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nice one. any more pics to update us then? what is it you're having done again? if i can remember rightly i think it was the kitchen you were having ripped out and decorating the whole downstairs?

get over yourself mate and give them the access. no one is going to get injured in walking across your back garden. sorry if i'm coming across blase about it all...

this part particularly made me laugh

They also need to answer the question of who is liable if someone is injured on my land.

i'm now imaging you having a big sprawling estate....

i think you're being harsh. maybe the gardener could do them a good deal at short notice and they are just really keen to have it done? if you get along well with them and they said they will make sure you're not too inconvenienced and that any damage will be sorted then to me it sounds like you're just being a bit difficult. if it was my neighbour i'd let them.

no just a mid terrace

party wall got agreed on wed night so i gave the builder the go ahead on thurs morning.
by fri they'd ripped out the old loft, errected the scaffolding front and back. on sat 10 blokes came round and they man handled the rsj's up the scaffolding which was a terrific sight. proper old school hard graft.
they also took delivery of all the raw materials and set the pad stones. they are working at one hell of a pace.

true, but if the chimney has been removed for some time (and initially wasn't done with building regs approval) i'm sure its fair to assume that it won't just randomly collapse....will it?

the vendor can actually take out an indemnity policy and give that to the buyer. that's what happened to me. did a bodge job like princeperch and i bought it 'warts and all'

sorted the builder for the loft conversion.
steels arrive on fri.
work begins today.

^^^ those pics are terrible. are you using an original nokia 3210 or something still?

15k on a kitchen? banker alert....watch your back son

got into london last year but deferred as i knackered my knee. had great plans for a decent run this year and was running in december but had a mental january then got lumbered with an exam to do for work so have only just had time to do any training. i can't defer my entry another year so i'm forced to run it this year. it won't be pretty.
did 7m last fri and will do 7m tonight. and that leaves 7 weeks till the event.
wish me luck!

walthamstow is the best place to live. period

don't do spiral staircase tom unless you literally have to. they save space but would be a nightmare from a furniture point of view.

trying to get the loft converted and need party wall agreement with both neighbours (we are mid terrace). both sides are great neighbours (we've only been there for a month and already get along real well) however it's really sad to say that both sides are tenants and not owner occupiers. this means dreaded party wall stuff where i have to get the legal owners to give consent otherwise i won't be allowed to do the conversion legally.

real shame as both neighbours have agreed for me to carry out the works but in the great scheme of things that doesn't really matter as they don't have the over riding say. now if both landlords want an independent surveyor to come round and do a survey this could realistically cost me over 1k each side. one side is owned by the council so they will without doubt be difficult about this.

a guy across the road got his party wall agreed within minutes with his respective neighbours. just seems it's going to drag on and on for me now :-(

don't suppose anyone has experience of the complexities surrounding party wall stuff? especially when it involves council properties?

i'm not holding my breath....

lidl has plenty

i was with my totally unprepared mate when i was helping him look for properties. he was keen to make an offer and i was like 'mate you aren't in a position to offer, but lets see if we can pull a fast one and get the agent to put the offer in front of the vendor and see where we stand'. basically he lied and started going down a whole rabbit hole of lies 'i could go back to my flat in camden now and get the AIP but i have to be somewhere this afternoon blah blah' in the hope that the agent would put the offer forward. the agent told him to poke it (quite rightly).

on the other hand i managed to get an offer accepted without the agent seeing my AIP (i didn't have one as was doing a complex remortgage deal but told him enough to convince him i had the money). anyway i dragged the vendor along for about 3 weeks saying i was chasing my solicitors, doing this and doing that with no intention of buying it. it wasn't obviously nice but i had fallen out with the vendor previously (long story).

in a nutshell get your finances sorted first so you can move quick.

mate i think you'll find a lot of vendors stipulate that they won't entertain offers from people if they aren't able to show the colour of their money. anyone can start throwing offers around, but if you want to be taken seriously, get an AIP first. most reputable agents (basically non of them then) require AIP first.

some estate agents won't even entertain your offer unless you have an AIP. trust me i've sat with my mate and the estate agent was like 'look mate we need to protect the vendor and have had too many chancers turn up and not able to proceed'. so yeh get the AIP then go window shopping.

congrats magpie. why didn't you just agree a completion date that coincided with the end of your rental contract so that there was no overlap? or did you try this and it was a no go?

well done senor bear, hopefully all the stress is over with now! get ready for the issues with snagging...

^ such a hypocrite. talks about her poor nephew not being able to get on the ladder whilst she's having a play with jumping on the BTL bandwagon in London as well.

thanks for the feedback guys, i may even post before and after pics!

really upsetting hearing this, especially when its such an experienced cyclist. condolences to his family. such awful news.

^ i thought the walkie talkie building looked great as sky scrapers go. plus the 'park' at the top is really well done.

anyway, anyone have experience with replacing mortice and simple yale barrel chamber locks? basically i have a mate who is used to be a locksmith and would help out but would ideally like to have a go myself if it's not something too difficult to do.

the vendor didn't give me all the keys when we moved in (just gave me 2!) and a couple of days later some random turned up and put a load of keys through the door, so for piece of mind think it's best to get the locks changed.

completed on friday and eventually picked up keys (just 2 keys) sometime after 2pm. seeing as though i only had the van till 5.30pm it was a race against time to get the stuff in and do as many loads as possible. (managed 2!).
opened the door and was relieved to see the pipe work still intact so luckily the poles hadn't run off with it. i thought it was all too good to be true, but soon realised it wasn't when the vendor didn't give the estate agents the key to the back door so i had that faff to still deal with. 2 days later some random bloke drops a bunch of keys round and one of them is the back door.

if anyone is planning on buying in walthamstow area stay well clear of central estate agents. they are a complete bunch of useless cunts.

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oh and the estate agent still doens't have the keys and we're due to complete tomorrow. is this normal? they were like 'i don't know what you're worrying about maaaaaaate'.
please avoid 'central estates' in walthamstow like the plague. absolute cunts