Owning your own home

Cheers @Aroogah @Soul

That question felt so silly, as a business I manage is one of the largest relocations websites in the world (we don’t do UK domestic)! 🤦🏻

Not your area of expertise. No stress.

Ours was a little less than that, £1128.

I noticed on our quotation which I dug out that we paid a weekday rate - suggesting they also have a weekend rate, which might be pushing the price up if that's when you're scheduled to move?

Does anyone have a combi boiler with integrated hot water storage (or any experience with them)? I'm trying to work out if we want one - quite hard to find proper reviews.

Weekday move - that’s interesting. Would you mind sharing your quote?

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We don’t but I wonder how much storage you’d need for it to be useful? It’s not like you could pump from a 5 litre tank for example, right?

The Viessmann one (111) is 46L and as far as I can tell is blended with the combi output to give higher flow equivalent of a 150L unvented tank, whatever that means.
The Vaillant one (938) is more opaque as to how big it is and what it actually does - flow seems the same as the equivalent model without a tank but I think the idea is that a) you’ve got instant hot water with no startup time and b) if someone runs a tap during a shower, there’s additional capacity and flow is maintained at higher temps.

Ah that’s interesting. The valiant we have can store a bit of hot so taps with a short pipe run get instant hot. I like the idea of a blended system if it came in a smallish package but I wonder if you could pump from them if they are blended?

Which model Vaillant is that?
I think the idea of the Viessmann is that it presents as a standard combi - I would guess that if you demand the flow (via pump or otherwise) you get it but potentially an issue if the store runs out.

It's an Ecotec 24 - we don't use the feature though because the boiler kicks in every hour or so for a few moments to re-heat the water which seems like waste of gas for little benefit, to us anyway. Our bathroom has a massive pipe run so you don't even notice the feature when it's on. The kitchen, it's apparent when it is on, but then, it's washing up mainly, so who cares.

My other flat has a system boiler install. So you get a tiny wall mounted combi and a large tank and pump driver in the cupboard in the hall. The shower is amazing but otherwise it's overkill as the mains pressure is pretty great too. Ground floor flat.

Had a look at the 111 - not clear if you can pump from it, assuming either you can or it has it's own built in pump then that would be a great solution where a system is overkill, like it is in my other flat.

@chrisbmx116 Windows looking good Chris 👀

HA HA, did you just ride past?

Yeah was heading back home and took a detour as never been round you endz

Has anyone got any experience on here with a Dunsley and/or Pure Vision stove/log burner? Had quotes, ready to pull the trigger soon. There seems to be a lot of choice in manufacturers but narrowed it down to 2-3 models. Cheers

None with those brands. I have a Morso which is brilliant.

Whatever you get, I'd suggest Defra clean air compliant model would be a good choice.

http://www.bigredremovals.com/ is my neighbour, haven't used them myself

Had two viewings of my flat yesterday and received two offers. One at asking, one £20k under.

No idea what that says about the post coronavirus property market.

What the fuck

Now you've got a job to do!

Let the lowballer know that you've got an offer at asking and see what happens. Won't be surprised if the next offer comes with a premium...

Was fully expecting some low ball offers.

Annoyingly the one that offered asking has only just put their place on the market. The other is in the process of selling theirs but it's in a chain (not sure how big but reportedly everyone is able to proceed).

If we can't get the place that we previously had the offer accepted on we probably won't bother moving for a while so could really do with getting things moving.

Asbestos home testing kits: are they reliable enough to be, err, relied upon? I just need to check if our ceiling is going to be ££ or ££££ to take down.

Yes, the test is fairly straightforward. The real skill with asbestos testing is removing a sample(s) in such a way that minimises the risk of producing airborne particles.

The asbestos specialists that I used to work with when I did commercial renovations used chisels that were sharp enough to make most chippies jealous. They would place the chisel on the piece of material to be sampled then place the sample bag over it forming the tightest possible seal and shave off a tiny sliver. Once this was done they would "pinch" the top of the bag together without removing it from the surface to try and trap as much contaminated air as possible.

If you are concerned you can get asbestos specialists to carry out a survey for you don't know how much it would cost though.

Well, a chunk of the coating actually came off when I tried to glue a fire alarm bracket after failing to locate a joist, so I could use that I guess. There are a couple of different surfaces that have potential for asbestos so I should probably just see how much a small survey is.

When you say coating do you mean artex?