Bungalows and conservatories

youth_leader

I wonder why the bungalow on that thread isn't selling?  I must say I saw some dreadful places when I was looking, so sad some elderly people live like that.

I'm in a popular NE village on the east coast, and bungalows here are very popular.  I've got 100 sq ft, and the garden is large.  Although I got caught out with the rotten floors here I do feel lucky - but must say 'bungalow legs' is a real thing ( 'are' a real thing?)    I've just been to the cinema and found the couple of steps up to my seat challenging!

lincroft1710

youth_leader said:

I wonder why the bungalow on that thread isn't selling?  I must say I saw some dreadful places when I was looking, so sad some elderly people live like that.

I'm in a popular NE village on the east coast, and bungalows here are very popular.  I've got 100 sq ft, and the garden is large.  Although I got caught out with the rotten floors here I do feel lucky - but must say 'bungalow legs' is a real thing ( 'are' a real thing?)    I've just been to the cinema and found the couple of steps up to my seat challenging!

More likely 100 sq metres

youth_leader

Thank you @lincroft1710, I left a huge railway station with 264 sq m and have had great difficulty moving here, feels like 100 sq foot!

Dustyevsky

thegreenone said:

We are lucky to have ours off the lounge and it's my favourite room - I'm in my chair there now.  We had a very old, wooden one when we moved in and took years to replace it with same footprint but with pitch roof.  Underfloor heating and solar reflective glass in the roof - hindsight we would've had more.   Unfortunately, if we had had a proper roof extension our lounge would be a black hole.

Ours is off the living room, and it was the cheapest way we could get 30m2 of extra space, without needing PP, or having that black hole problem.

We built the foundations, walls, and floor slab to current regs, so if we came into money(!) we could create a 'proper' extension.

The conservatory's turned out better than expected, though, so it'll probably stay for its natural lifetime of about 15-20 years.

youth_leader

I did have a conservatory on my 'nice to have' list when I had to move. 

This bungalow has a lounge/kitchen extension, and patio doors leading to the garden, I had my elderly cat and dog when I bought in March 2021.  The lounge/kitchen had a large lantern in the ceiling and in November 2021 Storm Arwen blew at 78 mph and blew the flat resin roof off.  The lantern stayed put but was being blown about, I thought it was heavy glass and wasn't too worried until I got the roof repaired and the lantern was removed.  I was very surprised to find  it was very brittle thin plastic. I couldn't afford the alternative light sources, so had the hole filled in.

HillStreetBlues

Silvertabby said:

Second this.  There's a huge difference in conservatories, but the cheapest ones, built on a flat pack metal base, seem to give them all a bad name.

Ours was built properly from the ground upwards, starting with the foundations being dug out by a mini digger and concrete laid.  The walls are more (double skin)  brick than glass, with the roof being tinted, thermal glass.  Think hybrid conservatory/orangery.

Bring east facing may help, but we use ours all year round, as a second lounge.  

Wouldn't that pesty thing called gravity stop it being built the other way?

Silvertabby

HillStreetBlues said:

Silvertabby said:

Second this.  There's a huge difference in conservatories, but the cheapest ones, built on a flat pack metal base, seem to give them all a bad name.

Ours was built properly from the ground upwards, starting with the foundations being dug out by a mini digger and concrete laid.  The walls are more (double skin)  brick than glass, with the roof being tinted, thermal glass.  Think hybrid conservatory/orangery.

Bring east facing may help, but we use ours all year round, as a second lounge.  

Wouldn't that pesty thing called gravity stop it being built the other way?

Ha ha, very true!  I just meant proper poured foundations then - working upwards - double skinned brickwork with insulation and quality windows and patio doors then - still working upwards - a tinted, thermal glass roof. 

As opposed to the other end of the scale, which would be the likes of a B&Q DIY flat pack.  Then gravity WOULD be a problem!  

Silvertabby

ReadySteadyPop said:

Silvertabby said:

thegreenone said:

ReadySteadyPop said:

Sapindus said:

Looking for a bungalow for my mother.  Why do so many bungalows have conservatories slapped over bedroom or kitchen windows?  Don't people want fresh air/daylight?  How difficult would it be to knock the conservatory down if we bought one of these monstrosities, would it need planning permission to do so?  No mortgage involved.

because I believe bungalows are quite hard to sell now, 

Not where I live in Surrey!

....or here 'oop north'!

Even though the cost of a 3 bed bungalow is on a par with a 4 bed house, they sell like hot cakes 

Comments on the "Trying to sell for six months" thread are saying the opposite.

Location, Location, Location. 

vic_sf49

I was one that commented on the other thread about bungalows not selling, mind you, houses aren't going much faster either.

Lots of bungalows in my village, as in hundreds (I really should count them to see if it's into the thousands); probably close to half the village are bungalows, and the same in surrounding villages (south of Lincoln). But things usually sell quickly, even though a good proportion need updating from the 70s.

Quite common to see the conservatory off a bedroom too, but in most cases, it's a spare room / study / 2nd living room / something else, as most people don't need 3 bedrooms, which make up the majority of the stock.

ReadySteadyPop

vic_sf49 said:

I was one that commented on the other thread about bungalows not selling, mind you, houses aren't going much faster either.

Lots of bungalows in my village, as in hundreds (I really should count them to see if it's into the thousands); probably close to half the village are bungalows, and the same in surrounding villages (south of Lincoln). But things usually sell quickly, even though a good proportion need updating from the 70s.

Quite common to see the conservatory off a bedroom too, but in most cases, it's a spare room / study / 2nd living room / something else, as most people don't need 3 bedrooms, which make up the majority of the stock.

Spent a couple of days in Lincoln a few days ago, Lincolnshire is truly beautiful and better quality of life I would say than the South Coast where there are also some not so great locations where bungalows are no doubt piling up in the EA`s window.