House has Japanese Knotweed

trigger_fish

spadoosh wrote: »

I would look at another house.

The resentment from any neighbours who might or might not be able to sell their properties. The ability for you to be able to sell. The process of dealing with it and managing it. All problems i'd imagine most people dont need to be having.

If the house is a steal which means something is affordable that might otherwise not be then it might be worth it. But then if your that close to the line with affording it i'd have to point out the additional cost of rectifying the issue.

Ok it might not be a huge problem to some and can be manageable. But its a bit like having a graveyard in your back garden, its a massive undesirable characteristic of a property.

The way i see it is you wouldnt buy a house without a roof, you dont buy a house with japanese knotweed. I know im adding to the scare stories. But they do exist and its a very known problem when it comes to getting finance for a place that has japanes knotweed.

Plus youll have no comeback if you have issues dealing with it. Youll have bought with full knowledge there is a problem.

I'll have to have a look at where I used to live whether people are managing to sell theirs.

Rambosmum

We bought a house with JKW. We had three different mortgages on it in the time we had JKW (didn't know what it was, so didn't get it treated).


None of the providers gave a flying fig about it. Once we knew what it was, we got it treated - £499 total cost including 10y guarantee.

spadoosh

Rambosmum wrote: »

We bought a house with JKW. We had three different mortgages on it in the time we had JKW (didn't know what it was, so didn't get it treated).


None of the providers gave a flying fig about it. Once we knew what it was, we got it treated - £499 total cost including 10y guarantee.

Out of curiousity when where your mortgages?

Why did you spend £499 on something no one cares about?

trigger_fish

EachPenny wrote: »

Does the friend know enough to be sure?

Remember, you can sue a surveyor or solicitor who gets it wrong. Suing a friend is not so easy.

I'd have thought you'd sue the surveyor who missed its presence.

moneyistooshorttomention

trigger_fish wrote: »

I'd have thought you'd sue the surveyor who missed its presence.

A lot of us would like to sue the surveyors we had on our houses for what they didnt tell us about that's very "basic"/obvious to us as laypeople (now that we know).

Myself - need to totally rewire
Two friends moved to this area at same time - JK in the garden.

Somehows it aint so easy to sue these dud surveyors...:cool::mad:

cloo

LOL! If it's bindweed it's no more of a threat than dandelions, but more annoying as it does get around. I *was* wondering how come you would have seen JK at this time of year - you might have some dried-out sticks coming straight out of the ground, but no more than that in winter. They don't look at all alike.

You still haven't said who identified it as JK, by the way

spadoosh

dllive wrote: »

AH!! I just heard back from a friend and theyve identified it as bind weed! (apparently they look similar). This is better yes? Does bindweed cause any headaches like knotweed?

cloo wrote: »

You still haven't said who identified it as JK, by the way

Their mate, Dave.

ProDave

As I have said before, you can treat it yourself. Buy a back pack sprayer and glyphosphate weed killer like Gallup 360.

Do NOT cut it. Spray regularly and persistently, it may take years, but spraying it will stop the spread and eventually kill it. Just keep on and on spraying regularly until it does not come back.

chappers

ProDave wrote: »

As I have said before, you can treat it yourself. Buy a back pack sprayer and glyphosphate weed killer like Gallup 360.

Do NOT cut it. Spray regularly and persistently, it may take years, but spraying it will stop the spread and eventually kill it. Just keep on and on spraying regularly until it does not come back.

yep that's what I did managed to irradicate a decent sized patch probably 10sqm.
First up absolutely doused it at maximum strength, until it withered back, then removed it all, as it sprouted again would let it form a few leaves and then douse it again, eventually the root runs out of food and it dies.

iammumtoone

It is really that bad.

I used to play with the stuff as a kid :eek: loads of it was growing wild. We would break off the hollow stems and use them as swords :rotfl:. We would take the 'swords' back to our parents houses to play with in the gardens. As far as I am aware it never spread in the gardens we brought it back to.