I just bought a house!

Phirefly

PasturesNew wrote: »

Who cares how long it takes.

Sounds like a plan...

Pop Phirefly's an architect, so my grand scheme's been taking shape since I was a 3ft ginger scamp pouring over his blueprints in awe. Shame he had a mid life crisis and ran away to the south coast with a fully paid up God Botherer and my inheritance....

Doozergirl

I just found it on the channel 4 website. That is an absolute stunner of a house!

Phirefly

Doozergirl wrote: »

I just found it on the channel 4 website. That is an absolute stunner of a house!

Aye. I love the massive window in the rear roofline gable....

Doozergirl

Datasafe wrote: »

I gathered from the Rightmove map and a quick visit to the environment agency that it was ok (OK-ish. Its a bit close for me personally) .

3. STABILISATION WORKS

What does this mean? There were bad floods in 2001 IIRC

It just worries me a bit when people buy at auction, you exchange straight away and can easily be stuck with a right dog. You only have to watch "home under the hammer" on TV to see that.

I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that we did all our homework :rolleyes:, that I already have a nice fat solicitor's bill and that I know all about the stabilisation work which was to the top of the gable end of the garage - part of the original building which hasn't yet been converted. No major issue for us at all. We've rebuilt gable ends before and we will have a bricky in to do plenty of work anyhow. I would like to lose the ties (which is what it is - they are clearly visable) and we have to build an inner skin and insulate anyway, along with rest of the work that goes with converting property.

And this is Worcestershire. It's pretty flat. People still live here! The Severn floods all the time and the flood plains are wide for a reason. We had loads of flooding around us. My son had to be brought from school on a tractor and we had to hitch lifts on another tractor and a land rover to get home. Our house was fine of course but areas which hadn't seen flooding before certainly did last year - our area caught much of the brunt, though Gloucestershire did pretty well

PasturesNew

First thing everybody's done is google for floods, check environment agency site ... not sure if they all care lots for you, or trying to catch you out!

Doozergirl

Phirefly wrote: »

Aye. I love the massive window in the rear roofline gable....

Yeah, mine's falling down due to flooding apparantly. Maybe I'll do that too.

(Seriously - they're stunning - someone with a beautiful imagination designed that!)

Datasafe_2

I'm not trying to catch anyone out and I just asked what the stabisation works were that was all.

Doozergirl

Datasafe wrote: »

I'm not trying to catch anyone out and I just asked what the stabisation works were that was all.

Is that why you thought it was funny when you showed a picture of flooding?

I think you might be cheaper than my solicitor - could you put me together a quote please?

Davesnave

Congratulations - I envy your Worcestershire soil; brilliant for gardening.

Anyone who 'does' barns knows that stabilisation, reinforcement of foundations, or whatever, is a possibility - they didn't have building regs in those days & these were animal shelters after all. At least you are not on a serious slope. Too many barns I've been shown, 'ripe for development,' have been off on their own down the hill!

merlinthehappypig

You are o.k. in that part of Kempsey. To my knowledge it hasn't flooded there. The worst you might expect is that you can't get back to your house because of flooded roads, but the actual house and garden will be fine.

My best friend lives in Kempsey and it's not a million miles away from where we are buying.

Looks a nice house at a good price. Well done.