Owning your own home

Is there a current forum approved conveyancing lawyer at the minute? We're about to start to buy / sell and getting our ducks lined up before hand.

I've been with a sweatshop conveyancer previously and it was a pretty poor experience, if anyones got a positive recommendation for a lawyer who picks up the phone, has fast response time etc I'd very much appreciate it. We're West London, but don't suppose it really matters too much where they are.

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Ha. Off to pave the whole thing

Open to suggestions

I would suggest some features like a tree/s - great for attracting wildlife.

@Soul - if you want my Ground Force (forum fav™) book drop me a pm and I'll post it to you. Just post it back whenever you're done.

It didn't resonate with me as much as the rest of the forum, but that could be because I started with an established garden.

FYI there is a gardening thread.

I'll personally recommend SAM Conveyancing who contract out to Chadwick Lawrence. Had 3 good experiences with them now. Do what they say they will and are responsive to my emails and calls.

Only thing to mention with them is to double check what is and isn't included with the cost, and then check your bill at the end. In my case I found a difference that was amended when I challenged it, but had I just trusted I would have been charged a bit more than quoted.

Didn't he recently apologise about being a proponent of Decking given the horrible maintenance requirements it imposes on folk and how it destroys wildlife habitat?

Yes, yes he did

I've yet to come across a good, responsive one!

You're going to need a new roof. That'll be £12k+VAT please

Happy new year to me, thankyou old house.

This took me ages but I finally used your code today. (I first had to sort out a dispute with EON next about electricity bill, I can recommend the energy ombudsman.)

looks like it's the shower base, and slight gap when you get in. Water over time gets through and has probably now found its way through. I'll get it all sealed up, longer term I may need to remix shower base. What's leak like now?

From my upstairs neighbour on the leak. Not convinced, as bathroom was all resealed after the same leak the year before, and they tenants in the flat didn't shower night before the leak. The leak I think was also more of a one time event than a gradual worsening waterfall of doom from gradual water build up.

I'll personally recommend SAM Conveyancing who contract out to Chadwick Lawrence.

Sorry - forgot to thank you for this. I'll get in touch with them.

I'm after two out door doors for a brick shed.

This sort of thing https://onlinedoorstore.co.uk/product/xl-joinery-ledged-braced-external-pine-gate-or-shed-door/

Is there anything I should be looking for?

It'll be painted black.

Or are there modern composite doors that don't rot?

Those kind of doors are relatively ok to DIY.

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They are an xmas gift from my folks.

Plus diying one of the doors that got broken by our tenants has been on my tdl since we moved back in 2018!

Should of just claimed on the insurance, but I wanted to save the difference of the excess 🤦

We need to split our leasehold (currently 990y, commercial) into two leaseholds (residential + commercial) after building a new residential unit. We own the freehold. We have planning permission (it’s the council insisting on separating the properties.) We got a mortgage to do these works so the mortgage company should play along. How do I go about this? Can someone recommend a solicitor who can help with this? Ideally this won’t cost me a bike…

I would have thought that if you own the freehold then you'd only be paying for your solicitor and not someone else's as well. So depending on your bike choice, you might be in luck. @Brommers I think would be the one to say whether I'm talking bollocks or not.

I own a hedge that overgrows onto the neighbours land. They are asking that I trim it on their side. I know they can't compel me to but my understanding is that it is commonly accepted that you trim the hedge on your side, no matter the ownership. Is this right?

Why wouldn't you just do both, is it hundreds of meters long?

No. You sort the shit you own out yourself rather than making it some other poor sods problem.

Man, if it's your hedge that's causing the issues- in the sake of good neighbourly behaviour and peace on Earth, I'd just do it.

When I asked the people who trimmed it last, they advised me not to have the other side done as it can be a bit of a minefield.

I have always managed overhanging things myself as I thought that was the accepted way. Noone has ever asked me to trim their side either.

Anyone on here ask their neighbours to maintain boundary hedges on their side, or maintain boundary hedges on their neighbours side?

I will prob just do it to avoid the conflict. I am wondering if I have misunderstood all these years tho.

My neighbour on one side asks to come into our front garden to trim his hedge on our side, usually a couple of times a year.

I sometimes ask to go into the neighbour on the other sides front garden to trim/weed things that are growing right up against my house. Their garage is further back than my front wall so there is a bit of hardstanding next to my wall and then 6" of gravel which I don't really want trees growing in and they don't do it.