harrycatcat1 Posted April 7, 2021 Report Share Posted April 7, 2021 8 hours ago, Fatcatsplat said: Couldn't you just supply the tenants with socks and jumpers? 🤣🤣🤣👍👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashman Posted April 7, 2021 Report Share Posted April 7, 2021 Consider who will be the likely tenants of flats in the area you describe, particularly, if managed by social housing-type managers. Lots of running repairs... However, yields are low, but pretty safe. Instead, consider letting to vulnerable tenants - there are specialist managers. The fit & fittings must be prison-quality, but yields are much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piebob Posted April 7, 2021 Report Share Posted April 7, 2021 10 hours ago, henry d said: Scotland were just about to go with hard wired smoke, heat and CO detection in ALL housing Interlinked, not necessarily hard-wired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted April 7, 2021 Report Share Posted April 7, 2021 10 hours ago, stumpy69 said: They dont have to be hard wired. They do have to be interlinked (this can be wireless) That's what I meant, sorry only had my first cuppa and was busy on the porcelain so I was struggling in a couple of areas 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisheruk Posted April 7, 2021 Report Share Posted April 7, 2021 If you are converting to two flats you’ll need Building Regulation and probably Planning Approval. If you take the plaster off the outside walls they will need upgrading with Thermal Insulation to comply with Part L Building Regulations 2010 standard. Are the external walls cavity or solid brick/stone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
udderlyoffroad Posted April 8, 2021 Report Share Posted April 8, 2021 11 hours ago, henry d said: That's what I meant, sorry only had my first cuppa and was busy on the porcelain so I was struggling in a couple of areas 👍 Thanks for the mental image - As your avi is Farage, my mind's eye pictured old Nige on the throne, tapping away furiously on PW on his smart phone. 😁 Am sure @Scully looks like in real life NF too. Annnyway, as the OP is rewiring and it will be rental, it'd be as well to do hard-wired. Likely fewer issues than wireless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted April 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 Alrighty, so we completed our purchase today. I’m not sure how to post large photos or video files following photobucket shutting up shop. Anyhoos here’s a photo of the bog - it’s since been cleaned out by specialists 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted April 29, 2021 Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 Oh my god 😅😅😅. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted April 29, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 There were a number of very valid reasons why it was cheap 😆😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted April 29, 2021 Report Share Posted April 29, 2021 It's hard to believe that someone was actually living like that , but some folks just do😲. Fair play to you for taking it on. Many years ago , I was running the waste management in a busy town centre . I'd sometimes tag along with the litter patrols to see how things were going. I went out with one of the lads on a Monday morning, to litter pick a pretty rough street just outside the town centre . He picked up a bucket with a lid on outside one of the houses ,and put it into a bin bag , to be collected by the pick up driver . I was curious and asked what it was , he said, it's a bucket of xxxx , I collect it twice each week . I asked him how long he'd been collecting it for , and he thought about it for a minute said, sixteen years 😅😅😅. I had environmental health at the house before lunchtime , and the guy didn't have to collect buckets of xxxx any more 😅. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hicky Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 Have you bought it to live in or an investment property? That would be my first indicator of how far I’d be pushing the budget for works and what I’d be prepared to put up with if the house was for me. Depending how much work the walls needed i’d be insulating them, take out the sash and eBay them. Bung in a reasonable combo and a multi fuel. Worry about future proofing later/someone else’s problem. If it was for renting, I’d spend the bare min as most likely some feckless tit will ruin the hard work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
udderlyoffroad Posted May 19, 2021 Report Share Posted May 19, 2021 Any update on this @Mungler? What did you decide re central heating. Asking for a friend 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted May 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2021 It’s all go. I’ll do a photo casebook over the weekend. It’s shaping up nicely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bavarianbrit Posted May 20, 2021 Report Share Posted May 20, 2021 On 07/04/2021 at 09:03, Scully said: I’d think twice before destroying the original sash windows, at around the 500 quid mark to make they may be worth something to someone. If you’re insulating your loft, joists between floors and if you can get any in the walls, it would be worth looking for a firm which injects Warmcel or Isoflock, much much better insulation than anything else out there. Almost sure to be a single wall house at that age with the shot damp proof course to boot. We were about to rip the downstairs crapp y floorboards out and put in an insulated underfloor heating concrete membrane on one wreck we bought for 132K in 2018 but I sold the house before starting the work as we could not get the trades to commit to doing the works, sold it for 112K end of 2020, you live and learn. Council tax is zero if the kitchen and bathroom are non existent for the first year then it rockets to double the normal yearly price afterwards to push renovations forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted October 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2021 (edited) Alright boys and girls. This project is nearing a conclusion and I’m working out where best to put the project photos. Instagram appears to be the easiest place, and so, here it is, the first video and where it all started: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CVgT8VWgo9f/?utm_medium=copy_link https://www.instagram.com/tv/CVgVkLYATRz/?utm_medium=copy_link Apologies for the growling and grunting, that was me trying very hard not to throw up 😆 Edited October 26, 2021 by Mungler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NatureBoy Posted October 26, 2021 Report Share Posted October 26, 2021 Obviously you could see it had a lot of pootential. 🙂🤢 NB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted October 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2021 11 minutes ago, NatureBoy said: Obviously you could see it had a lot of pootential. 🙂🤢 NB And it was cheap enough 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon R Posted October 26, 2021 Report Share Posted October 26, 2021 Quote Regarding the blocked drain/bog. The law changed four plus years ago. No longer do you own the drain until where it reaches the main sewer. Now it is owned by the local water authority the inch that it exits your curtilage. This means the responsibility for maintaining and clearing from that point rests with them. Have you got a link for that? Google suggests it is still the householder up to the boundary of the property. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NatureBoy Posted October 26, 2021 Report Share Posted October 26, 2021 Dirt cheap! 😉 Seen and worked on plenty like it over the years. Any needles n condoms? Or worse, bodies? Worst was where a body had burnt in an arm chair. Leaving ceiling stained and dripping with human grease and fat. No specialist cleaners back then and i was only a boy. Looks like nice old place. NB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted October 27, 2021 Report Share Posted October 27, 2021 I take my hat off to whoever cleaned that mess up 😢. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted October 27, 2021 Report Share Posted October 27, 2021 just seen that picture........... dont feel very well now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted October 27, 2021 Report Share Posted October 27, 2021 11 hours ago, Mungler said: Alright boys and girls. This project is nearing a conclusion and I’m working out where best to put the project photos. Instagram appears to be the easiest place, and so, here it is, the first video and where it all started: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CVgT8VWgo9f/?utm_medium=copy_link https://www.instagram.com/tv/CVgVkLYATRz/?utm_medium=copy_link Apologies for the growling and grunting, that was me trying very hard not to throw up 😆 One of the most memorable posts ever on PW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrycatcat1 Posted October 27, 2021 Report Share Posted October 27, 2021 15 hours ago, Gordon R said: Have you got a link for that? Google suggests it is still the householder up to the boundary of the property. The curtilage is the boundary of the property 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted October 27, 2021 Report Share Posted October 27, 2021 I’ve seen worse! 😂No, I haven’t really! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted November 24, 2021 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2021 (edited) Edited Edited November 24, 2021 by Mungler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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