Owning your own home

Sofa.com! Nic has one in her office and it's really good. This one.

Moving day was yesterday, it's never not insanely stressful is it? We only moved 10 minutes down the road but I still ended up broken whilst dealing with toddler and wife meltdowns.

Anyway, we're in, house is an absolute bombsite but TV and Internet works so Disney+ can do some babysitting whilst we wade through the carnage.

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Tidier that my house on a normal day - that was a deliberate flex right

Spidey and friends to the rescue.

Tbf the worst of the damage is off stage left and right plus you can't see all the food on the floor!

You know it!

Anyone had a front yard done recently? Victorian tiled path, slabs to the rest kind of thing. Just trying to get an idea of cost

I had someone quote £5k labour only for this exact job. Did it myself in the end.

Nice space. Are you in UK? Those open tread stairs are not exactly small child friendly.

We've got a Swyft, we've had it for 3 years and I would recommend, felt a bit spendy at the time but worth it.

House looks fabulous

Nah, in France. The stairs are fine, the rise is quite gentle and the tread is deep plus they were raised in a victorian terrace with vertical stairs and no child gate.

They're pros (He says confidential before they end up in a death tumble)

Thanks! We had an arduous house hunt, ended up buying a new build (which I never thought I would) because the living space and quality was so good.

Cheers. I have fears it is going to be steep. Just seen that the tiles are something like £350/sqm...

Annoyingly it turns out the drunk we paid to fix out gutter didn't do a great job.

Leak on one elbow for sure, possibly the second too. Then overflow on the corner. Gutters are clean enough. The elbows are the most problematic as they cause running water on the wall.

The semis on our road all have the same gutter design where each house has a downpipe on the side near the front.

Is it me or is this a bit of a shit design given there is a drain on the back as well?

Anyone had gutters fixed replaced recently and know what the rough cost is, and have any tips? This feels exactly like one of those shit house jobs that will be impossible to find someone to do and cost way more than expected.

Also am I crazy to think about using a brick sealer in the high risk spots as a preventative for the future? My logic is that if the majority of the brick work is not sealed then any trapped water has lots of options to wick away, but it reduces ingres(sp?) in those spots.

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Woke up to a small puddle of water on the window sill - it’s going to be fun working out if it’s the slightly unhealthy looking seals or the slightly crumbling surround between the frame and the brick.

What a treat…

A (good) roofer will fix this, probably just slap some CT-1 on it and charge you £500 but it is working at height…

Ligne Roset multy, used. There's loads of them around.
Don't remember who, but someone on here bought one on my recommendation.
It's a good sofa, and my dad slept on ours for years. Wouldn't want to do that, but better than all the other sofa beds I slept on.
One friend told me that he has his third now, always sells when moving and then gets a new used one.

My sis lives in a maisonette in north London and has some stained glass in her front door (other flat has its own entrance). She's had some solid locks fitted but isn't sure about the stained glass from a security perspective. Would the thing to do here be get the glass put in some secondary glazing? Any firms that do that?

Edit ps someone made a mess with the plaster and it needed painting anyway !

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What if someone took a cordless saw to the door below that lock and ripped across it?

I can't help but think if someone wants to get in they will.

I’d probably see if a sheet of Perspex would fit on nicely behind that - IANAB but stopping or putting off the chancers who might think to smash the glass and turn whatever they can would be my Pareto solution

Looks like the glass is full width in which case, if the perp is ok with smashing glass to get in, it isn't going to make too much difference if it's single or double glazed.

I'm guessing there will be an accessible ground floor window just to the left of the door so if you are going to smash things, that's another option.

Every house is only as secure as the windows. I would just leave it myself but to each their own.

Why worry about the leaded glass, relative to every other way to get into the house? If someone really wanted to get in, they would. The leaded glass, even only single pane, would be a real pain to get through. So long as the new locks can’t just be turned from the inside from a single broken pane, it’s all relatively secure.

If she’s worried. Just get an alarm.

This staircase just goes straight up to the maisonette so no ground floor windows to worry about. Thanks for the suggestions