New "Have a Look at This" thread

Abbafan1972

FreeBear said:

Silvertabby said:

Abbafan1972 said:

FreeBear said:

edgex said:

We heard you like cheap ugly brick, so we put brick on the inside as well!
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149585414#/?channel=RES_BUY

Previous owner also had a radiator fetish. Pic 11, the entire length of that internal wall is covered by radiator.

And a pond trust ripe for a Bag for Life

Just awful. Kitchen is way too narrow, garden is depressing. 

The house on the right of front elevation photo looks like an extension added on, but on the garden photo they are separated by a fence. 

Also, one of my pet hates is there’s no access to the back garden other than through the house. 

It's unusual for a house of that type/era era not to have access to the back garden.  Looking at the attached 'semi' on streetview, I wonder if the house was originally detached, then had a (very) badly designed extension added, then was later split into seperate houses.

ADD.
If you go onto street view, and look at the house immediately opposite, that is a detached at the end of a row of semis, with a good bit of land at the side.  Am now convinced that the house in this thread was also originally a detached before being ruined.

Spin round and have a look at the house opposite - That one is a detached (with a modest side extension), so you are probably correct.

Yes, you can see it all more clearly. The house on this thread is numbered 1 and the “extension” is number “1A”. 

daivid

Dandie89 said:

joho said:

do they count?

Of course not.  They probably don't read either.

Don’t be so sure https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5306232/ (use 'go to' ‘numerical abilities' if not interested enough to read the whole article 🤣). There is some evidence that chickens can count, or discriminate at least, between groups of up to 5 objects. No evidence I'm aware of that they can read, so either they can’t or they are keeping it under their hats (metaphorically obviously, as a chicken in a hat would be ridiculous!).

FreeBear

daivid said: (metaphorically obviously, as a chicken in a hat would be ridiculous!).

..........

YoungBlueEyes

Gawd that made me laugh @FreeBear! What if the chicken couldn't wear a hat... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

Patr100

Owain_Moneysaver said:

Here is a naice house. I know it's naice because they've got glass worktop savers everywhere
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149637728

They still use a discoloured yellow bog-brush though. I think that little touch of normality makes the house seem more ... accessible to those of us on smaller budgets. 

Sockets on skirting boards either shows it's age  or someone's bodged it more recently. Too low for current regs  and a potential fire hazard.

silvercar

Patr100 said:

Owain_Moneysaver said:

Here is a naice house. I know it's naice because they've got glass worktop savers everywhere
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149637728

They still use a discoloured yellow bog-brush though. I think that little touch of normality makes the house seem more ... accessible to those of us on smaller budgets. 

Sockets on skirting boards either shows its age  or someone's bodged it more recently. Too low for current regs  and a potential fire hazard.

But no requirement to change sockets on the skirting board just for a rewire. 

mark_cycling00

Copied this from a "certain" Reddit thread...

Here's a lovely house with immaculately restored oak beams, beautiful gardens, stylish bathroom and kitchen. What could possibly go wrong?

The streetview selected by the agent is an old sewer with a rough sleeper, some firepits and garbage bags. Not even that close to the actual property 

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149718974#/?channel=RES_BUY

joho

Spot the EAs (just).

Photos of Frinton Road, Kirby Cross, Frinton-On-Sea CO13 - 67729179 | PrimeLocation

Photos of Merrow Avenue, Poole BH12 - 67729162 | PrimeLocation

Photos of Rayleigh Drive, Leigh-On-Sea SS9 - 67731534 | PrimeLocation

Slinky

FreeBear said:

daivid said: (metaphorically obviously, as a chicken in a hat would be ridiculous!).

..........

Many years ago on a holiday in San Francisco we were treated to the sight of a homeless man wearing a rasta hat with a chicken perched on the top of it.

bobster2

Patr100 said:

Sockets on skirting boards either shows it's age  or someone's bodged it more recently. Too low for current regs  and a potential fire hazard.

If sockets on the skirting board warrant an entry in the "have a look at this" thread we'll have half the houses in the country on here.

Old houses with sockets in the skirting board typically have lath and plaster walls full of timber - so not sure how much moving a socket up the wall would reduce the fire risk.