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ajmoney

edinburgher wrote: »

It felt like home the first time we saw it SHS, that's why we bought it

I was on a break from house hunting when I found my first house, the sort of break where you say you will wait until after Christmas but keep looking online anyway! We saw the house before the details had been published and while the estate agent showed us around there was an awful stench of burnt carrots from a rather dry slow cooker and the house was full of cats and therefore the hair/fur that comes with them. I wasn't at all keen downstairs but something strange happened...by the time I had walked upstairs I knew I had to have it. The day after I moved in my mum said then same, she wasn't sure why I liked it but the upstairs had changed her mind. It was probably the quaint sloping ceilings and stained floor boards in my bedroom but I will never know. We kind of had the same experience with this house and we don't plan to leave it.

Glad things are going well for you Ed, I am reading even if I am not finding enough time to post.

edinburgher

Karmacat wrote: »

You will, Ed, if anyone gets there, it'll be you.

Speaking of illiquid, I've just remembered a little set of shares I'd completely forgotten in my "list of assets" - 300 wind farm shares, that started to pay dividends, but have stopped. Must investigate what happened....

Thanks KC. If you're a fan of investing in renewable energy, do not look at the savings and investments boards where I told someone to avoid community solar

Glad things are going well for you Ed, I am reading even if I am not finding enough time to post.

Nice to 'see' you AJM, things are busy all over at the moment, eh? Ps. Did you get to keep a cat?

New boiler has been fitted.

The good

We have a fantastic Vaillant boiler with a 7 year warranty and a fancy wireless thermostat. We now get hot water in a matter of seconds and it no longer sounds like a skeleton dancing in DD's room whenever the taps or the central heating go on :j

The bad

Kitchen was left *very* messy (perhaps unavoidable), installers used DD's £6/roll biodegradable nappy liners in lieu of kitchen roll (that we had lots of), a few muddy footprints and the shower now leaks steadily because of the increased pressure. In addition, they need to come back as they ran out of cement while securing the old flue.

The ugly

Installers broke one of the hinges on a cupboard door, but never realised/didn't bother their !!!!!! to mention it, they have also failed to relay the lino in the cupboard where they cut the hatch for the new pipes.

Might sound like nags, but we've paid over £2k to have it fitted :mad:

Ordered a new A rated oven for the kitchen. It has nice features including LED internal lights (GG), several programs and a steam cleaning function. Will be delivered a week on Saturday and I'll need to wire it in (and take the old one to the tip).

Nackered, but happy and positive despite our current challenges :beer:

ajmoney

edinburgher wrote: »

Nice to 'see' you AJM, things are busy all over at the moment, eh? Ps. Did you get to keep a cat?

No. I think the previous owner used to let all the cats come in through the kitchen window, for a long time if we had the window open other cats would come in. We ended up having to get one of the cat sonar thingys until it stopped being a natural path to our kitchen!

Hollyboll

Ed - you do not sound like nags, on the contrary.
Hope the fitters sort the shower (and the other bits!) when they return.

Oven sounds great - I'm loving the idea of a steam cleaning function
GG won't be interested in the internal light though - there is some point to being able to see inside an OVEN :rotfl:

Karmacat

edinburgher wrote: »

Thanks KC. If you're a fan of investing in renewable energy, do not look at the savings and investments boards where I told someone to avoid community solar

You just *know* I'm going to look at that now My local community energy peeps have been pushing investment into them, and I did already decide against it, for a couple of me-focussed reasons. These Wind Fund investments - I bought them many years ago, when I had a *lot* of dosh to throw about, and I regarded them as a sort of charitable donation really. Shocked me to the core when I started get dividend cheques, even tiny as they were :rotfl:

hiddenshadow

Hope the installers come sort everything out!

We got an oven this year that does pyrolytic cleaning and it's pretty amazing (for nerds like us). It prompts you when it wants to be cleaned, you start the cycle, and then you magically* have a shiny oven a while later!

*Magic being the "sufficiently advanced technology" variety rather than the swords & spells variety.

edinburgher

I wanted a pyrolytic oven, but there was only one available that would have fitted our integrated unit space. Unfortunately it was a Sm3g, couldn't justify the extra £200 vs. steam cleaning. Anyway, steam cleaning is probably pretty green, justify justify :rotfl:

gallygirl

edinburgher wrote: »

Ordered a new A rated oven for the kitchen. It has nice features including LED internal lights (GG)

Hollyboll wrote: »

GG won't be interested in the internal light though - there is some point to being able to see inside an OVEN :rotfl:

Don't be so sure Hollyboll - I used my inherited tumble drier today with no internal light so I'll take my thrills where I can :rotfl:.

smallholdingsister

Haha Gally. Ed hope they put it right.

edinburgher

Today was a bit spendy like. TV, blender, £200+ on lights :eek:

TV replaces our 7-8 year old one, current one will be going to live in the countryside. Not quite on a farm, but next door to one!