no garage door keys?

Kavanne

Thanks but I still think I will call a pro!

barnaby-bear

Kavanne wrote: »

Yeah I will but we didn't want to have to do it RIGHT NOW, especially as we want to replace the garage door which is gonna be expensive

Calling a locksmith tomorrow. Can I just go and give them the current keys, ask them to replace locks and choose what with, let them go over there of their own accord and go and get the new keys once it's done? (not moving in for like 4 wks)

How to turn a £12 job into a £100 one.... I'd love to know how much a locksmith charges for this.

lindens

Kavanne wrote: »

We aren't living there atm which is why I am worried about people being able t o get into the garage

Whats in the garage if you haven't moved in yet? if its empty just leave the door open anyway and people can see its empty and wont bother trying to force the door anyway.

Kavanne

No reply yet from the vendor... not impressed.

All my neighbours are going on about how lovely she was but I really haven't got that impression!

PS The garage door gave up yesterday, even though I was being really careful with it as I knew it wasn't 100% healthy.

Everything else OK though lol

clutton_2

"" All my neighbours are going on about how lovely she was but I really haven't got that impression!"

a lost key - a broken lock - and you get THIS upset - god help you if there is a REAL crisis !!!

Kavanne

Well I am a bit disappointed seeing as everything was in working order when I viewed the place (twice)

Never bought a house before, was expecting everything to be perfect! How silly and naive of me!!

No flamin pls.

(PS again; I am sorting it out! Garage door repairer coming on Mon (but I don't know if it would be more economical to just replace?) and locksmith coming on Tues. Fitting net curtains ourselves on Sun (apparently people have been looking in the window))

PasturesNew

Kavanne wrote: »

Never bought a house before, was expecting everything to be perfect! How silly and naive of me!!

No house is ever perfect. The older it is the longer it's had for the previous owners to bodge, paper over, ignore or paper over problems.

I think when I bought my last house it had 200 things wrong ... and when I left, having spent £20,000 it still had 150. As fast as you fix things, more will go wrong.

Sometimes things only "last" as the previous owner got used to doing things a certain way over the years of deterioration, a new owner comes along and grabs/uses a fitting slightly different and that's the end of that.

My friend was selling her house and her boiler blew up. Her buyers were lucky as she forked out for a brand new boiler. They were FTBs and she said she'd hate to have it pack up if she just fixed it because it'd cost a lot to replace it.... but she didn't have to and most people wouldn't have.

The stuff you've found is minor. Really. So tiny tinsy winsy minor it's not worth doing anything beyond a shrug of the shoulders, a tut of "typical" under your breath at the time before adding it to the list of things to get done soonest.

Good luck with the rest.