Fly Away

Both I think!

BTW - at least the house will look lovely for viewers with all the christmas decs up. Cover up all those marks on the walls etc......................

Dan the Plumber

What marks?? Oh you mean the leaking shower that runs down the wall in the lounge??? and i'm a plumber!! Quick lick of paint for each new viewer........

Fly Away

OMG! remind me not to buy a house from a plumber.

Just stick the Christmas tree in front of that bit of wall!

We have a patch of rising damp next to the back door - what Christmas dec would do the job there???

Tiggs+Graz

Evening all!

just wanted to say thanks to everyone for the support - you are all fab

anyway after much going round in circles - we are now onto plan Z.
we have to go across for the job in adelaide - to turn it down would be really daft - so we have to go even if the house isnt sold (i do not really want to be doing this but it cant be helped). this has a whole mountain of complications that i have yet to work out

spoke to the EA again this afternoon - apparently our 'buyers' do really want the house so fingers crossed they sort themselves out so we can proceed.

EA has also arranged a new viewer for tomorrow at 7 - so i have been running around all afternoon trying to tidy and clean the house again - i have been concentrating on sorting rather than tidying over the last couple of weeks so it is a bit of a mess

Tried to get hold of the couple who put our original offer in (the ones who needed to sell) havent been able to get hold of them today hopefully they will get back to us tomorrow but as we havent heard from them we are assuming that they are either not ready to proceed or they have found something else to buy.

phew what a day

Tiggs+Graz

strategically draped tinsel?!
one of those dancing santa thingies?!

i am sure there must be something that would work

Dan the Plumber

Stick a fan heater on it for a couple of days!!! Seriously don't think it would be a big job have seen it done - they drill into cavity (if you have one) and inject some 'stuff' into walls. Or get stuff and do it yourself!! Or leave it and get large plant to hide it, or advent calander, or tinsel, or long wide door curtain, or blow up santa, or .......the list is endless

Dan the Plumber

Oh and have now fixed leaky shower!! Globbed some silicone round shower tray base - job done
Well at least I think it is

Dan the Plumber

Bloody hell sounds like you're having a right time of it! Congrats on the job too - at least you can get gone without having to worry about the house (too much!!) I do think that empty houses are somehow more appealing (I know most EA's would say the opposite) but we bought ours empty and the space!!!!

Fly Away

Hi Tiggs,

Hope you are both OK.

Glad that you have come to a decision. I agree, it would be daft to turn the job down.

Hopefully the idiot buyers will find a new tenant and the problem will be solved. (Although home loans do NOT usually take into account BTL mortgages - tenanted or not. The fact that they have had a tenant in the property paying rent proves that their rentable value is what they state. So I am confused as to why their tenant giving notice is a problem?? Sounds like they are pulling some sort of mortgage scam to me? Also, if they are really keen, they could always get a BTL mortgage on your house.)

The patch is in an awkward place, right above the skirting board and the plaster is salting. Basically I should sand it down and repaint but I don't have the paint they used in the kitchen, so this would mean painting the whole kitchen and I am lazy...........)

I reckon a bucket with holly in it would look good!

Thanks for the hint. I'll certainly try the fan heater trick! The patch is very small. It was caused when the previous owners put a French window in. They must have removed the DPC strip from one brick. We have a salting patch just next to the door frame about the size of a saucer. I have never bothered to get it done as we were planning to knock the wall down anyway! We had all the other damp fixed in the way you describe. (Owners before us were dodgy self builder types and left the house in a big mess....)


Good news!! You won't need the Christmas tree then!

Tiggs+Graz

We are both fine - although it was a shame that we couldnt really feel like celebrating Graz getting the job. At least now we have time to sort things out - if the buyers had dropped out in a month then we would have huge problems.

I have no idea what is going on with their mortgages/tenants - our EA is positive that they still really want our house so i dont think it was just an excuse to pull out - but i dont really know. Just going to try and move on and even if they come back i will certianly be keeping the pressure on the EA to keep sending viewers.

i have a shed full of tins with just a little bit of paint still in the bottom - one for each colour in the house - Graz keeps wanting to throw them out but i keep pointing out to him that they are the different between being able to touch up the paintwork and having to repaint a whole room

could you not just repaint the one wall? - of course in these cases it is always the biggest and most complicated wall that you need to repaint

Fly Away

I could try just painting the one wall - might look dodgy though? Then I'd have to paint the whole room and I'm lazy... as previously stated. LOL.

Glad that you are feeling a bit better. You should really try to enjoy Graz's success - he's a clever bugger!

somme

Well been to dinner with an ex boss, which was lovely.

Tiggs glad you still have the courage to go, great Graz has a job to go to.

See you all in the morning, night x

daunted

Thanks babe - I just needed to step back a bit and am now feeling much more positive. Survey results are back and price wise all good but they want wood and damp survey done. Either could be a potential problem but i have a plan. I am prepared to sell to one of those agencies htat offer 80% of value if i have to so i have a minimum figure to work to, if they drop price any then im going agency route - gettin on with life is worth more than a few grand in the bank. Anyway must go get packed

keeping everything crossed for you again xxxxxxxxxxx

somme

[QUOTE=daunted;5441821]Thanks babe - I just needed to step back a bit and am now feeling much more positive. Survey results are back and price wise all good but they want wood and damp survey done. Either could be a potential problem but i have a plan. I am prepared to sell to one of those agencies htat offer 80% of value if i have to so i have a minimum figure to work to, if they drop price any then im going agency route - gettin on with life is worth more than a few grand in the bank. Anyway must go get packed



Couldn't agree more I am still looking for my guarantee for woodworm treatment

So glad you are feeling more positive

Fly Away

Night Somme, Glad you had a lovely dinner!


Well, if you didn't see my post on the other thread,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Have a great time in Iceland!! It will be wonderful!

if you are still on here - GO AND PACK!

See you next week.