Survey has come back and it has highlighted some potential issues with woodworm and with damp. Got to get more extensive investigations completed (along with quotes for any remedial work needed) and then we can go back to vendor and talk about whether our offer stays the same.
Quotes, fortunately, cost about £80 each and naturally we need to get a couple for comparison purposes - just in the nick of time as I was beginning to feel like this whole move wasn't costing me enough unnecessary expense.
Worse case scenario is the replacement of all the ground floor floorboards, the replacement of some timbers in the roof, the implementation of a damp proof course and a woodworm treatment throughout the house. Along with, of course, redecoration as a consequence of all the damp, etc (but that would've happened regardless). Best case scenario is that we just need to dry out a few rooms, put in a damp proof course, treat some isolated woodworm activity and redecorate.
Oh, hold on - no, worse case scenario is actually that there's loads of work to do, the vendor won't drop their price and we have to pull out. Let's not think about that for the moment.
We should know more in about a week or so.
Nadira and I went away at the weekend for a glorified piss-up. Sayed at the Hotel Du Vin in Harrogate, drank champagne and watched that Lesbian Serbian romp the Eurovision. Highly recommend the hotel and the town if you're in the market for an extremely flash night away with your significant other. Cost a tidy sum, mind.
Still can't believe Ukraine were robbed on Saturday - that transvestite Timmy Mallett look-a-like seemed a shoe-in. Bet Old Compton Street was like The White Hart in Bristol the night Germany knocked England out of Euro '96.
Quotes, fortunately, cost about £80 each and naturally we need to get a couple for comparison purposes - just in the nick of time as I was beginning to feel like this whole move wasn't costing me enough unnecessary expense.
Worse case scenario is the replacement of all the ground floor floorboards, the replacement of some timbers in the roof, the implementation of a damp proof course and a woodworm treatment throughout the house. Along with, of course, redecoration as a consequence of all the damp, etc (but that would've happened regardless). Best case scenario is that we just need to dry out a few rooms, put in a damp proof course, treat some isolated woodworm activity and redecorate.
Oh, hold on - no, worse case scenario is actually that there's loads of work to do, the vendor won't drop their price and we have to pull out. Let's not think about that for the moment.
We should know more in about a week or so.
Nadira and I went away at the weekend for a glorified piss-up. Sayed at the Hotel Du Vin in Harrogate, drank champagne and watched that Lesbian Serbian romp the Eurovision. Highly recommend the hotel and the town if you're in the market for an extremely flash night away with your significant other. Cost a tidy sum, mind.
Still can't believe Ukraine were robbed on Saturday - that transvestite Timmy Mallett look-a-like seemed a shoe-in. Bet Old Compton Street was like The White Hart in Bristol the night Germany knocked England out of Euro '96.
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