Owning your own home

Almost any one will be fine in that space.

They condense, so you empty the tray when it's full (or hook up the feed to a drain instead if you're fancy). You need to vent vented ones.

We have a >20yo Hotpoint TCL770 Aquarius which is fine in an outdoor space similar size to yours.

cheers

When we bought recently, we found that vented tumble dryers aren't much of a thing any more, they seem to have made way for heat pump types.

Also look at heat pump ones that can then send the condensate down the drain via a small pipe

Which? likes AEG at a lot of pricepoints

5 stabbings and one shooting outside my old place by the park.
Was just back today and really miss living there but the premium is insane.

Does anyone have a recommendation for home buyers' insurance?

I think it might be worthwhile this time because if we have an offer accepted on the place we're keen on we'll be dealing with sellers who seem a bit disinterested (sons selling their mum's place with power of attorney).

Went to view a new build yesterday, the start of a (probably) year long research mission to work out what we actually want next. Aspects very much appealed: solar panels/battery/charging point included, ground source heat pump, sprinkler system. But fuck me, where do you keep everything? The show home master bedroom didn't even have a wardrobe in it. Would require a major reform of my hoarding tendencies.

That seems to be a thing, when we were looking last year apart from the other issue with new builds they rarely seemed to have any kind of storage and no nooks/crannies for building shelves in to or whatever.

I encounter similar, estate agent basically said “it’s so people can see it look bigger”.

The UK housing marketing is broken. Developers maximize number of bedrooms and don't advertise floor space so you get tiny rooms.

Sometimes I wonder if there is a conflict of interests between maximising profits for developers and creating quality sustainable homes for people.

Fortunately the free market means that prospective purchasers can simply spend their money with another developer offering a better product.

Had a few hours off and amazed at thr number of large new build estates near me (>10 of hundreds of units at least). Went to see two show houses, normally they choose the most favourable ones with best views, biggest garden, weird shape house that has a little extra space.
Nope, smallest pokiest place I think I've ever seen in thr Uk, both cala and aome other brand, Willoughby? Lowest grade wren kitchen fitted with least amount of style, quality and thought, cheapest bulk buy bathroom, very small windows in every room and very few windows if that makea sense, I guess they spend less on proper insulation and finnese with air tightness, so then have to have smaller windows in order to get the right u value for planning regs. I. E been built in the cheapest possible way.
Could already see phase 1 owners moved in and already place looked like a giant car park for suv type cars dumped all over thr road, grass, driveways and verges in order to fit them all in. Fail.
As a country why are we standing for this? Let alone the massive increase in car journeys required in order to"live"in these places.

Not when the same few developers are bribing council planning departments to allow them to buy up land and build the same shit everywhere. #nimby

This is something the US have nailed. Even in tiny apparments in New York, there is proper storage with proper closet.

Over here they simply leave it out. Like that story where a development had garages which weren't big enough to open a car door, but yet there wasn't enough off street or on street parking for each house.

You can debate the merits of the free market and how well it works, but a prerequisite is that you have some sort of competition between suppliers.

From the get-go it's flawed in the case of housing.

My default reflex definitely isn't to nationalise all the things, but I think we've reached a tipping point where there needs to be some sort of new state-backed housing policy along the lines of the old garden cities. Probably coupled with a compulsory purchase system.

I see you've been to Milton Keynes

It doesn't surprise me, but loft was apparently not recommended to board over (though I'm sure it could be done) under stairs taken by the heat pump, kitchen cupboard houses the battery. Bit of an airing cupboard housing the water tank, but that was about it.

prospective purchasers can simply spend their money with another developer offering a better product from 1925

And number of bathrooms. 5 bed, 5 bath, 80m² seems to be what people want

We used Rhino. We're about to claim on it. Can't recommend until that's been paid out.

You probably need to act quickly though as Rhino needed you to buy the policy < 1 week after the memorandum of sale was sent out. Presume that's the same with others.

The problem is a lot of people want to move into a brand new place, they dont want to do work and want everything box fresh but also a lot of these devlopers are offering deals to get people to buy and for people who maybe are getting priced out the market by others going 20 percent above asking.

Its a complete shit show the now

dont want to do work

I feel seen.

Also big windows are overrated. It's dark/grey most of the time I'm in my house.

Went to see a Persimmon new build and they admitted they used scaled down furniture and beds to make the rooms look bigger......