Our first family home

gallygirl

Hope it all goes well for you!

FamilyLife

Thank you Mouche and Gallygirl

The plumber has said that the water tank needs replaced and the electrics are shot which is why the boiler won't turn on. He can't do the job, it should be a heating engineer. We contacted our lawyer who said the seller is responsible for the repairs so hopefully we won't be paying anything. It could take a while though. We're staying with my sister for a while which is nice because she has a 2 month old baby who is a wee gem! Would love to be in the house though!

FL xx

Muser1

Oh no these things are sent to try us! Congratulations on the house I'm sure it will all get sorted and you will be happily settled very soon all ready for baby. Perhaps let oh win on the carpets :rotfl:

Lots of luck! x

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Hello,

Good news that the seller will have to pay for the repairs but a shame you can't move in. I think you should go for nice new clean carpets with a nice new baby coming.. I am very envious. This is a wonderfully exciting stage of your life and I wish you all the best,

Squirrel

greent

Hope it all gets sorted soon and that you can be in there asap, ready for your new arrival xx

RunningGirl

Oh dear FL - hope you get it sorted soon and you can start enjoying your new home.

RG x

t-rexcellent

Hi FL,

Congratulations on the house and best of luck for your new arrival - hope all goes well!

Moving into a new house is a very expensive business, we started off with the best of intentions to OP straight away but as we spent more time in our new pad the more we realised needs doing! Hope the plumber gets things sorted and you can move in soon.

You soon realise what is essential and what isn't - we had to sort out some damp but we still have bare floorboards and half-stripped wood all over the house as it's fine for now! Reassuring and worrying at the same time at how quickly you just accept how things are :rotfl:

Looking forward to following your journey and hearing your baby-walking money saving tales!

FamilyLife

Thanks everyone!

We got the wifi connected today so I am now reconnected to the outside world It's amazing how much you miss internet!

We have another boiler engineer in the house at the moment. We've had a couple of assessments done and it seems that to patch it up the seller will be paying £1500- £1800 whereas to rehaul the system with a new, more efficient, combi boiler we're talking £3200-£3600 so we'd have to pay the excess. With a new boiler they'd have to lay new, wider gas pipes which is why it will cost so much. We've tried to get in touch with the lawyer, to arrange paying the extra, but he is out of the office till Tuesday. It's supposed to snow on Monday!

FL xx

glitterjunkie

Hi family life. .. boo to the boiler trouble, what a trying time for you! difficult decision re. Patch up old boiler or get new one - can the boiler repair man give you an estimate of how long a new one would take to pay for itself with decreased energy bills? Xx

FamilyLife

Hi GlitterJunkie,

Basically the 2 engineers who last looked at it said its a combi boiler rigged to work as a system boiler, the hot water tank is leaking and so is the boiler itself. The electrics to the boiler are also shot. So while they can patch it up it will be a 'thorn in our side' and neither of them wanted to do any repairs. So while the new boiler will save us money in heating more efficiently it'll also cost us less in repairs. So we'll be paying roughly £1500 but I think it will be worth it. Also, we get to lose a hot water tank so gain a cupboard

If all goes well we should have the work done on Wednesday. I will be 38 weeks on Tuesday so the timing is ok.

The original engineer wants to come out on Monday to give an official price so I'm a little worried it will have gone up. Especially as husband told him the 2nd quote was, 'much higher than his'. He got a big scowl for that and was then very apologetic! However, I dropped his Samsung S4 in a big puddle the other night and he was very understanding about that! I blame pregnancy

Hope everyone is well. I'm going to catch up on diaries for the next hour or so

FL xx