Property Snakes and Ladders; 2009

fc123

Snooze wrote: »

Is your telly broken or is he blind?

Rob

Nope neither.....perhaps it's something to do with the power tools? She seems very confident with power tools and club hammer thingys.

asbokid

bo_drinker wrote: »

Was it just me or did you think Natashas mother looked like the lion off Wizard of Oz

No I can't see any likeness.

Sheesh! You girls are so catty!

John_Pierpoint

"You can't judge a book by looking at its cover
Can you judge a girl by looking at her mother?"

There was a group in SW London with a theme tune that went a bit like that in the 1960's but their name escapes me.

I have a house to sell, that is a smaller detached version of the Battersea house with a much larger garden. At the back there is the usual squashed kitchen on the ground floor poking out into the garden, with a rear bedroom above it.
The obvious thing to do is to extend the kitchen sideways into "the side return" with plenty of light falling into this side extension from the "Velux" type windows in the new lean to roof.; as in the Battersea example!
BUT that means that the whole wall upstairs and half the weight of the roof must be standing on a new beam running the length of the kitchen. In the Battersea example there must be some sort of RSJ running the length of the kitchen, with one end standing on the thin white column next to be bifold doors (all the rage these days it would seem)
Any one got any comments on the cost and techniques involved in slipping a long beam like that under an existing wall?

Turning to Leatherhead; the lioness and her cub, are now living in a bungalow with a rear extension with an impressive opened-up loft.
My limited knowledge of building roofs says you must make triangles out of the woodwork to tie in the bottom of the common rafters (the two carrying the tiles), in order to stop the roof spreading (ie the sloping rafters pushing the walls over as they try to "do the splits").
The big room at Learherhead has one tie sideways across the centre of the room.
Here again has anyone any comments on how the "cathederal" effect is obtained and how much it costs? Does one have to build steel rectangles and lay them on the top of the walls before standing the pairs of rafters on that frame?

John

(Must go and take a cold shower, or I might be tempted to have a go myself;))

PasturesNew

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

"You can't judge a book by looking at its cover
Can you judge a girl by looking at her mother?"

The Monkees http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ltLBCUVZUg
The Yardbirds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afCYkRJt9Cc&feature=related
Bo Diddley - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ixaXBWtyc&feature=related (really old!)

John_Pierpoint

Well how is that for getting right off topic:D

Thanks for the memory jogger PN - I've just had a Googlefest of memories from the R&B boom..
No it was not the Yardbirds, they took over from the Stones at the Rugby club.
Nor was it John Mayll.
I was half remembering a couple of "gigs" with that next tier down band called "The Pretty Things", the name itself being a tribute Bo Diddley.
Those were the days: such a crush that short people had no chance of seeing anything - but that was all right, if you were "petite and speshul" some big bloke like me would put you on his shoulders. Even though you would then be blocking the view of those further back as long as you had suitable hair and could make "head banging" movements in time with the beat up there in the cigarette smoke; that all added to the atmosphere.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/bo-diddley-pioneer-of-rocknroll-838902.html
Happy "innocent" days.

My potential "Grand Design" is near Hampton Court - two towns up stream from Richmond.

safe

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

The big room at Learherhead has one tie sideways across the centre of the room.
Here again has anyone any comments on how the "cathederal" effect is obtained and how much it costs? Does one have to build steel rectangles and lay them on the top of the walls before standing the pairs of rafters on that frame?

They’ll probably have put in a steel ridge beam (structural ridge) if there are no ties between the rafters. The associated costs with solid insulation, plastering, and roof windows would probably put the price about 3-4k over a conventional roof if it were about 4/5 meters long and you had a couple of roof windows. It’s pretty easy to do really. If you do this to your own house make sure you have roof windows in the ceiling or some kind of decorative truss in the void otherwise it’ll look crap. I’ve seen it done a few times without any focal points and you look at them and think ‘that’s a big blank wall, could do with a few pictures’.

GracieP

The Guardian Guide has PS&L as it's pick of the day for Tuesday and the description of the show ends with;

Grim stuff, and you'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh like a drain.

John_Pierpoint

Presumably they would find it evern grimmer if they did not benefit from the "product placement" discounts from suppliers, keen to get their fancy stuff on the box?

poppy10_2

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Presumably they would find it evern grimmer if they did not benefit from the "product placement" discounts from suppliers, keen to get their fancy stuff on the box?

Yep, the Chiswick house guy said he got discounts of up to 50% on the goods he bought from the suppliers, but on the show they use they made him use the full retail price when calculating the costs of the development.

mewbie_2

Bump! Oh yes, a bear fest again I hope. Schadenfreude rules.

What? Sympathy? After ten years of property !!!!!!, and people laughing at rent forever losers? If you haven't mewed your equity and invested in BTL there must be something wrong with you? Or ripped the guts out of a house, upset the neghbours and created a monstrosity.

Nah, no sympathy. This is my moment.