Been in our home since May...absolute house of horrors...

Akahotpot

Not so bad if your going to benefit from the repairs long term

I have had the electric garage roller door redone as it didn't fully lift and I'm tall £500
and I've replaced the old heat only CH system with a baxi duotec combi £1800

I moved in June , to be fair both items worked just not well

moneyistooshorttomention

Akahotpot wrote: »

Not so bad if your going to benefit from the repairs long term

I have had the electric garage roller door redone as it didn't fully lift and I'm tall £500
and I've replaced the old heat only CH system with a baxi duotec combi £1800

I moved in June , to be fair both items worked just not well

That probably leaves the majority of us officially very jealous now:rotfl: - at the thought of only 2 jobs to do and about £2,000 to pay for them:(

Akahotpot

oh I've not finished lol

todayisagreatday

Our house is a disaster area but we can console ourselves as long as our planning permission goes through and we can start the big work next year.

In the meantime it's just about coping with the endless oddities and things falling down, in the hope everything will just about see us through til May time when we hope to start the work.. In the past week I changed the loo roll and two rows of tiles fell off the wall, the curtain tracking fell down in the bathroom and hall as all the plaster has perished... Oh and the wasps that have somehow got into the cavity are now coming into the house, on the plus they are kind of dopey now so I can kill them and hopefully they will disappear soon.... We also have a woodlice problem in the bathroom!

A week after moving in my OH had to change their car to something more practical than a Audi TT due to the location over a very narrow and low bridge. Nice new SUV and a bit of windy weather and an apple from the apple tree in the drive fell and smashed the windscreen...... Oh did some cursing that day about that...

SG27

Our house had a single story front extension in the 80s. When we viewed in April the vendors said the extension was cold as they turn the radiators off in that part of the house as they aren't using it much.

We just had a plumber installing new boiler and radiators. He said in the bedroom abutting the extension roof void had a radiator 2 times to big for the room and that they must have been having serious problems heating it. I smashed a hole in the stud wall to check the roof void behind and there was no insulation what so ever. Just a half an inch of plasterboard wall between the bedroom and the freezing cold roof void. Same with the ceiling below! The roof area is very small and cramped and 50% is impossible to access without either removing the roof, or pulling down ceilings... not sure what to do now insulate what I can and hope for the best, or spend a fortune ripping the house apart to do it properly...

beefturnmail

Learn some DIY skills, you can save a fortune. Some stuff you're always going to need to get the pros, but there's a lot you can do yourself just from watching videos on youtube.

faerielight

I bought my 1st home in June, the sellers had done so man bodge jobs which have taken a lot of money to fix, plus things like a water leak under the new oak flooring I had just put down, so had to replace the warped boards, and the boiler died on week 1.

I do have a difficult neighbour/ share of freehold who refuses to give me a contact other than notes under the door, but luckily I rarely see her...

But I am in love with my home, and feel gratitude that I’m never going to be trapped in a bad tenancy with awful disrepair and under the threat of section 21 evictions and the constant fear of homelessness.I can go to sleep feeling safe and secure, and that feeling is worth a new boiler or two

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

That probably leaves the majority of us officially very jealous now:rotfl: - at the thought of only 2 jobs to do and about £2,000 to pay for them:(

Not at all. Look at my comment about contingency and other people's comments about ongoing maintenance. Spending is inevitable, or the eventual result is a 'probate property.'

Choosing between a comfortable, easy to manage house in a good location, or money sitting idly in the bank was a no-brainer for us.

catshark88

Try doing all that in a listed house, that's the definition of pain.... lol. Will be lovely when it's done though (& we've learned which buttons to press on the conservation lady).

Cakeguts

Saving for a deposit is the practice for saving to pay for maintenance. If you own a house you have to save as if you are saving for the deposit all the time you live there so that you can pay for maintenance which goes on for ever. There will always be something.



People think that buying is cheaper than renting because the mortgage is often cheaper than rent but they forget about the fact that they have to pay for maintenance.



You also have to have savings to pay the mortgage if you lose your job or get ill and can't work.