70's house, with tile/wooden cladding

DilbertJones

Is there anything about this type of construction I should be wary of?

A bit like this one
Clicky

Now this isnt the property I am interested in, and its on a different city all together, but are there any drawbacks in this type of construction? The whole estate has got this or white boards (Wooden I think)

sirmosh

Not any drawbacks I'm aware of other than not maintaining it means it'll look horrible. I don't think it's very expensive to replace or remove if you really don't like it. Friends of mine replaced tiling with PVC cladding and I think it cost something like £15 a square metre.

ognum

I have a property like this, it has tle cladding, some of the properties in the street have wooden cladding, this is on upper floor only.

I have a full structural survey that came back with no problems.

If the property for sale had been wood clad I probably would not have bought as I don't want the up keep of painting and repairing the cladding.

I would not remove the tiles I think they are iconic of the era, why buy something which has lasted and is serviceable and then remove it.

sirmosh

ognum wrote: »

I would not remove the tiles I think they are iconic of the era, why buy something which has lasted and is serviceable and then remove it.

Fair enough if you like it but many people do all they can to modernise these 60s/70s properties. While older houses have plenty of charm I'm not sure most post war housing will ever be in fashion.

ognum

sirmosh wrote: »

Fair enough if you like it but many people do all they can to modernise these 60s/70s properties. While older houses have plenty of charm I'm not sure most post war housing will ever be in fashion.

Well it is interesting how fashions go, many people ripped out or covered parquet floors and got rid of teak sideboards, who would have thought they would come back in retro vogue!

DilbertJones

Yeah, i'm not sure how much I like it really..... Wife certainly isn't keen so its a no go anyway!!

makeyourdaddyproud

The house we are buying is a 6 bed Edwardian that needs a frightening amount of work: it has parquet flooring atop floorboards in several rooms. I'm going to rip them out as fast as I can, though someone told me they have resell value - can anyone confirm this?

SternMusik

makeyourdaddyproud wrote: »

The house we are buying is a 6 bed Edwardian that needs a frightening amount of work: it has parquet flooring atop floorboards in several rooms. I'm going to rip them out as fast as I can, though someone told me they have resell value - can anyone confirm this?

Why do you want to rip it out?? Parquet flooring is absolutely gorgeous! I'd love to have it in my house but can't justify the expense.

I know someone who bought reclaimed parquet to put in their house, so there is a market for it.

phoebe1989seb

SternMusik wrote: »

Why do you want to rip it out?? Parquet flooring is absolutely gorgeous! I'd love to have it in my house but can't justify the expense.

I know someone who bought reclaimed parquet to put in their house, so there is a market for it.

^^^^^ This ^^^^^

Strapped

makeyourdaddyproud wrote: »

The house we are buying is a 6 bed Edwardian that needs a frightening amount of work: it has parquet flooring atop floorboards in several rooms. I'm going to rip them out as fast as I can, though someone told me they have resell value - can anyone confirm this?

I rather suspect that myself or phoebe would happily come and save you the "chore" of removing them if it meant we could have them ;-)

Strapped

And to answer the OP, my first house was like this, no problems other than maintenance (coat of wood preserver). I actually quite like the look