Owning your own home

That price you see on Rightmove is a marketing ploy. You want to look at the home report and add your cash over element to that.

Ie. Rightmove offers over 165, home report is actually 180, sale price 230. (May 20 - G41 ends)

berwick

Pronounced burr-wick, obvs.

Trololol...?

On a different note: has anyone got experience of living in a 1920s house with cavity walls? My gut feel is it'll be cold and that adding insulation in the cavity will induce moisture which will corrode the wall ties. So I expect it to be a bit of a shitter, but perhaps I'm too conservative?

I live in a 1920s house - solid sandstone exterior walls, internal walls are cavity/lathe-and-plaster. it's warmer than my old 1900s third floor tenement

My roof has loads of moss on it, it's annoying as it ends up all over the floor when it rains.

What's the easiest way to get rid of this (my longest ladder will only get me to the gutters)? Would be willing to pay someone if it wasn't too pricey and they didn't knacker my roof but doesn't seem to be a thing (or I'm searching the wrong thing).

Also, opinion seems split whether leaving it to grow or removing it is worse for the roof. Anyone any ideas on that?

Is it ending on your floor because your gutter is full of moss?

Very possibly. Cleaning gutters is on the list as soon as we get hold of our window cleaner but I assume we'll keep getting the same problem if the moss is still on the roof.

Cheers appreciate the advice. Just the constant thought of would I get a better deal in 6 months

People have been thinking that for the past twenty years or so and generally they haven't.

I bought my place about a year ago and thought long and hard as had concerns about prices dropping after pandemic, Brexit, etc. As it turns out, prices have only gone up in the past year ...

When it rains moss soaks up all the water and them dumps it all in one place. If your roof isn't totally watertight you'll get leaks. Also in winter that water freezes and cracks your roof tiles. Which then leak in the spring.
TLDR Get rid of it.

https://www.traderadiators.com/

Yep, that's what I thought. The main issue is how to get rid.

Tower scaffold, cherry picker…spendy but less terrifying than a really long ladder!

Just sit on the roof and kick it off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT3D1Cu6g10

Small child and a plastic scraper? My dad sent me up on the roof when I was a kid to clear the moss off. We had this ladder with 2 wheels on one side and a hook grip on the other and shoved an old sprung sofa cushion underneath to protect the slates. Character building! Not entirely sure you could get away with that these days though.
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Small child and a plastic scraper?

Badgers collect moss and use it for bedding.

Also more likely to survive a fall from a roof than a small child as they have very thick skulls.

I cleaned the moss off our kitchen extension roof a few weeks ago. Waited till it was real dry then had at it with a stiff brush. Roofer told me it comes off easiest either when it’s bone dry or soaking wet. Didn’t fancy climbing on a wet roof.

Hah yeah you can just climb out of a velux or whatever.

Character building indeed :)

Eurgh F61 error code on Vaillant boiler - need to find a gas safe engineer to come and have a look to diagnose the problem 😞

I cleaned the gutters along my garage the other day. It was like an exhibit showing how moss turns into peat bogs. Definitely time to get the gutters on the house cleared, as I can't imagine they're any better.

I had that one once, it needed a PCB!

Is that gonna be expensive?

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If you can source one yourself, maybe not. If you let someone else buy one for you, then yes.