Originally Posted by Lewis
I'm a twit
Cheers. Can't get a picture of the inside of the loft as the hatch is at the top of the stairs and we had to borrow the father in laws tall ladder to get up there last week.
It has been recently insulated and there is a lot of room. It's an old house, built in the early 1900's IIRC. Partially boarded although obviously not to flooring standard.
Shouldn't be to expensive as you already have a gable roof so wouldn't need the hip to gable extension. Just the dormers fitting either side and all the conversion work.
Cheers Andy. Will get someone round for a quote although probably not looking at doing it for a year or so (depending on cost).
I think the main cost is going to be building the stairs as there's no ready made place for them. Will need to nick a bit of one of the existing bedrooms.
Last edited by Spikey M; 04-07-2021 at 01:50 PM.
Loft conversions sound phenomenal.
Loft rooms are boiling in summer and freezing in winter, except if people/rooms below have their heating on, in which case you get lovely underfloor heating.
I went to view a house with a loft conversion once and was startled by a cardboard cut out of Harry Styles behind the resulting bedroom door. Tidy room but not ideal for a man of my dimensions, seller rejected our low ball in Autumn 2018 and has only just managed to sell it now. Unsure if Harry still resides in the loft.
I BULLIED the other solicitor into halving my bill, and the new one has sorted it out (and cost less because the old one charged less for searches than this one). I get the keys Tuesday.
The great British art of complaining.
Exchanging today! People say that moving house is one of the most stressful things you can do but the big upside of it is realising that everyone else is that little bit lazy and rubbish at their jobs too.
Accepted a new offer on my flat, fingers crossed this one doesn’t fall through.
Landslide?
I got my keys, and it had been left in a right shit state. Do I have any grounds to make the estate agent get it properly cleaned, or am I stuck with how I bought it?
Chance your arm and see what they say, but if they say no, the grief involved with making them do it would almost certainly be above and beyond just doing it yourself though.
And that's assuming they do have to clean it. We did, but I've no idea if you actually have to.
I think once it’s all signed up then you’re stuck with it as is.
I think you're out of luck, Lewis.
They've also left me a manky settee, but I could just throw that through the estate agent's window.
I’d set fire to that on the footpath to introduce yourself to the neighbours.
Send it Yev's way. He'll need props for the sitcom. Unless he's gone completely Roger Cook against SCIENCE. That might be a better watch.
This one I do know. If it's not down in the contract as being left then it shouldn't be there and they are obliged to remove it.
However... how much of a pain in the arse that would be to achieve may still mean it's easier to just get rid yourself.
I can just pull it apart and phase it into the bin.
Have you a solid fuel fire? Could burn most of the frame and just dump the lining and fabric.
Probably not, we have something called central heating over here.
We had the valuation on the new place yesterday and got an email today saying our mortgage has been approved!
Moving in the summer holidays is the dream but it’s looking less and less likely we’ll have the time.
Innit blud. Interesting name for a barrel fire.Probably not, we have something called central heating over here.
Made a right mess of that, didn't you gigs.
I didn’t at all. I just prefer not to have to space it out.
You do call your airing cupboard a hot press though.
I'm a twit
It is a press that’s hot.
Wait, what?
I'm a twit
The fridge they left me was full of dead flies. The little freezer compartment had food in it, six months with no electricity... The contract said they were leaving the fridge, but I can moan about that can't I? It's one thing not cleaning the place, but that must come under actual health hazard.
Post pics of the new house.
Or at least some specs. How many beds/baths are we talking here?
Instructed to sell today.
Lewis, I don't know what the terms are like there, but here when you buy a house there is a clause that requires the house to be move-in ready (i.e., clean, free of all the chattels you did not sign up to keep). I'd look at the agreement of purchase and sale (and document everything with photos as a first step) to see if something similar exists there, because you'd be well within your rights to require them to clean it, even if you've already completed the purchase.
Yeah, the fixtures/fittings contract sez that I would be getting a fridge, and that the seller has to leave the place tidy and remove all rubbish. The fridge is rubbish in the state it is in, so at worst they have to come and remove it, and at best they owe me a fridge. I have asked my solicitor what they think before I go pushing shit through any estate agent doors.
I am all moved in, and I have to admit it feels good just sitting here.
I'll bring the liquor and the hookers, rest easy.
Sure, as soon as that payment goes through ...
Give us a tour then.
You've got 10 days to enjoy it now.
We've just had our pavement laid, and now want a gardener in to sort the grass out. So I called a geezer;
"Do you have Children at the property"
2 kids, yeah.
"... I can come and have a look, but I won't be able to while they're there"
Fuck. Ing. Hell.
I appreciate you sticking to what are very clearly bail / probation conditions, but mate...
Are you giving him the job?
Spikey.
He recommended another bloke.
I won't be using him either.
Get him in for the board, Spikes. Let Trimmy Saville give Yev's rat man a run for his money.
Trimmy Saville
He should rebrand. Let me call him.
I love that he goes around being up front about it.
"Listen, I'd love to do the job, and I can quote a great price. There's just one small problem."
"What?"
"I'm a paedophile."
"You're a paedophile?"
"A paedophile."
"Not an ebedophile?"
"Nope."
"Well..."
"Have you got kids?"
"Erm... yes."
"Well, fella, the choice is yours. Don't say I didn't warn you."
"Fuck it, the price is too good. You've got a deal."
"Thanks, mate. This could really turn my career around."
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