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A little tip for buyers...
sebadee
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When you see somewhere you like and come back home, go to google maps and put in your post code or address and find the house. You can normally spot it easy enough.
Once you have found it, keep it on the top down perspective (not streetview).
12 o'clock / up in your web browser is north. You can see then if you have a south or north facing garden. If its your backdoor that faces downwards to 6 o'clock your in luck, you have a south facing garden. If your front door points downwards you have a north facing garden.
Granted it won't mean as much on a house with a big garden, but if you have an average two / three bed (even four) detached or semi with fencing of around 5 ft high, you might find it gets very little light and worse still you might be fighting off damp.
We are currently in a 'norther' small two bed rental (have now put in an offer in a nice three bed) and we have a lot of issues with mildew on the back windows and even the walls if we don't keep on top of it.
Once you have found it, keep it on the top down perspective (not streetview).
12 o'clock / up in your web browser is north. You can see then if you have a south or north facing garden. If its your backdoor that faces downwards to 6 o'clock your in luck, you have a south facing garden. If your front door points downwards you have a north facing garden.
Granted it won't mean as much on a house with a big garden, but if you have an average two / three bed (even four) detached or semi with fencing of around 5 ft high, you might find it gets very little light and worse still you might be fighting off damp.
We are currently in a 'norther' small two bed rental (have now put in an offer in a nice three bed) and we have a lot of issues with mildew on the back windows and even the walls if we don't keep on top of it.
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I would have thought everyone checks in advance whether their potential home has a north or south facing garden? Thats the first thing I do to eliminate it!0
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I would have thought everyone checks in advance whether their potential home has a north or south facing garden? Thats the first thing I do to eliminate it!
Admit I never thought of it as I was so taken in by how nice the place is. Lucky for me its south facing (the agent mentioned it). I guess this is for people not so smart like me.0 -
Surely everybody already knows that up on a map is north and down is south?0
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We are currently in a 'norther' small two bed rental (have now put in an offer in a nice three bed) and we have a lot of issues with mildew on the back windows and even the walls if we don't keep on top of it.
But if the front of the house faced north instead, then the front would have mildew etc. just the same!0 -
Which one in the pic is your house?0
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At least one side of every house is always going to point North!0
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Next time find a property where all the walls face south!0
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Even better use http://www.suncalc.net/ insteadWhen using the housing forum please use the sticky threads for valuable information.0
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