Owning your own home

hague blue tho!

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Our mortgage broker was over tonight, time for refinancing... Seemed very straightforward, no need to panic at all... Happy about that...

The postman must love that.

who get's analogue post anymore?

Where do you get your artisanal discount coffee from?

Nice looking door.

Strong locks too.

Hague blue with concrete ish plant pots no less! Would I be right in guessing there’s Aesop in the bathroom?

good heavens man, do i look like some sort of uncultured philistine that would have some sort of tk maxx basic handwash in my octagonal-tiled wet room?

ps. that's not my door, it's someone else's door that looks identical to ours.

door.

We have all moved away from Aesop, its for povvos, all about Byredo now.

You buy your basic bitch jeans at TK Maxx tho'...

Bookmarked.
Since moving to the provinces I am really out of touch, need to buck up.

you shut your dirty mouth!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGuWvEEl0Nk

I feel a bit let down by your life coaching recently, I would dock your wages if I were paying you.

Does anyone have any recommendations for someone to tile a bathroom in E7?

How much was said door, if you don't mind me asking?

yeah it wasn't cheap by anyone's standards. upwards of 3.5k all in, but it really is the last door you'll ever need.

doors are spenny af.

but it really is the last door you'll ever need.

what if you move?

ain't nobody moving nowhere.

bonus: it's pretty much riot proof.

not so sure about the windows tho.

You read this too?

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not sure hammering snossages into your wall will help but what do i know.

That was my thought

Our neighbour is proposing an extension and has asked us if we have any objections. He’s a twat. I’d like to make sure we don’t agree to anything, even in principal, that could give us problems down the line.

Our bedroom is currently over his bathroom. We can hear a fair bit but it’s a bathroom so not much in the way of conversation and his tenants don’t spend much time in there. In the new plans we’ll have his kitchen / living room under our bedroom. Not ideal. Suggestions to put to him regarding sound insulation are welcome.

The only other thing I can think of is poor access if we need to do work on the roof or something. Can we scaffold off his extension roof?

Anyway, here’s the plans and proposed. Hive-mind troubleshooting welcome. I don’t want to have to reach for the saveloy a year down the line.

For the record, we’re both lease holders with a 3rd party freeholder. He’s asking their permission as well as our consent, but I’m not sure we have much actual pushback if we don’t want it... tbh I don’t mind the idea, noise issues being solved.

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• P01_Proposed Plan_Basement Ground Roof_290819.pdf
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Is this work being carried out under permitted development, or is he having to apply for planning permission?

Was the property always flats or has it been subdivided at some point?

What is the local authority?

There should already be some form of accoustic insulation specified in any approval he has but how this is enforced and how good his contractors are at pulling a fast one on the building inspector, is another issue. At the very least I'd imagine his guys will put PIR (polyisocyanurate) board (kingspan etc.) between the joists which will give you a marked improvement on noise travelling upwards although impact noise will still travel down.

Your first point of call should be to talk through your concerns with him, see if you can find out if he has factored them into his plans. At the end of the day it will be cheaper for both of you doing it this way.

Also if I were you I would make like a heard of elephants every time you hear someone in his shitter while he's waiting for work to go ahead this will drive home the message about the accoustic insulation.

Going forward there shouldn't be any issues scaffolding onto a flat roof as long as any scaffolders spread the load appropriately. But at the end of the day even if they don't their liability insurance will cover it.