Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

lemonjelly

Spirit wrote: »

Where is Pastures? We need her to fill this in for NP as a sort of independent assessor.

http://poshtest.com/test/index.php

If we do it ourselves we may not tell the truth.

You are 17% Posh!:D
arm frum the black country, ay i?

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

ahem...


well said nikks!;)


Off another forum I go on, a different NP offered me their ticket for a football match whilst on holiday. Went with his friend (who I've met before) & his step daughter.
She was a delight. Friendly, polite, excellent manners, & a happy person. She also goes to my old school, so we had plenty to chat about.
It was lovely having a cracking conversation with a young nice person. Young people & kids get loads of bad press, & it is nice to be reminded that the majority are good people.

Oh, ok, I'll PM you details LJ . .


The majority of people are ok really. We all have flaws. The nice kids represent their generation well, certainly.

lemonjelly

Nikkster wrote: »

I thought the ballcock stopped the toilet filling up?

I think I do have 2 stopcocks - one just past the driveway (where the meter was installed) and one under the sink behind a stupid stuck cupboard back. And a decoy which is to do with the boiler.

Too many cocks! Though I think I might need another one to fix the problems

:rotfl:
NIKKSTER!!!!

michaels wrote: »

A disappointing 17%, but as long as I get under PN I'll be happy.

It's just double entendre day here on the NP thread...

edit - seems pretty much everyone beat me to it...

lemonjelly

Initial thoughts anyone?

lostinrates

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chewmylegoff

Looks good jelly, presumably you'll keep the carpets!!. I'm not sure what's going on in picture 14 - looks like someone has tried to build a son of star wars missile defence system in the garage.

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Looks good jelly, presumably you'll keep the carpets!!. I'm not sure what's going on in picture 14 - looks like someone has tried to build a son of star wars missile defence system in the garage.

Yes it'd be fine for a Bond villain and less easy to be tracked down than a hollowed=-out volcano. It's a good-looking house.

I must have been living darn sarf too long. Everything about this building seems huge. A Londoner might get agoraphobia living in there.

vivatifosi

I really like it jelly. I don't know the area at all, so have no idea about that, but the outside looks sound (well as sound as it can look from a picture) and it looks as though money has already been spent on those parts of the house that would be most expensive to do (kitchen, bathroom, exterior render etc). The rest is a blank canvas.

I like the plot size too. If the little building at the bottom of the garden is included, that's interesting too. That could function as an office.

An Eos would look very nice in the garage too.

Interesting to look at the price. As it sits right on the stamp duty threshold, I wonder if that's why it hasn't been done up further. Have other houses in the area drifted up to that ceiling but not breached it yet?

michaels

lemonjelly wrote: »

It's just double entendre day here on the NP thread...

edit - seems pretty much everyone beat me to it...

I write a perfectly innocent comment about how PN is generally the least posh person around and how I hope to be similar to her in this respect (if I were to buy jewellery it might well be from Argos so perhaps I could reduce my score further?) and all your filthy minds start seeing other meanings

lemonjelly wrote: »

Initial thoughts anyone?

The bathroom set up suggests student house but it looks like the shower room would be big enough to make into a family bathroom and one of the bedroom sis big enough to add an ensuite. Big garden means it looks like there is plenty of scope to extend ground floor at the rear to add utlity and family sized kitchne/diner.

LydiaJ

Spirit wrote: »

"Red top" refers to tabloid newspapers. Usually heavy on pictures, have a 'red top' The Sun rather than the compact versions of broadsheets.

Ahhh! Thanks Spirit.

SingleSue wrote: »

My parents lived through it too and for them there was only snail mail. Dad used to return mum's letters with her spelling mistakes highlighted and corrected!

She must not have minded too much, in June this year they will celebrate 54 years of marriage.

My parents also only had snail mail, and I'm not sure whether they even sent their letters airmail or by sea. They had over 55 years of happy marriage until Mum died a couple of years ago.

michaels wrote: »

The bathroom set up suggests student house but it looks like the shower room would be big enough to make into a family bathroom and one of the bedroom sis big enough to add an ensuite. Big garden means it looks like there is plenty of scope to extend ground floor at the rear to add utlity and family sized kitchne/diner.

Lovely lovely house. You wouldn't get that for that price here, let alone in crazy-HP-London. What's the area like? Is it somewhere you'd like to live?

The big downside of the place is that the bathroom set up is inadequate for the size of the house - 4 double bedrooms and a big garden, but only one loo, one shower, and no bath? Although if you moved in by yourself, you could easily manage for however long it took until you were able to afford to do something about that. I'm definitely a fan of the "buy the house, do only the crucial structural things and live in it as is, and save up for doing the house up later" strategy.

Are you feeling that now is a good time for you to buy? Some of the rest of us have put the ups and downs of our house buying sagas on here, but I can't recall anything that you've said about your own plans. If you're planning to buy and you can afford it, either buy now and make the most of the low interest rates by overpaying, or keep saving for a bigger deposit while you wait for the perfect house to come on this sluggish market.

Ooops! That was dangerously on topic. Sorry.