Owning your own home

My next door neighbour still boils a kettle on the hob, a proper old fashioned whistling one.

We do this. I had a habit of boiling the kettle, wandering off, forgetting about it and having to boil again as I like my hot drinks scalding hot. Have a stovetop means I have to pay attention and it only gets boiled once 🙂

This is what I do. For better or worse.

Kettle wasn't £200+

As this is LFGSS I feel that I have to drop the official style guide:

Artisanal Japanese stove top kettle/pot ( ideally crafted by out of work samurai sword makers)> electric kettle > Qwooker/Zipp tap abomination - this isn’t a fucking office Tea Point, it’s the kitchen in your home.

Very similar. I think normal kettle may be fractionally more efficient but not much in it.

@Soul how is the moat coming along?

Ha. I’ve not started it yet. Still waiting for electrical engineers to verify the drawings.

Sounds like there's an opportunity for Chris King here.
Or an NJS quooker

We saw a few more houses on Saturday, put an offer at asking on one of them and just had it accepted. So much nicer dealing with a small estate agency, my partner called up today and dispite not speaking to her before and she remembered our names and situation.

Congrats!

Here's the details for the rubberneckers. Obviously it needs redecorating inside but we really like the layout with the space for a bench in the kitchen and 2 sets of doors to the back garden. It wasn't exactly sunny when we visited and there was loads of light coming through and there's an integral garage that's already insulated which will be storage and eventually converted in to a bed room with en suite for guests. The ceilings look much lower in the photos than they really are. The compromises for me are it's more suburban than I would ideally have and the garden is looked over from a few sides but the area's really quiet and a 10 min walk to the train station.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/85344372

looking forward to the house reno insta!

😬 She hasn't mentioned it but my other half is definitely going to make one

@our_manchventure_at_number3

Looks great!
The Tetris blocks on the walls is interesting...

Greater Manchester

Never heard of this London suburb before

yeah it's a bit of a commute

Stove top whistling kettles on an electric induction hobs is a thing.

it is. we have a le creuset one #humblebrag

just works well for us and means we dont have to have some ugly plastic one plugged into the wall. handy because we can move the kettle out of the way easily if we need more counter space

my grandparents have a quooker. i actually really like it

congrats! that is a lot of house for the money

Bit too close to @snottyotter for my liking

We completed on Friday (yay) and have spent the weekend stripping wallpaper, which has revealed significant cracking and damp problems in a bay window. Looking outside the problem is obvious, and I think it should have been picked up by our level 3 survey. The survey was organised via our lender (Nationwide) as part of the mortgage process. Anyone have any experience with claiming back off a surveyor's insurance?

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2 whole miles from me. Nice little ride down the fallowfield loop to say hello at Station South if I'm working.

Pffft, call that a brick fireplace? You'll only have 2 or 3 ghosts in there, max.

Congrats!

We just exchanged today - after all manner of fuckery from our seller, holding up exchange for the best part of two weeks, then coming out today moaning that completion wasn’t soon enough and threatening to put the house back on the market if exchange didn’t happen that day. (After both us and our buyer having been ready to exchange since the start of the month.)
Got the classic “our client has instructed us to say….” email from the other parties solicitors, so think even they were sick of it by the end.

Was so much nicer going through the process having done it once already, and knowing we were already in a place we like, so just telling him roundly to get back in his box and do the needful if he wanted to complete.

Shoutout our first time buyer as well who has had the patience of a saint despite getting nervy towards the end.

The survey was organised via our lender (Nationwide) as part of the mortgage process.

No help to you, but we had the same level 3 through nationwide. We weren't happy with it so got a seperate structural survey and got the seller to pay. The structural surveyor didnt hold back about the lack of quality in nationwides report either! Bit of a trend with them it seems

As someone taking out a Nationwide mortgage I'm taking note