Vendor mis-representation

kerri_gt

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

...and, then again, there are houses that are advertised as having gardens that are "easy to maintain".

Now that part of the description of my current house I soon read past. I've realised that EA's use that phrase to mean "concrete patio flags"/concrete/tarmac and even gardens like that do need some maintenance work (all the weeds that come up in between the concrete patio flags for instance).

Anyway - I soon translated that personally into "Right - that means a lot of work (and expenditure) coming up to turn it into a proper garden then....."

Personally - I'd have been glad if all I had to deal with was the garden basically being a large expanse of grass to start with....

Or 'courtyard garden' generally meaning 'tiny area of flagstones just big enough to store your bins on one perhaps put a BBQ if you want to sit on top or aforementioned bins'

That said, we've recently moved, and I would say our garden is bigger than the prev house with lawn...prev house was mature boarders and no grass. New garden is 100 times less work, mow lawn, bag of cuttings, job done. Prev garden could easily be a whole day cutting back overgrown shrubs (prev occupant let them get to big so I cut them back over a number of seasons, and my some were fast growers). Then 3-4 trips to the tip. Am loving just having a lawn to mow even if the garden isn't as pretty (1/2 is bare soil so will be dealt with at a later date)

TadleyBaggie

Since you don't have to mow the lawn from October to April, I think that the yearly average will be every two weeks. So the vendor was quite correct.

lincroft1710

TadleyBaggie wrote: »

Since you don't have to mow the lawn from October to April

Lawns start growing in March and continue right almost to November.

Davesnave

TadleyBaggie wrote: »

Since you don't have to mow the lawn from October to April, I think that the yearly average will be every two weeks. So the vendor was quite correct.

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Lawns start growing in March and continue right almost to November.

You beat me to it!

Those of us who don't live up 'oop norf' hardly have time to service the mower between seasons these days.

Anyway, November to the end of March is chainsaw season....:rotfl:

Riggyman

She's offered me £100 a month pro-rata for a max 5 years. :beer:

G_M

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moneyistooshorttomention

Now we know for 100% certain this thread is definitely a wind-up one.

bigbulldog

Riggyman wrote: »

She's offered me £100 a month pro-rata for a max 5 years. :beer:

What a load of crap just to save face for a really stupid thread that you started.

Btw the garage where I purchased my car said and promised that if I have to put petrol in my car more than once a month they would reimburse me the difference and on cleaning if it got dirty they would send a car valeter round once a month on a pro rats basis.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Apodemus

Riggyman wrote: »

She's offered me £100 a month pro-rata for a max 5 years. :beer:

Ok, now that you have started the process of successfully monetising your garden...

Step 2 is to sue the gardener who provided you with false information on the gardening requirements (they will have indemnity insurance and I'm sure the insurance company will be as compliant as the vendor has been).

Step 3 (if you don't fancy any of the constructive suggestions already posted) is to start a garden share project in your area (see http://www.transitiontowntotnes.org/groups/food-group/gardenshare/how-to-start/ ). Always plenty of people wanting access to land for allotments.

Detroit

Riggyman wrote: »

She's offered me £100 a month pro-rata for a max 5 years. :beer:

Pro rata? In what way?

£100 per month split between you pro rata on the percentage strength of you respective cases?

That would seem very fair. £100 to her, £0 to you.