The Nice People No. 17

PasturesNew

In our house (1970-95), for hot water, we didn't have an immersion tank.  Upstairs we had a big gas geyser mounted above the bath taps.  In the kitchen we had a small water heater mounted above the draining board, which I'm sure was also gas. 

silvercar

Project for michaels or doozer.

Found it on the "look at this". Nearly £1m in St Albans, what could go wrong? I suspect the car in picture 3 is included in the price.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew said:

In our house (1970-95), for hot water, we didn't have an immersion tank.  Upstairs we had a big gas geyser mounted above the bath taps.  In the kitchen we had a small water heater mounted above the draining board, which I'm sure was also gas. 

Wow.  My grandad used to to use the word 'geyser' to refer to the immersion heater and I've not heard it since.  He died in 1985. 

Pyxis

PasturesNew said:

In our house (1970-95), for hot water, we didn't have an immersion tank.  Upstairs we had a big gas geyser mounted above the bath taps.  In the kitchen we had a small water heater mounted above the draining board, which I'm sure was also gas. 

That sounds just like our set-up!
I was scared of the big bath geyser as a small child. When you turned on the hot tap,  the burners lit up with a whoosh! and so I refused to sit up the geyser end of the bath. 

Interestingly, geyser, spelled geysir, is Icelandic for their hot springs that jet out of the ground.

michaels

silvercar said:

Project for michaels or doozer.

Found it on the "look at this". Nearly £1m in St Albans, what could go wrong? I suspect the car in picture 3 is included in the price.

Oops - decided it was a plot for a McMansion way outside my means when @I saaw it a few days ago.  950 for the site, 350 for a 5 bed, another 100 to fit it out with suitable brand kitchen etc and you have something worth 1.5 - not worth it for the profit.

ukmaggie45

OH and I had a gas geyser in our first flat. It was pretty scary as the pilot light tended to blow out. I sometimes wonder how we survived to old age!  The gas fire in the bedroom was ancient. It had gorgeous tiles all round it - wish I'd taken a photo. Suspect it was the original fire from when the house was first built. Somewhere around 1900 at a guess - the local Unitarian Church on the same road opened in 1899.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ullet_Road_Unitarian_Church

silvercar

michaels said:

silvercar said:

Project for michaels or doozer.

Found it on the "look at this". Nearly £1m in St Albans, what could go wrong? I suspect the car in picture 3 is included in the price.

Oops - decided it was a plot for a McMansion way outside my means when @I saaw it a few days ago.  950 for the site, 350 for a 5 bed, another 100 to fit it out with suitable brand kitchen etc and you have something worth 1.5 - not worth it for the profit.

Doubt they will get anywhere near 950k, more like 750k would be my guess, that is if it even sells.

PasturesNew

Nothing coming up this morning.... mostly flats. Those that aren't flats are mid terraces and/or in places I've no wish to be. 

One bungalow popped up in budget this morning.... trouble is it's been on since April 2019 with three agents, slowly dropping from £340k, to £330k, to £315k and now £298k.  Its garden's north though.  No garage/no side drive. No conservatory.  So the only thing it has going for it is: Bungalow, in budget.  Not even the right area; it's in an area designated as "only if something truly nice looking comes up and can tick most other boxes except preferred area". 

michaels

For some reason the do-er up-er got a lot of hits.

https://www.hertsad.co.uk/property/fixer-upper-on-jennings-road-st-albans-1-6528281

PasturesNew

"270ft long and 52ft wide"
You could easily get 15 houses in there.