Howard

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• Tamiya

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 5 hours

  

  Front motor long travel 4wd init. Super dynamic compared to the touring cars that are more point and shoot.

  I lie though, it’s not entirely stock; the front has a ball diff not the geared diff.

• Tamiya

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 6 hours

  

  Stock XV-01 at West London

• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 6 days

  

  Nothing wrong with a pressurised hot water cylinder. Especially if you actually like washing your hands in hot water.

  If it all works don’t just rip it out to fit an inferior system. Wait for it to croak then have at it.

• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 weeks, 3 days

  

  You're cutting your nose off to spite your face at this point if you walk away

  I agree, to an extent. This is their opportunity to get negotiating experience.

  @PhilDAS Get back to the EA with a revised offer. Best guess. i.e. worst case £20k to fix the lot (wall, chimney, roof). They might tell you to do one, they might not. Take it from there. If you've already decided to sack it off, there's no harm in it.

• Owning your own home

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 weeks, 4 days

  

  Interesting.

  I feel the outcome will be determined by how keen the sellers are to move.

  If they have a place lined up already, and have had some buyers pull out, they will negotiate and you will be able to chip them a fair amount.

  If you are the first buyers and they feel they can afford the wait, they will push as hard as they like and try and test you.

  I would, personally, get in touch with the seller. Try and strike up a dialog. Going through the EA won't really work here. Also, I'd start looking for another place, a plan B, as you might need it.

  FWIW, any roof over 20 years old would be classed as end of life, so don't read too much in to that on it's own. We had a similar report for ours, OG unlined Edwardian tiled roof. It's still going after a £7k service. If the wooden roof structure is fucked somehow, that's another story. So I'd be keen to find out the real condition of the structure underneath. That's a Roofer's job, but as always, it will be hard to get them in to look without the possibility of a job lined up.

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 weeks

  

  Appears I don’t like setting the date though!

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 weeks

  

  All the time this at the mo

• What time is it? Watches and horology

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 weeks

  

  Dayum

• Keeping your home warm / heating / energy crisis / insulation etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 weeks, 1 day

  

  That's mad. Our place looks like that... if you don't heat it at all.

• Tamiya

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 month

  

  It’s just a silver can on 3s. Run it loads and it’s been ok.

  I use direct soldered connections on the serious stuff.