"Homeowners" who can't afford to be "homeowners"

PasturesNew

pineapplefool wrote: »

Luckily, a new roof lasts well over 50 years - possibly 100 - so it isn't a regular occurance.

The roof on my house lasted 130 years.... unfortunately I bought it when it was 126 years old

Had the little man round doing what he could when the big winds came, but the lead in the valley alone he quoted at £400 to sort out ... and really by now I'd have had to get a new roof.

Fang_3

Thermidor wrote: »

So if it was dripping taps what was it? You're telling me you had 100 jobs in the house that needed fixing? I don't believe you.

By the way, £30 to repair a boiler is very cheap! I also don't believe you went 6 months without heating or hot water all for the sake of £200. You're cuckoo old chap. Totally cuckoo.

So are you if you think winter lasts for six months.

Fang_3

I'd rather pay to build my own house. At least then I know what I'm paying for and getting exactly what I planned, and then hopefully that would mean easier maintenance tasks to keep on top of.

I don't understand people who buy a house and assume that it will just keep itself up.

nearlynew

Fang wrote: »

I'd rather pay to build my own house. At least then I know what I'm paying for and getting exactly what I planned, and then hopefully that would mean easier maintenance tasks to keep on top of.

I don't understand people who buy a house and assume that it will just keep itself up.

A house, left to itself and without any maintenance, will deteriorate and actually lose value.


It is only the land it stands on which is actually worth anything.

olly300

Thermidor wrote: »

Maybe you'd be better just renting a council property for the rest of your days? Problem solved. After all, if you can't be bothered to brush a pot of varnish on a fence every 5 years you must have what's called 'council house mentality'.

Learn to read properly and understand what other people write before posting. In my post I was answering another poster who thought new properties where maintenance free, which was why I quoted them.

PasturesNew

Thermidor wrote: »

By the way, £30 to repair a boiler is very cheap! I also don't believe you went 6 months without heating or hot water all for the sake of £200. You're cuckoo old chap. Totally cuckoo.

The £30 was some board, the bloke who came round said they always do that and he knew which bit it was (apparently they fit those boilers into council houses and he used to have a contract doing a lot of them until, he said, they scrapped the boilers and changed manufacturers).

I didn't have £200. I am not sure which bit of "people not having money" you don't understand, but when you are single, and don't have the money coming in ... you don't have the money. End of. £200 was a LOT to me then. And I simply didn't have it.

I had to go without heating/hot water, because there was none. I was brought up in a house with no heating so it wasn't too much of a problem. For hot water it was kettles for washing up ... and quick cold baths, then once a week at somebody else's.

Doctor_Gloom

Thermidor wrote: »

You're cuckoo old chap. Totally cuckoo.

Hi pickledpink=thermidor=breadlinebetty=honeypooper=pineapplefool, etc.
Are you on the wind-up again?

seven-day-weekend

Some friends of mine also had a boiler that stopped working and they too could not afford to have it fixed as they had just lost their jobs and spent their savings. They went a year without hot water/heating until the guy found a job. Then they called out a gas fitter, who turned the pilot light back on.......:o






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Thermidor

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seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Some friends of mine also had a boiler that stopped working and they too could not afford to have it fixed as they had just lost their jobs and spent their savings. They went a year without hot water/heating until the guy found a job. Then they called out a gas fitter, who turned the pilot light back on.......:o






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:rotfl: Oh dear

Thermidor

PasturesNew wrote: »

The £30 was some board, the bloke who came round said they always do that and he knew which bit it was (apparently they fit those boilers into council houses and he used to have a contract doing a lot of them until, he said, they scrapped the boilers and changed manufacturers).

I didn't have £200. I am not sure which bit of "people not having money" you don't understand, but when you are single, and don't have the money coming in ... you don't have the money. End of. £200 was a LOT to me then. And I simply didn't have it.

I had to go without heating/hot water, because there was none. I was brought up in a house with no heating so it wasn't too much of a problem. For hot water it was kettles for washing up ... and quick cold baths, then once a week at somebody else's.

Well if you were used to cold water and no heating it was no hardship was it/ What you moaning for?

By the way, one detects a different tone in your post......have you forgotten who you are? Your PN. You're posting as Pastures New.......you're slipping old chap.