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Homes Under the Hammer
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Second one was a flat in London on Vauxhall Bridge Road, number 10. But I couldn't find it in the LR details.
Third one is an old wreck of a farm in the country and lots of old sheds and outbuildings.
It wasn't safe for them to go in. And it's got PP to demolish/do a new build.
There's also a barn ideal for conversion in the grounds.0 -
The farm got worse.
M6 is one field away and proposed to be widened.
There is a concrete factory up the road.
There is an underground gas storage works started up the road.
Agent reckons the two builds would still pull £1million once built
Auction guide price £350k0 -
My partner despises homes under the hammer. He thinks the bloke is a pervert (I disagree!) and he hates the fact that they have to make up any old !!!! to go with the music i.e. the back room will benefit from a lot of natural sunlight so we go with........
"Lovely Day" by Bill Withers
"Mike has asked his australian friend Shane to help him with the decorating"
Cue......................."Down Under" from Men at Work
GRRGRGRGRGAAARRRGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you haven't noticed this, take a listen to the music and see if it is relevant at all!Savings as of April 2023 Savings account - £26460.50(14474.88)Current account - £2140.24(4576.79)Total - £28600.74(19051.67) £1010 (£65pm CS/BS) £250 CS/BS/JS0 -
I only watch it for that hunky Plymouth auctioneer. I'm quite disappointed if there is nothing in Cornwall or Devon on that day
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I do love the "after" shots though, especially in tiny places. But sometimes it amazes me the trouble they go to - like today in one place they had moved an upstairs wall four inches just to make the bathroom a bit bigger :rolleyes: . I mean could you be bothered, 'cos I'm sure I couldn't.
Know what you mean about the annoying "music" too, and what really bugs me is that repetetive thing they play when the agents are coming to value the place afterwards.
I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe
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PasturesNew wrote: »I had a wall that was artexed. Done by the previous householder, himself, 0 skills. There was no pattern, it was just smoothed on, leaving a "feature" of straight/curved lines every foot or so at all angles.
Is that the stuff with sharp lumps underneath?
My parents moved when I was 5, and my sister was 3, and our bedroom was covered in that stuff. Horrible, it gave us skinned knuckles all the time. I think it was all over the house, and my parents got rid....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
I hate it when I can't quite get the address. Sometimes it's not quite given. Sometimes the auctioneers are just indistinct.
Then, sometimes the sale simply isn't in the LR.
I'm sure some of them lie about their budgets. Today, the bloke had a large 1930s 3-bed semi. Fire damaged. Three separate fires. Ground floor floor so bouncy it was like a trampoline. Turned out thieves had nicked all the copper piping but hadn't turned the water off so water had cascaded down inside for a month, rotting all the timbers.
He was running a team of people and the property was taken right back to the bricks. All walls down, all ceilings down, all floors removed.
He then put it all back, new wiring, new heating system, electrics, glazing, new interior/exterior doors, tidied up the garden, redecorated, bathroom fittings, whole new kitchen.
The lot. £30k.
pfft... yeah, right.. Just didn't want to look a plonker. And I think many of them do that.
Unless that price was costed at trade prices for materials and the tiniest of hourly rates for cheap blokes to do the work. Maybe that's it. And he had a big shed of cheapo stuff always on tap that he kept stored.0 -
Doozergirl wrote: »I'm restricted to cbeebies this morning. I can discuss Gordon the Garden Gnome if you like.
We don't have that, luckily, as we've only got the basic channels!...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Yes, it's supposed to be for ceilings, but seems to have been used quite a bit by people trying to hide bad walls.neverdespairgirl wrote: »Is that the stuff with sharp lumps underneath?
My parents moved when I was 5, and my sister was 3, and our bedroom was covered in that stuff. Horrible, it gave us skinned knuckles all the time. I think it was all over the house, and my parents got rid.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Never seen it. I'll stick with looking at house renovations ta.
I thought a posh bird like you would own 2 TVs!
I'm a relatively posh bird - and we have 1 TV, circa 1990. Works fine!...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
BogOfBabe
"Express Yourself!!" Ha that music...
Now what we want you to do is both walk up the lane together holding clipboards under your arm.....
What amazes me is that someone walks into a property, meant to be for the first time and says something like "oh wow it's a big space" but the cameraman is already filming from INSIDE the property? If it's the first time he's been in his property, how has the cameraman got in?! He's been in already!!!!!
Grrrrr
BenSavings as of April 2023 Savings account - £26460.50(14474.88)Current account - £2140.24(4576.79)Total - £28600.74(19051.67) £1010 (£65pm CS/BS) £250 CS/BS/JS0
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