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House needs lots of work

Emmylou_2 · 2014-12-25 23:45:41

DH and I are in the wonderful position of his parents giving us his inheritance early so we can get on the property ladder (without a mortgage). We have had an offer accepted on a 4-bed stone built property which last had work done to it in the 70s (downstairs loo is green, upstairs bathroom is pink, there's a blue basin…

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Emmylou_2 Posts: 1,049 Forumite

12 January 2015 at 10:50PM

Thanks...this is why we went for a damp surveyor rather than a contractor who would have a vested interest in selling us something whether we needed it or not! He thinks the issue is that the cellar isn't tanked properly and the guttering is shot (basically nothing's been done to the house in 40 years and when it was rewired back then they didn't use lime mortar) so once we're dry and water tight we should be OK. It has a slate damp course so that's good.

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