Next time ...

bouicca21

I'd have realised how desperate the vendor was to sell and gazundered him.

TuppenceWorth

"Try not to get divorced 6 months after moving lol!

I wouldnt place my happiness on the house I was in, rather the important things in life. If things fall through, so be it. Chill with it all. Life's too short."


I ilke this one.
Make sure your foundations are solid first.

SeasideSally

Next time...

If we have colds, we'll wait until they clear up before viewing houses. The one we bought stank, and we had no idea. Took months to get the smell out of the walls/ceilings/floors/woodwork.

Choose a place based on its atmosphere/personality. It's a hard thing to change, unlike kitchen cabinets and flooring.

cybervic

Next time I will do an EICR to make sure all electric cable are safe and able to do have some minor change. Our flat is now costing us thousands of £££ to get the electric right because it had been badly patched over the last 20 years.

Next Time I will get an asbestos survey, so that we know beforehand what we can/can't touch so we could plan better.

Next time I will check how good/bad the water pressure and flow rate (they are different appparantly) from ALL taps. Right now we can't have a combi boiler unless we spend £££ to get mains pipe replaced and fit a pump to improve flow rate.

MaMoneyMaMoney

I don't have anything to add because for me the next time will be my first time. But because this forum doesn't support the "follow thread" feature, the only way to get notifications out of this one is to comment. So here I am.

But thank you all for your comments. This is certainly helping me out.

Davesnave

MaMoneyMaMoney wrote: »

because this forum doesn't support the "follow thread" feature, the only way to get notifications out of this one is to comment.

If you type 12 letters of gobbledegook, post them and then delete them, you are subscribed.

toniq

You can go to thread tools (above the first post) and click on subscribe then you get notifications without needing to comment.




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SmashedAvacado

My key bit of advice is that properties (other than new builds) fall into four buckets

1) those that have been done up by developers prior to sale - these will have lots of bodges and rarely will much of what has been done be high quality

2) those that have been done up by the current owners and look lovely - these will have lots of bodges and not be as nice once you're in them than they look when you are viewing. These will cost you the same in renovations as (3) but be more expensive to buy and you will end up doing more to them than you had planned

3) those that havent been done up by the current owners and ok - these will have lots of bodges. These will cost you the same in renovations as (2) but be more less expensive to buy

4) those that clearly need doing up - you assume everything needs doing and its a pleasant surprise when something works and has plenty of life in it.

(go for 3 and 4)

hazyjo

Would also be checking drains (got a major prob), and water pressure. Ours is shockingly bad. Even flushing either loo you have to stand there going 'c'mon, you can do it...'. Such effort to even complete a flush lol. Kitchen sink tap is rubbish, flow terrible and it's one of those 'taps/handles' which you have to push backwards and outwards for cold. Only they put it too near the wall for it to push back properly so I'm never sure if our cold water is actually cold or mixed a bit with the warm. Eww.


Never did find out why we have to pull the bathroom light three times for it to work (any ideas?), nor why we have to lift the back of the bathroom loo slightly on one side in order for it to re-fill each time it's used.


I suppose many houses have their quirks which you'll never really get to find out about until you're actually in. If I'd have flushed the loo, it would have worked and I'd not have thought to try it again 10 mins later (in which case I'd have found out about the 'lift the lid' situation).

DoaM

Another one in a similar vein ... if the shower is a mixer type, run the shower until you've got a decent flow and temperature, then flush the loo - check if the shower flow/temperature changes much.