Owning your own home

And the whole house of cards is starting to topple, just been informed by our seller she is going to re-list unless we exchange by end of week.
Surprised she held out for so long, our useless buyer dicked about and went on boating holidays when he should have been sorting solicitors/mortgages out, we were a week away from exchanging about 6 weeks ago when his solicitor flagged up a missing insurance cert for underpinning done in mid 90’s, nobody has a copy, it’s out of date/historical/irrelevant and we gave them a surveyor report from 2014/15 where they measure for movement over a year and it moved 0.0025mm (this was done to reduce building insurance premiums)
Barclays have sat on final sign off by the the valuer for 6 weeks now and broker/solicitor have been bollocked for hassling them daily.
So it’s all over bar the shouting/finger pointing., what a fucking waste of 10 months of our time.

And to make it worse the new owner of the bottom flat moved in last week, no mention of missing insurance certs from 1996....

Fuck I'm sorry to read that, man.

what’s really annoying is the flat isn’t a hard sell, people love it and it gets 3-4 offers after 2-3 days of viewings.
It’s just the utter shithousery of people and the buying/selling system in this country.

De draft design nice looking dormers.

If I can find a job I want to do somewhere between Oxford and Bristol (or persuade my wife the North West is actually a great place to live and bring up children) then yes - possibly September 2023.

a new motor would be more than a new machine

Phoning around today, this what everyone says. One guy says they don't even bother trying to check for bearings in most machines because they're such a pig to get into.

Mental - apparently a large appliance is a single use item because of something that could probably be made to be easily replaceable

There's the right to repair bill in force now - no idea how well it is enforced or has affected appliances though

The right to repair doesn't mean the right to be cheap

Ah, I see

I think it's less that the cost of repairs are high and more that new machines are much cheaper now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFMi2aTD-Hk

£449 in 1993 = £780 today

Ah man that sucks, I feel like there are way too many folk out there buying/selling property who just seem to have no actual interest in buying or selling their property. Heard numerous mates deals fall through, or have been months and months of just utter nonsense, most common story is solicitors dragging feet (on both sides of the coin) or just not sending things when they say they have.

I'm sorry to say that in the early hours, an attempt was made on the life of my anti-alcoholic fence (see August 2019).

We were awoken by a drunken argument in the street, and I looked through the curtains and a hilariously pathetic fight that looked like some kind of Bollywood or interpretive dance. It stopped being funny when one of them grabbed the other and rugby tackled them through the fence and on top of my hedge.

Fucking wankers.

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Any examples?

Yeah that’s nice. Sauce?

Also, http://dedraft.co.uk/projects/ar-residence/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CgeUQ0fsq07/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

This looks good too

Re: Dormers
Def prefer the look of when the dormer box comes from within the roof rather than butted right up to the edge.

Sadly PD rules do lead to many shit dormers but go the full PP route and it is possible to do something really nice.

A lot of them do look shit to be fair. Plastic clad, uPVC windows, messy gutters, bad flashing...

You've seen the shit show that is the back of my house then

Sorry to be banging on about my broken washer... No idea where to get one from (or if it matters), anyone know a good place to buy a new one from from where someone will fit and remove the old one at the same time

Currys install a new machine for £25 and take away the old one for £20 looking at their website.

We used them back in 2016 with no issues and pretty sure the prices were the same then which seems remarkable given everything else is creeping up!

Most places (AO, Currys, John Lewis, etc) will do that but they'll charge for it. If you have good access they aren't too tricky to do and the council may take your old one for free (or not much money).

I think I got my last one with AO and they had some half price installation and removal deal, these seem to crop up pretty often on most of the above.