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I hope that's poo waste pipe. Got another viewing tomorrow.. literally just came up on rightmove and went COME ON. Its like PS5 pre-orders all over again. |
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SnackPlissken 3,512 posts
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Psychotext 70,652 posts
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Registered 15 years agoIt is indeed off the shitter, but that's not where the problem is (thankfully). -
SnackPlissken 3,512 posts
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Registered 4 years agoI dunno man.. are you sure they haven't accidently cut into it? -
Nexus_6 6,169 posts
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Registered 17 years agoPsychotext wrote:
What are they opening that up for?
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mrpon 37,367 posts
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Registered 15 years agoFucking hell, might as well take the whole ceiling down! Going to be a nightmare to patch that! -
askew 24,121 posts
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Registered 16 years agoPazJohnMitch wrote:
Got their 5% and Help To Buy? :s
A young couple are buying my flat for over £400k. No idea how the hell they can afford it.
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elstoof 28,128 posts
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Registered 16 years agoPsychotext wrote:
The waiter pipes look unsupported, the mains cables aren’t clipped to anything, and the bits they’ve cut can’t be replaced properly as there’s fuck all to attach a new board to - you want a joist either side of the board otherwise it’ll move and crack eventually
Getting to see more of my house than I'd like to again. Thanks Barratt...
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Technoishmatt 5,366 posts
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Registered 7 years agoPazJohnMitch wrote:
Depends how old they are?! We rented for years, lived abroad for a bit and made our savings (were able to live off one salary), which we piled into our stupid London prices house two years ago (now there is very little left at end of month...). Also, you can get a 40 year mortgage with very low interest rates
A young couple are buying my flat for over £400k. No idea how the hell they can afford it.
Was even more confused by the fact I entered a £700k+ bidding war on the place I am buying and the other couples involved were First Time Buyers..gif)
The monthly mortgage is like half what rent would be on our place, and more than half of the mortgage is going towards repayment! -
askew 24,121 posts
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Registered 16 years agoelstoof wrote:
Kicking the poor man while he's down, els!
Psychotext wrote:
The waiter pipes look unsupported, the mains cables aren’t clipped to anything, and the bits they’ve cut can’t be replaced properly as there’s fuck all to attach a new board to - you want a joist either side of the board otherwise it’ll move and crack eventually
Getting to see more of my house than I'd like to again. Thanks Barratt...
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Psychotext 70,652 posts
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Registered 15 years agoYeah, they're putting in new timber.
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Dougs 100,415 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI assume once (ha!) It's all fixed, you're putting it on the market? -
Psychotext 70,652 posts
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Registered 15 years agoCouple of years, as I need to save up enough to make the next jump. But yes, very much sooner rather than later.
Edit - One up-side is that everyone that comes here (and doesn't know about the nightmares) says something positive about how quiet the area is, or how this house has a load of space around it, or it's got surprisingly big garden etc. With the bonus of a highly rated primary school within walking distance, hopefully it'll not be too hard to shift.
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ibenam 3,508 posts
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Registered 14 years agoPutting my gaff up for sale in a few months.
Looks like I'll be able to get triple what I paid for it which is insane
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ibenam 3,508 posts
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Registered 14 years agoyah I'm thinking rent then buy when the market eventually collapses again
People are clearly overpaying and will eventually default and bubble will burst again
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damagedinc 3,105 posts
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Registered 10 years agoNot going to collapse anytime soon. We're in the middle of buying selling and every viewing is held at the weekend on one day.
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elstoof 28,128 posts
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Registered 16 years agoAll that money saved on Pret and Wagamama going into the house savings account then -
Frogofdoom 17,974 posts
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SnackPlissken 3,512 posts
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Registered 4 years agoI do wonder about houses that have been built in the last 2-3 years being put on the market by people.. are they just people fed up with the snags.. -
Wayne 4,059 posts
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Registered 15 years agoSnackPlissken wrote:
I’d say it’s likely people who convinced themselves they could afford a bigger mortgage than they realistically could. Or people who bought a house and then got hit hard by the pandemic.
I do wonder about houses that have been built in the last 2-3 years being put on the market by people.. are they just people fed up with the snags.. -
souvlaki 1,191 posts
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Registered 15 years agoLots of reasons - people split up, circumstances change and jobs move etc. -
souvlaki 1,191 posts
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Registered 15 years agoHowever, once the pandemic has died down and people get back to some sort of regular normality I expect things to change again - dogs abandoned, people selling places with big gardens that they can't cope with etc. -
mrpon 37,367 posts
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Registered 15 years agoSnackPlissken wrote:
The fixed term ends!!
I do wonder about houses that have been built in the last 2-3 years being put on the market by people.. are they just people fed up with the snags.. -
Psychotext 70,652 posts
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Registered 15 years agoMost people around here seem to be turning their gardens into astroturf / patio abominations. It's all the rage.
Edit - More cutting going on here today. FFS. Felt like I had a hangover when I woke up this morning, I think I was grinding my teeth in the night.
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Dougs 100,415 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI'll probably go artificial grass at some point. The ground here is clay-based and with a North facing garden, everything gets very soggy for 5/6 months of the year that the garden is practically unusable. Long way off that but I think is a serious consideration when we get round to it. It's such a small patch of grass anyway. -
Psychotext 70,652 posts
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Registered 15 years agoLawl...
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mrpon 37,367 posts
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Registered 15 years agoOoof! Surprised they didn't cut thru that cable!! -
Nexus_6 6,169 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI'm struggling to see what we're actually looking at here but would love to know. -
Psychotext 70,652 posts
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Registered 15 years agoFirst pic is screws in stairs completely missing what they were trying to screw into (first attempt to fix creaking stairs).
Second pic is where they've put the cutout for the stairs in the wrong place, so the wood is touching the stairs anyway (different floor to first stairs).
Third pic is a water pipe being held in place by a screw rather than a clip, and a waste pipe that was pushing against the plasterboard (which they did manage to cut when they removed the board). -
For fuck sake that is just pathetic.
There is no way I thought that was a stair in the first image as it looks as though it's chipboard - I would never build a stair with chipboard!
No wonder you're grinding your teeth it's fucking pathetic. Sorry you're still going through all this.
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