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moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »Add that I can see a standard size garden - but I can't see a "plot" (ie large area for foodgrowing - and as an extra to a "garden" as such). When someone says "ecohouse" I'm expecting to see a very quirky place made of strawbales, etc - not just a few solar panels on the roof (so far - so pretty standard).
As for the price - I thought Swansea isn't supposed to be that great a part of Wales?
I don't think eco houses need a food growing area, but you'd expect things like grey water re-use, rainwater harvesting or ground source heat. Wood burners are merely carbon-neutral.
Solar panels aren't that eco when the public are paying through the nose for them. As I said, my local council was an early adopter and stuck them on all their old folks' bungalows in our village. Yes, the oldies get cheap leccy, but the rest of us pay the council something like 40p a kW.
Got to admire their foresight though! :undecidedShowing 337,500 when I visit? Still a lot more than I'd pay
You're right. I think I was just having a senior lunch hour.0 -
pollyanna24 wrote: »http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54243232.html
Here's another one in the same area with hardly any windows. They look awful.
Such ugly looking houses.
I looks like it has a few windows at the back but the front looks hideous. No kerb appeal.Debt 30k in 2008.:eek::o Cleared all my debt in 2013 and loving being debt free
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Nice and obvious spot the EA. Not sure who the little girl next to him is though.
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pollyanna24 wrote: »http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-56409085.html
There's no windows at the front. Is it just me or is this a little strange? It's not the only house like this in the area when I looked it up.
I've seen houses with windows at one side, but they were duplexes built into a slope so there was only a view on one side.
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I remember driving through as housing estate outside Edinburgh that had similar houses with tiny windows at the front and big windows at the back. I always figured it was to do with energy saving somehow. Couldn't pay me to live in one of them.0
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The whole pent roof thing went big in the 1970s.
In Bath, where I lived then, new properties like that caused a bit of a kerfuffle:
We called them the 'chicken houses.'
They had a great view, but they did little for those of others.0 -
£375k !!!!:eek: Whoops! Actually £337k...dyslexia rules, KO!
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This seems a tad expensive for a poky 2 bed shed, albeit in the Gower. I wasn't aware that Swansea had its own eco-Jaywick, so this is a surprise!
Not too much eco-babble, though. It seems to boil down to a few solar panels which even the council's old folks' bungalows have in my village.
Oh, and there's a wood burner......sorry, I'll read that again....was a wood burner, although the flue looks like it won't meet regs.
Paying close attention to the 'unique finish' I noted a bit of damp and evidence of the 'ongoing development project,' otherwise known as "can't be @rsed to finish it."
Pennard is a very pleasant location; I've rented a holiday house there, but I didn't see anything like this, which looks like it's not alone on the aerial and Street View.
I'm wondering how "eco" is a laminate floor?0 -
This house apparently has fuel bills under £100 a year:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-44509923.html
And this one has a nice green sofa in the garden:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-44810445.html0 -
Bit of everything here... carpets and matching walls, concrete gardens. No hidden cats or EAs, but hey ho - can't have it all!
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-45011613.html0 -
Bit of everything here... carpets and matching walls, concrete gardens. No hidden cats or EAs, but hey ho - can't have it all!
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-45011613.html
My biggest question there would be as to why a section of the garden is boxed-around (ie the fence having been done in a way that the garden looks L-shaped when it isn't).
A land-grabber neighbour maybe? If so - it's got to be one of the most blatant bits of land-grabbing I've seen yet...0
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