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Estimating a realistic offer price for an unusual 1970s house
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Solid 9" brick walls, so in need of wall insulation. The utility room is only a single skin (4") brick wall, so going to be ruddy freezing in the winter as well as damp. Way too close to the mainline railway for my taste - You'll get disturbed by trains rumbling past at all hours.. On the plus side, you don't have far to go for open fields.the_midnight_Wolfboy said: What do you think of this house? Again needs modernising, but traditional build and more sought after road, it's the other house we are considering, again I feel may be over priced.
5 bedroom detached house for sale in Great Bowden Rd, Market Harborough, LE16 7DG, LE16 (rightmove.co.uk)
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It's a 1950s build, wouldn't it have cavity walls?FreeBear said:
Solid 9" brick walls, so in need of wall insulation. The utility room is only a single skin (4") brick wall, so going to be ruddy freezing in the winter as well as damp. Way too close to the mainline railway for my taste - You'll get disturbed by trains rumbling past at all hours.. On the plus side, you don't have far to go for open fields.the_midnight_Wolfboy said: What do you think of this house? Again needs modernising, but traditional build and more sought after road, it's the other house we are considering, again I feel may be over priced.
5 bedroom detached house for sale in Great Bowden Rd, Market Harborough, LE16 7DG, LE16 (rightmove.co.uk)
You're right the utility and garage at the very least would be freezing!
Are you a fan of the 70s house at the start of the topic? I just think the price for both is a bit punchy0 -
the_midnight_Wolfboy said:
It's a 1950s build, wouldn't it have cavity walls?FreeBear said:
Solid 9" brick walls, so in need of wall insulation. The utility room is only a single skin (4") brick wall, so going to be ruddy freezing in the winter as well as damp. Way too close to the mainline railway for my taste - You'll get disturbed by trains rumbling past at all hours.. On the plus side, you don't have far to go for open fields.the_midnight_Wolfboy said: What do you think of this house? Again needs modernising, but traditional build and more sought after road, it's the other house we are considering, again I feel may be over priced.
5 bedroom detached house for sale in Great Bowden Rd, Market Harborough, LE16 7DG, LE16 (rightmove.co.uk)A 1950s build should be cavity wall construction. But the brick pattern looks like flemish bond, and the window reveals appear to be very narrow. Both of these suggest 9" solid walls to my mind - The EPC claims cavity wall, but these things are full of assumptions and could be wrong.Yes, it is possible to build a cavity wall using flemish bond as a decorative feature, so there might be a cavity there. But I would expect to see nice wide window sills on the inside.
Any language construct that forces such insanity in this case should be abandoned without regrets. –
Erik Aronesty, 2014
Treasure the moments that you have. Savour them for as long as you can for they will never come back again.1 -
Wow thank you for teaching me about this!FreeBear said:Yes, it is possible to build a cavity wall using flemish bond as a decorative feature, so there might be a cavity there. But I would expect to see nice wide window sills on the inside.0
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