Owning your own home

Uzma was efficient - our previous conveyancer was my good friend and so I think we were a little spoiled. @jonny gave her a great review and I trust him so that was good for me (think there was another who’d followed his recco). Her firm was acquired halfway through our purchase so I can’t say if fees/platform etc are all exactly the same but I would recommend her.

@Well_is_it

The awkward story about being recommended by a random stranger from an online cycling forum is soon going to no longer seem very weird for her!

Tricky jobs today

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haha. yeah very much this.

she will be pulling whip skids before too long

Where you heading BRO?

Bathroom supplies... what do folks recommend? Taps are sorted, as is basin, but I'm at a loss with inset baths... C.P.Hart have a pretty limited range and googling only brings up bargain basement options. Duravit do a bath which looks ok, but not quite right.

and @Well_is_it it was @Quincy who put me on to her in first place. so she must have done at least half a dozen on here by now

That towel radiator is rubbish. It doesn't have enough surface area to be very efficient.

For inset baths try Kaldewei or Bette.

Cheers! Will have a browse!

Ha, fair enough! I like the copper pipe look, but maybe it's useless and another reason to keep my spare £20m.

Further East. Still at a very fragile stage so will give you more info when it looks like it’s actually happening...

Zone 3?

Beyond the north circular...

we’ve had a few estate agents round with many different strategies:

• Take current listing down imminently (next weekend) - they start contacting their user base from when our contract expires (4th jan) for 10 days before they list it on rightmove etc - relist it back at 350k (was 350k, we dropped to 340k), agent is a big london wide agent but no immediately local office
  
• Launch on the 4th at OIEO 325k in the hope you can drive price up to 335/340, agent has strong local present but isnt a big name
  
• Launch on the 4th at 340k ideally having our advert being down for at least a week beforehand, agent has good local presence and larger london presence
  
  

Heard lots of conflicting info, our current agent obviously wants to keep the listing online for the boxing day-new year period, but two of the new companies said that the enquiries from those days are mostly ‘bored’ people not serious searchers, but then they have incentive for that period to have no eyes on the flat.

I can see the benefit of having a gap between the listings, but I don’t know when the ‘right’ time is.

Never heard of it.

A whole day to get to here. Only dry fit

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Bloody good work!

Felt pretty good about myself after that. Came out to drive home and someone has smashed into my car and drove away. Massive dent in the front wing.

Mate. You’re having some shit luck these days.

Great looking work on the stairs though.

Who did you piss off to get all this bad luck?

Looks great though.

Dado rail and coving is going in at the moment. My carpenter said it takes him too long to do the curved wall in our hallway so will cost extra. Took a look and it looks feasible to do it myself, so having a crack at it tomorrow.

Good luck. I got tools if you need them

Thanks mate.

Planning on doing it by hand as the dado isn't that thick and if you go too far it'll just snap when it bends.

Really impressive the amount you're doing yourself. It looks great too.

Looks amazing compared to how it was a few months ago, Dov.