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The "have a look at this!" thread II
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Thanks. I didn't post it as an 'ugly' house, rather a house that has been maintained but without updating and showed the true styles of times passed.0
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I hate to think what their annual fly-tip clearance budget is then :eek:
Possibly not as much as you think as a lot of it occurs on private land falling to the poor old farmer to pay to remove.
Any incentive they do feel to prevent fly tipping they may well see as money well spent though as their costs of disposable and lack of land to deal with it increases.0 -
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-56407387.html
Embrace it or try and cover it up?
Embrace!
Also buy the art work although possible do something about the fireplace. Nice house though 
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Possibly not as much as you think as a lot of it occurs on private land falling to the poor old farmer to pay to remove.
Any incentive they do feel to prevent fly tipping they may well see as money well spent though as their costs of disposable and lack of land to deal with it increases.
It is a good point about the private land and farmers.
Councils shouldn't be sending waste from (DIY) construction to landfill. Most, if not all, can be recycled and/or reused. The contents of many builder's skips is actually taken away and processed to recover re-usable materials, rather than just being dumped. My local council has recycling facilities for timber and plasterboard, but there is no reason why they couldn't have a separate container for other DIY waste to go for sorting, rather than landfill.
That lovely blue toilet would be perfect for crushing for aggregate "In the future, everyone will be rich for 15 minutes"0 -
Red-Squirrel wrote: »I can only think you are looking at the wrong property, or only at the first image of the garden.
Sorrees to disillusion you - I have looked at all the photos:)0 -
moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »Sorrees to disillusion you - I have looked at all the photos:)
Ok.
You're wrong.0 -
Red-Squirrel wrote: »Ok.
You're wrong.
Objective fact?
Nope - a personal opinion compared to another personal opinion. Both of which are equally valid:)0 -
moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »Objective fact?
Nope - a personal opinion compared to another personal opinion. Both of which are equally valid:)
Yeah, not always. Sometimes you can just be wrong about something.
A 200ft garden has never been normal or standard for standard 3 bed semi-detached houses. Ever. I've no idea why you want to claim that it has.0 -
Agree. I would almost never buy a 'modernised' period house, as it is often vulgarised with PVC windows and a white plastic front door, not to mention all the walls knocked down to create an 'open-plan' feel and laminate or concrete flooring, instead of the original wooden one. If I did I would expect a hefty reduction in asking price to enable me to restore it to its former glory.
I do prefer some modernisation, however, such as a bathroom and indoor toilet!
Same here.....we prefer to restore our houses to their former glory
That's why our current house has -
Original 1850s and Arts & Crafts fireplaces, original single-glazed timber windows, original Crittall single-glazed windows, 1920s timber door with decorative hinges, parquet floor added when the house was extended in the early 1920s, several heavily-beamed ceilings, built-in linen press, original oak verandah and other garden features.
In addition we've reinstated some features that had been removed by previous owners, although being built as a cottage ours never had picture rails so we've not changed that.
We wouldn't dream of altering anything in the name of modernisation with the exception of kitchens and bathrooms, although we do these in period style and I confess to being partial to a nice high-level cistern and throne seat, lol!Mortgage-free for fourteen years!
Over £40,000 mis-sold PPI reclaimed0 -
Complete with an "old air age shelter" [sic]
Might be a useful feature with the North Korea situation developing... but not sure the door and roof are up to NBC standards
Our estate agent sent us the draft details for our approval with "Victorian air raid shelter", lol :rotfl:Mortgage-free for fourteen years!
Over £40,000 mis-sold PPI reclaimed0
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