Owning your own home

I've never heard it

I currently have a massive Megaflo tank with loads of capacity so I'm not too worried about running out. The noise further down thread is a bummer though :(

Interesting.

I noticed it by filling the pan (heavy 3 ply) with water and putting it on to boil. The boil was much less pronounced in the areas outside of the heating area.

awesome and scary to see a house held up like that

Crikey... this is what my next door neighbour will be doing soon.

Is someone upstairs in yours whilst this is all happening? I feel for a couple living in a tiny flat above my next door neighbour.

Awesome!
Is it a double height side return or gf only?

Ground floor only.

Double height was a possibility but we would lose our awesome size bathroom (as you cut it for the hallway) and the extra bedroom would be tiny. Wasn't worth the extra outlay (even if we got PP.
Obvs the side return is pitching up but also the ceiling will be lifted up after the first steel almost to the window height above.

Bi-folds at the end will be 2.2m x 4.4m

No this is our house and we have moved out. The noise is pretty bad when they dig the foundations.

We only have one neighbour (end of terrace) and she's super understanding. We are very lucky.

Is someone upstairs in yours whilst this is all happening? I feel for a couple living in a tiny flat above my next door neighbour.

There was a reasonably recent story going round where the owners of a ground floor flat decided to dig their basement out only to send the entire building down when they fucked the foundations up. Flat above was occupied and they had to evacuate.

Flats: let me count the ways they can fuck you up.

This is less than two weeks in by the way.

maybe dammit could do this with the mid-terrace he was looking at

A bit of expanding foam will see that right

That is nightmare inducing

Vanishing freeholder update. Our solicitor has FINALLY got a response from our freeholders' new solicitor saying they have spoken and we should have info by today or tomorrow. Still not holding my breath, but it's better than radio silence.

Howard: I'd like to buy this house please for £1.xM
EA: Sure, offer accepted
Vendor: BTW it's been badly affected by subsidence and underpinned but I'm only telling you now that you've incurred costs
Howard: You need to make an allowance for that - buildings insurance is £1,200 year
EA: £3k or we offer it to another interested party / buyer
Howard: We'll think about it runs off to find another house, finds house, makes offer, offer accepted
EA: What do you think
Howard: Fuck you
EA: they will go to the other buyer
Howard: OK hun, also: fuck you
EA: Howard, turns out the other buyer won't be qualified until January and surprise, vendor doesn't want an empty period property over winter. What would it take, £10k?
Howard: £100k

Why do you want an allowance for an underpinned property? (Assuming historic).

buildings insurance is £1,200 year

Also, google 'should I buy an underpinned property?'

I polled a load of people - answers were 'no' to 'maybe'. So it's going to be a PITA to sell at the end.

It's a bit circular - they are blighted because people think they are blighted and that isn't going to change easily.

FWIW from a technical perspective if the job was done well it makes the place 'better' than stock. Trouble is you never can tell exactly what was done on the day and to what level of quality.

I spent a lot of time understanding the analysis and design documentation for the work that was done* and took advice from people who know what they are doing - in theory it should have been good, but the shitty attitude of the EA and the Seller combined with the potential for the same trouble when selling put me off.

* old school typed reports and hand drawn specifications. Amazin.

Boo.

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The fact they sprung it on you late in the game definitely makes it suspicious.

The high pressure sales tactics from the EA were also something else.

We asked for the seller to help us out with the BI costs over the 20 years or so we would stay there in the interests of striking a quick deal and keeping the thing alive. This was roughly 1% of the offer price. It was declined.

Better than any drama on Radio 4.

Also. Be sure to wave to the EA and vendor once they have gotten into the sea, where they truly belong.

Progress on refurb.

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fffuuck

Sounds like they have shafted themselves on £1m+ for the sake of £20k... not a smart move given how rapidly the market appears to be cooling going into Brexit+second lockdown.

Yep. Proper madness. When they countered with £3k I knew it was finished.