its not wet it's prone to being pretty fucking windy. For large parts of the summer if its not raining or windy you'll probably need to go outside wearing a midge net. But if none of these things are occuring good weather will be so glorious just seeing it and the scenery will make you happy just to be alive.

It's almost like there's a reason the house prices are so much lower.

Don't get me wrong I'd move to the west coast in a heartbeat if my wife could find a way of making it work at her work.

hugo pls

I lived there for 12 years, I know the weather trade offs.

I have done that swim, but I'd probably cycle.

cycling round there is glorious - whole of argyll is a wonderland for cycling really

Only seen it happen twice in 15 years + of being involved with older buildings. Both times much more could have been saved (proper stone/ashlar) of the original and new built up to the back of this, but instead basically papier mache or very basic masonry work replaced fine work.

Councils either actually powerless, don't want to ruin their brother in laws contractor firm profit margin or just apathetic about it.

There are some good examples of rebuild rules being used and done pretty well though, rare but they are out there!

Oh yeah that cycling lark! :P

Pff - the midges stop the rain from actually hitting you

You'll spend your whole time in the DIY thread asking how to put shelves onto a curved wall

Steam bending timber is an art and possibly not a DIY project.

Just leave them outside - the damp will take care of it

Is there anywhere I can see historic wayleave agreements relating to phone lines crossing my property? Tbh it's something I'd never though about until I was considering installing a fire pit in my new patio and realised I probably can't because there's a phone line 5m over the only spot it can be.

If I did go ahead and the cable gets damaged would I be liable? I can see lots of stuff about trees and phone lines, less about lighting fires under them. It wouldn't be the end of the world if it can't happen but it got me wondering whether I'm owed a historic wayleave fee as apparently that can take the form of a yearly payment, though not sure if that would apply to subsequent owners.

Is there anywhere I can see historic wayleave agreements relating to phone lines crossing my property?

So the freeholder of the building should provide that wayleaf permission to the telecoms company who installed the line. As the freeholder you should have a copy of that agreement in your paperwork. If you don't, then you might try with the telecoms company as they must store a copy of that to prove it has permission to install.

Please note I understand this from a telco perspective, not from a legal one, so there may be gaps in this advice, but the facts as I've related them are as correct from our side.

Cheers, I'll send an email to openreach to see if they'll send me any details. It wasn't mentioned in the conveyancing and I didn't think to ask until now. I'm still hazy on who's liable if they're damaged over my property. Obviously I'm not going to try and burn down my neighbor's phone line but a tree that sits on another neighbor's land and half overhangs our garden was leaning very heavily on another line last year, tree has been pruned back now.

Edit seems like they wouldn't need permission after all.