Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

andrewf75

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I can imagine what 1,000 sq feet is, but not the same in metres without a quick mental conversion.

Similarly if someone says they are 1.9 metres tall and 50kg, I need to translate that to make sense of it. (I think that's what OH is).

Well I'd be the same with that just can't do square feet for houses. Builders work in metres anyway

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I have a fleece, and also a "proper" winter coat, that I absolutely adore. I bought it 3 years ago, and it still looks like new - I loved it, thought it was too expensive, and OH bullied me into buying it, and I'm very glad he did. It's a cream, Phase 8 mock sheepskin coat, and perfectly smart enough for work. And very warm.

By the end of this winter, though, I won't be able to do it up. :eek: I can already see the future need for new work clothes, which is a major league PITA. My work trousers fit differently already - tighter round the front, but looser round the ar5e, as I can't eat and be pregnant at the same time.

My sister ended both her pregnancies lighter, but without the horrid side process you are suffering, you poor lamb, to get there, she just didn't increase what she ate.

Yorkie1

PasturesNew wrote: »

Question for NPs - how big are your kitchens and bathrooms?

Bathroom 5'10 x 5'6.

Kitchen 5'10 wide; on one of these sides it's about 8' long (with an archway to enter the kitchen taking up all the space except the depth of the sink and a fridge freezer) and on the opposite side it's about 10'6 long.

vivatifosi wrote: »

Very true. It is a matter of saving and making do. You can furnish a house from a combination of freecycle, local charity shops, auctions and gifts of second hand items from people you know. Cheap tins of paint can put most other things right. It is only shockingly bad kitchens and bathrooms that can't so easily be rectified on the cheap. ETA oh and things like the central heating system, so it is worth getting that and electrics checked.

I agree. Freecycle is a real bonus until you get funds / decisions to choose your own from scratch. I slept on a very old bed donated by a kind friend when I moved into my unfurnished property. And still have an old TV from my parents now I've bought a place.

PasturesNew wrote: »

... Bizarrely, it only completed its last sale in July this year. Strange that somebody would buy a house and have it for sale again within a couple of months.

You do need to be a bit careful with properties that have been on the market fewer than 6 months if you're buying with a mortgage, as lenders often won't lend in this situation.

Yorkie1

How did the JR go at court today, NDG?

Did the judge do the right thing and kick the other side into touch for driving a pack of coaches and horses through the rules?

michaels

PN box sorted

neverdespairgirl

Yorkie1 wrote: »

How did the JR go at court today, NDG?

Did the judge do the right thing and kick the other side into touch for driving a pack of coaches and horses through the rules?

Semi kicked in to touch. As in, ranted at them a bit, and adjourned - until 2pm! To give me that whole extra morning to prepare. :mad:

So we went ahead. Nothing actually went wrong, fortunately, but it's not much fun doing a hearing where you feel you'd rather have done more work, it all feels a bit like building on shifting sands.

silvercar

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

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Similarly if someone says they are 1.9 metres tall and 50kg, I need to translate that to make sense of it. (I think that's what OH is).

6 foot 3 inches and under 8 stone??

LydiaJ

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

For example, this is the cheapest 3 bed flat for sale in EC1 at the moment, and it has a floor plan showing measurements and total floor area (767 sq feet)

http://www.primelocation.com/for-sale/details/30266254?search_identifier=98b397d5f998c11e85ab7895e04adb44

Round here, the sort of EA whose cheapest property is over £400k would also do a proper floor plan for every property. It's the EAs with lots of properties sub £300k who don't bother.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've seen rooms without doors too.... they worked out how to draw walls, but not how to erase a bit where a door is.

And, not to scale - it's amazing how some 2-bed house plans make it look big, yet the two beds ate 8'x7' ....then the next one looks pokey, yet the rooms are really 10'x8'.

But, I still appreciate "a rough idea", no matter how amateurish as it can be a way to dismiss them completely. /

Absolutely. I want to know how the rooms connect with each other and with the outside.

Wheezy wrote: »

How long you've been looking then?
We started looking late 2008, offer accepted August 2009 and completed in October. And it's not the perfect house, but to use an another awful cliche, it ticked most of the boxes. And we were getting fed up with house hunting also.

I started pre-looking in spring 2009, I think - by which I mean looking on RM in preparation for when I thought I would be ready to buy. I started looking properly at Christmas 2009, offer accepted Octoberish, IIRC, and completed end of Jan. It ticked all the boxes but one.

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

6 foot 3 inches and under 8 stone??

That is exactly what i was thinking but too polite to say so....

neverdespairgirl

silvercar wrote: »

6 foot 3 inches and under 8 stone??

Um. No. OH has less height than that (he's 6 ft 1) and definitely weighs more than 8 stone. He's slim but not skeletal! That was me being half-witted, then.